Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were seven or eight we could clear the place up as good as my Mum … but I 've seen some girls — like my aunt 's little girl and she 's fifteen , she 's just hopeless . |
| 2 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 3 | They are often the same person or principal it could be either in divisional quality manager or procedure |
| 4 | If they were younger and one of the partners was disabled , infirm , or sick they could live together , but the arrangement had to be reported to the Minister . |
| 5 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 6 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 7 | A. If you find a house or flat you could buy but ca n't get a large enough building society or bank mortgage , the local authority may be able to help in the following ways : |
| 8 | I had to or all I could go somewhere else . |
| 9 | He and other psychoanalysts have relied on dreams recollected during therapy sessions , or those they could recall themselves . |
| 10 | They criticized a social order based on private property and commerce , where those who could afford to buy showed so little taste and discrimination . |
| 11 | Cellars sprouting fungus from every dripping crevice , where those who could not even afford a place on an upstairs mattress paid a penny to sleep standing up like horses , leaning against a rope which would be simply untied the next morning when the landlord considered they had slept long enough . |
| 12 | There are one or two we could do without , but that 's always the case ! |
| 13 | For a moment or two they could n't understand what was happening . |
| 14 | It 's only this last day or two I could speak about him so . |
| 15 | Now he 's found , but if there 's a hope of getting to the truth about Sabine Jourdain in the next day or two I could linger . ’ |
| 16 | For a moment or two I could neither breathe nor move . |
| 17 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |
| 18 | Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry . |
| 19 | Harlow youth theatre now with our developing links with Harlow College and it 's performing arts division er is now based in the College with tutor 's from staff of the college who 's job is one way er that that we could we could push it forward . |
| 20 | There 's mi minus four people coming to the party tonight , they 're all crackers , okay but it works , it 's very useful it solves an awful lot of problems like you know getting rockets to the moon and things like that that we could n't do otherwise . |
| 21 | It wouldn't 've surprised me that that he could feel were an eyelash like mine was . |
| 22 | Sir , Skelton has taken all of that that it could possibly stand , without destruction . |
| 23 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 24 | Leather goods , desk accessories , smoking accessories , tableware , the little playthings of the conspicuously affluent — Edouard knew that these , adorned with the de Chavigny name and crest , could be marketed for high prices and to a much wider market than that which could afford the most superlative jewellery in the world . |
| 25 | This technique may be used when the Bank is keen to produce a change in interest rates faster than that which could be obtained by waiting for bill offers to respond to an initial rejection of bids by the Bank : it was used more frequently in 1988 and 1989 , especially as a method of signalling the Bank 's desire to see higher short term interest rates . |
| 26 | She watched his deft slender hands bleached by the light , and knew that this one could have been , should be , some kind of fine and meticulous craftsman , should never have to be wrestling with pipes , floorboards , beams that seemed heavier than he was . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot nicer than some I could name . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Safer in his arms than some I could mention , ’ Deirdre joked back . |
| 29 | The result was that all one could see was dozens and dozens of blinking lights all over the sky . |
| 30 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |