Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the problems it was clear that I could emulate to some extent the effect of the shoulder rotation ( shoulder torque ) and movement of the wrist ( wrist torque ) . |
| 2 | Breeze was fond of Schumann , but not so fond that she could listen to him now ! |
| 3 | He knew many people in the village , almost everyone except the newly arrived and the ones who used the village as a dormitory and who worked in Bath or Chippenham or Swindon , but he knew very few that he could classify as friends . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , ’ Athelstan added , ‘ is it possible that I could speak to one of the laundresses ? ’ |
| 5 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 6 | Secondly , it must be said that , from the very start , Christians strained ordinary human language in order to speak of the significance of Christ ; the term Christ was an inclusive term , such that one could speak of persons as being ‘ in Christ ’ . |
| 7 | It was sufficiently central that I could get to my university department or the College in my electric wheelchair . |
| 8 | It seemed impossible that anyone could survive in the middle of that storm of blades . |
| 9 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 10 | Yet Tate , herself a Jamaican , found that her second-generation informants used Jamaican Creole as their in-group language , and sounded so authentic that they could pass for Jamaicans in Jamaica , in her judgement ( personal communication ) . |
| 11 | Harry was convinced that he could account for every train he had accepted . |
| 12 | If this was the only causative factor , there would be little that we could do about it , but there is another side to the coin . |
| 13 | In El Salvador , the peace agreement ended a 60-year period of military dominance by forcing the colonels back into their barracks , and giving guarantees to the left that they could participate in electoral politics without being killed . |
| 14 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 15 | Knowing that half of Scotland had left their cars sitting in the middle of roads to make sure that they could get to the gig is not so much my horror story as the police 's , she chuckled . |
| 16 | There was quite a wide space between stone and stone , but Jenny felt sure that she could jump from one to the other quite easily . |
| 17 | The situation had altered dramatically , but Nivelle remained confident that he could break through German lines with little loss of life . |
| 18 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 19 | A Dry White Season is all that we could ask of a Hollywood movie about South Africa . |
| 20 | Dalton Baldwin 's linchpin accompaniments are all that one could hope for in terms of grace and humour . |
| 21 | Like Pope , Leapor finds one woman who combines all that she could hope for : |
| 22 | And all that she could think about was , why did Josie want her out of the way ? |
| 23 | She had her bath , which seemed to help , washing away her sorrows as well as the accumulated scum of living in a house where , for a female , baths were difficult — she remembered Dr Neil standing in the outhouse in the yard , pouring water over himself , the water running beneath the short door — all that she could see of him being his head and his bare feet . |
| 24 | All that he could think of was to show her his work on the counter and the panelling , which was probably as good as anything that he 'd ever done . |
| 25 | Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more . |
| 26 | That is all that it could afford under this Government . |
| 27 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |
| 28 | I mean the only th there was only about twelve or fourteen that she could cater for fo for a meal , you know , she had her dining room |
| 29 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 30 | The power of the sword was so great that nothing could stand against him . |