Example sentences of "something which could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 2 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 3 | The impulse which made Lewis transcribe the dialogue at such length was something which could have been directed into comic fiction . |
| 4 | He noted that the Canberra meeting ‘ is the start of something which could grow into a very significant development not only for the region but for the global economy . ’ |
| 5 | As we have seen , scientia , or scientific knowledge as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from an observation-based study of the natural world . |
| 6 | What caused its collapse was Craig 's conversion to something which could be presented to loyalists as power-sharing . |
| 7 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 8 | That was something which could never be established after this lapse of time . |
| 9 | This last phrase , used in my diary , is a revealing one : cold was n't something imposed on me by anything as trivial as the outside temperature ; it was something which could be controlled from within and by myself alone . |
| 10 | ‘ He obviously enjoys being involved in something which could mark a new stage in his career . |
| 11 | So your managers are free to concentrate on your core business — something which could be a key to your success in the difficult economic times ahead . |
| 12 | In neither case , does the activity of a postman emerge as something which could be good if it existed in isolation . |
| 13 | ONE WOULD not normally think a national awareness day for something which could affect as many as one in three of the population would be necessary . |
| 14 | Was it something which could be conferred , by means of an act of dubbing , or by the issue of a patent ? |
| 15 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 16 | You then begin to build up a story line , a structure and something which could be called interesting and could be the start of interesting idea . |
| 17 | Even though I now encourage my class to use any methods they like , there are still times when I wished I had not said something which could inhibit a pupil 's thinking . |
| 18 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 19 | It is viewed as a ‘ foreign body ’ invading the department , rather than something which could be of potential value . |
| 20 | As for Sylvia , there was something which could be working itself out between his only daughter and this Honourable : whether it would work out well or ill or at all , he wanted to be there to see it develop . |
| 21 | Community care proposals were perceived by many NHS staff as essentially to do with social care , something which could best be left to the local authorities . |
| 22 | ‘ I show you something which could change the face of your world , ’ he said , ‘ but it does not impress you . ’ |
| 23 | The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons . |
| 24 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 25 | And foreseeing that necessity , you made sure that you knew something which could earn you money at need . |
| 26 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 27 | On the other hand the point , for example , that one priest is , is a very distinct possibility , is something which could be expressed in some way I would have thought . |
| 28 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 29 | This impression of " specialness " , of contingency , of the event 's occurrence being something which could not have been taken for granted , disappears in the sentence with -ing . |
| 30 | He accepted that the introduction of a night sleeper was something which could n't be contemplated in their present accommodation because it would involve the carer sleeping in the same room as the plaintiff . |