Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 2 | Joy shrank behind her father , praying that she could disappear altogether . |
| 3 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 4 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 5 | A year ago Dorothy had been in the first , ominous stages of her illness , furiously denying that anything could be wrong , her normal ill temper exacerbated by discomfort and increasing disability . |
| 6 | Marvelling that anyone could say this without a trace of selfconsciousness or humour , Wexford looked her up and down . |
| 7 | They have suggested that the powerpack would be so designed that it could readily be repaired and with suitable maintenance would be capable of running for some 20 years . |
| 8 | If you look at the range now available , they suggest that we could use video for these purposes : |
| 9 | This theory has recently been investigated scientifically , and the results suggest that it could well be correct . |
| 10 | Forestry experts suggest that it could be due to a cocktail of factors , including drought and climate change , " acid rain " -type pollution , and insects attacking the trees . |
| 11 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge . |
| 12 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge from the current upheaval . |
| 13 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | As an astute contemporary observed , " the strange thing is that de Gaulle did not , at any time , suggest that he could save [ the French people ] from [ war ] ; the suggestion was rather that if war was to come … it would be better for France if he were in charge " . |
| 15 | Early impressions suggest that there could be keen competition to provide such a service — if the money can be found ! |
| 16 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 17 | Some writers ( e.g. Maslow ) in the sixties and seventies proposed that we could rank these needs into a hierarchy and predict the order in which individuals would try to satisfy their ‘ needs ’ . |
| 18 | I did n't know that they could , but I 'd always sworn to her that I would never involve her in any way and I 've never broken my word . |
| 19 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 20 | How did she know that she could find sanctuary in the familiar and the ordinary ? |
| 21 | Benny spoke with an authority she did n't know that anyone could have , let alone herself . |
| 22 | cos Jenny did n't even know that you could bloody put on weight by drinking . |
| 23 | Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week . |
| 24 | For example , if we saw the sequence PQZT , we would know that it could not possibly be an English word . |
| 25 | Did everyone know that he could n't read ? |
| 26 | We do know that he could n't have used a beehive . |
| 27 | ‘ They did n't know that he could n't have drawn a proper furrow let alone a real good 'un if he had n't got his owd pipe a-drawin' in his mouth ! |
| 28 | People would know that I could do the job . |
| 29 | You did n't know that I could see you , did you ? |
| 30 | In all his writings from hiding he had increasingly found a brave and defiant secular voice : one that recognised a ‘ God-shaped hole ’ in life , but did not doubt that it could be filled by art , literature and imagination . |