Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case has become even stronger as British people gain more opportunities to participate in foreign lotteries — thus increasing the risk that funds which we could put to good use in Britain will be diverted abroad . |
| 2 | Beyond the agricultural connection , the main economic strength of a community resided in the number and variety of craftsmen which it could support . |
| 3 | ‘ We discovered there were elms which we could use on the Floors Estate and so the Duke agreed to sell them to us . ’ |
| 4 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 5 | Marks & Spencer and Waitrose both have champagnes which you could usefully treat in the same way if you have to cool dark hole to bung them in . |
| 6 | Mike Rosen , poet and broadcaster , was the champion of a strategy for reading dependent on enthusing readers by offering them books which they could enjoy , books which had been chosen by them or for them by people who knew about children 's books . |
| 7 | There was a company developing games ; another developing an instrument called the Synthaxe ; for reasons which nobody could quite discern , there was a company dedicated to the servicing of air-conditioners , and another , called Top Nosh , selling food around industrial estates . |
| 8 | For reasons which he could not reason — ( perhaps the place had seized his spirit ) — an undeniable cheeky lilt of carelessness , the rapture — long thought lost — of being the man he truly was , threatened to break through the ranks of plot , to disrupt the strategy for survival . |
| 9 | For reasons which I could never grasp , some restaurants seemed in a position to provide much greater variety than others , and my wife and I found one such place in the Hanover Square area , where I worked . |
| 10 | When you join ‘ pony club ’ there are a variety of different activities which you could go on , for example there is show jumping which involves you deciding what height jumps you would like to jump , normally the classes range from two feet high and up . |
| 11 | Beyond that period , he had to be issued with a holding order and eventually served with allegations of his suspected terrorist activities which he could contest before a commissioner in a special ‘ Diplock ’ Detained Persons ' Tribunal . |
| 12 | There was a Haydnish sonata , a gentle piano tracking up and back in patterns which you could half anticipate even if you 'd never heard the piece before . |
| 13 | Riven half expected to see a crocodile hanging from the ceiling , but instead there were bulbs of garlic and bunches of other herbs which he could not identify . |
| 14 | There was some sort of monitor with dials which I could n't make head nor tail of , two drip stands with tubes — one lot going up her nose , the other into her arm — and her right leg was coated in plaster and suspended in mid air by a pulley contraption on which the Spanish Inquisition probably held the patent . |
| 15 | Encourage your friend to contact Phobic Action ( see box ) who organise self-help groups which you could attend . |
| 16 | Faced with the prospect of growing structural unemployment and reflecting an analysis that structural unemployment would be a growing feature of industrial society , the work-force at Lucas Aerospace proposed 150 socially useful products which they could design and manufacture as an alternative to facing degradation and suffering in the dole queue . |
| 17 | He looked upon bishoprics as rewards which he could bestow upon clerks who served him loyally and efficiently . |
| 18 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 19 | There was a really good profile of all the youngsters which I could reproduce if people want . |
| 20 | John Gould was equally hard at work and spent hours tracking down Joyce 's more obscure lyrics and tunes which we could try out in place of any songs which were too difficult for my limited vocal range . |
| 21 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 22 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 23 | These will be tradable : those who are most efficient at reducing pollution would have surplus licences which they could then sell either to those less efficient , or back to government . |
| 24 | There are 2 kinds of errors which you could still encounter ; errors of logic and run-time errors . |
| 25 | He 'd had trouble over a dock strike in France , and had some perishable cargoes which he could n't deliver . |
| 26 | Their mouths were mere swollen wounds which they could not bear to stretch enough to admit the spout of the teapot . |
| 27 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 28 | So they devoted themselves to promoting political movements which they could imagine would still reach the Milnerian goal . |
| 29 | If he 'd arranged the circumstances himself he could n't have done much better . |
| 30 | I could see Bonefish and his sons working the lateen-sail of their skiff way beyond the reef , perhaps looking for turtles which they could sell to the men who exported the rich flesh to the Japanese . |