Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which could well happen , ’ said the Prince — was it possible that he was capable of a strain of malicious humour ? — ‘ whenever parliament meets . |
| 2 | Of course , between now and Thursday something could actually happen . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 4 | But it could just happen , because of the risks Prince Charles takes with his boys . |
| 5 | Peter Gillman suggests that it was not until TV South West made a film ‘ A Trust Betrayed ’ , and consulted Dr Neil Ward of Surrey University , that a plausible explanation for the conflicting evidence of poisoning and the official view that it could not happen came to light . |
| 6 | It could not happen today . |
| 7 | The point is , it could not happen here . |
| 8 | This is not to say that it could not happen . |
| 9 | Oh , it could not happen again . |
| 10 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 11 | The CEGB countered many of the fears expressed about Chernobyl with a simple phrase , ‘ It could n't happen here ’ . |
| 12 | It Could n't Happen Here — A European Perspective |
| 13 | ‘ It could n't happen if you were n't married . |
| 14 | It could n't happen without the permission of the dealer , but he too is a member of that community and he cares what happens there . |
| 15 | How can you reach an acceptable level of data security and stop yourself falling into the ‘ it could n't happen to me ’ trap ? |
| 16 | THE IBM TRAGEDY : IT COULD N'T HAPPEN TO A NICER COMPANY |
| 17 | At the time of marriage there is almost always a sense of , " it could n't happen to us , " but once marital difficulty arises the consideration of divorce as a solution is of itself more easy . |
| 18 | If it could happen like that with you , why should you think it could n't happen with someone else ? |
| 19 | " You said just now — if it could happen like that with us , why should I think it could n't happen between you and somebody else ? |
| 20 | And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them . |
| 21 | I 've never taken it seriously before , because I 've known it could n't happen . |
| 22 | It 's very New York that he is the choice for health guru ; it could n't happen anywhere else ; it 's the way the macrobiotic cookies crumble in this city that never sleeps . |
| 23 | " It could n't happen to me and , even if it does , we have all got to die sometime " is a common self-justification that almost belies belief when it is considered that a life threatening " pleasure " is nothing more than a mere cigarette . |
| 24 | I once met a social worker , this was years ago , I I was gon na say , this could n't happen today , but it probably could , erm , one hopes it could n't happen today , but it probably would happen today , too . |
| 25 | It could n't happen anyway , in the next financial year , it 'd have to be the following financial year . |
| 26 | They said it could never happen , but in an act many will regard as nothing short of vandalism , an outdoor centre has negotiated privately with the owners of Brock Holes quarry in the Peak to place up to 50 bolts to secure a rope handrail across the rock . |
| 27 | They both probably thought it could never happen to them . |
| 28 | Do you think it could never happen to you ? |
| 29 | Well , it could never happen because I think we 're incapable of making a plan like that . |
| 30 | Do n't think it could never happen to your child — every year 300 children in the UK die as a result of accidents at home and a staggering 870,000 are treated in hospital accident and emergency departments . |