Example sentences of "of [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left open the possibility that Girobank , recently privatised , could be made responsible for collecting repayments and chasing defaulters , the number of whom could rise significantly above the Government 's current estimates . |
| 2 | THE BLUEBIRD album is a collection of singing by men most of whom could n't , strictly , sing . |
| 3 | His closest companions on the European Tour are D J Russell and Martin Poxon , neither of whom could be called ‘ category one ’ players . |
| 4 | The Mourabitoun then held a press conference to explain the significance of this new weapon while the correspondents — few of whom could speak Arabic — waited in patience to know the weight of the warhead , its height and range . |
| 5 | Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman , even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen , each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father . |
| 6 | Since the hunt for Dinah began , police investigations have revealed the existence in Britain of almost 2,000 religious organisations , any number of whom could have had representatives or followers at the three-day pop festival . |
| 7 | This day boat is specially designed to carry up to eleven passengers , six of whom could be in wheelchairs . |
| 8 | But halfway through the service the minister spotted three youths who were also being counselled , each of whom could be a possible suicide . |
| 9 | An avid reader of classical literature and a disciple of Tolstoy and Zola , she was a shining-star amongst the thousands of immigrant women in the city of Glasgow , many of whom could neither read or write . |
| 10 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 11 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 12 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 13 | This vicious circle tends to leave a ‘ rump ’ of inhabitants who are unable to run a car , many of whom could be defined as the ‘ transport poor ’ ( this term will be discussed below ) . |
| 14 | Thus two developments could threaten this society of thrifty peasants , most of whom could read and write : the division of holdings — a process that custom prevented in the Basque Provinces — and an assault on the commons that created and sustained the municipal community and the egalitarian society . |
| 15 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 16 | I hated the way it made me feel , someone the sight of whom could contaminate , endanger a baby . |
| 17 | Otherwise there would n't have been a chance for someone with such a large family , almost any of whom could have taken her in . |
| 18 | Bulimia does not mean " to force vomit " , Some compulsive overeaters ( all of whom could be termed sufferers from bulimia ) use enforced vomiting further to control their emotional feelings and also to protect themselves against the consequence of obesity — but not all do so . |
| 19 | The former ruling centrist PMDB , still the largest single party , together with the centre-left PSDB , had a combined total of 146 deputies , not all of whom could be guaranteed to support Collor 's reform programmes . |
| 20 | The move affected several thousand former members of parliament and public officials , many of whom could be expected to take part in the presidential and legislative elections in 1992 . |
| 21 | In so far as the general picture is intelligible , it appears that we are dealing with a group of warlords in the north , some of whom could claim to be upholding Roman jurisdiction . |
| 22 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 23 | Par of me could n't give a monkeys about the entire operation . |
| 24 | ‘ Your opinion of me could n't be lower , could it ? ’ she said bitterly . |
| 25 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 26 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 27 | Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining : these were the rules of the game , and the two of them could only be patient . |
| 28 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 29 | Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike . |
| 30 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |