Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern Boy included real science , with pictures showing how powerful ants were by imagining them as big as horses , in which case they could move around carrying skyscrapers . |
| 2 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 3 | ‘ Playing cricket as well always caused a bit of a problem come April , unless you were n't in the team in which case they could n't give a stuff . |
| 4 | The fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2 million people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 5 | erm the fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2,000,000 people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 6 | One conclusion might be that it is possible to define different grades of appropriateness , in which case it could be argued that the word-of-mouth teaching of the lobon-gur solution was a more appropriate form of oral therapy technology than the distribution of an insufficient number of Oral Rehydration Salt packets via restricted outlets . |
| 7 | She could be totally paralysed and on a ventilator in Intensive Care , in which case it could be months before she recovers . |
| 8 | Perhaps he had been kidnapped or for some reason forced to adopt another identity , in which case he could be trusted to reappear , several reigns later , cover himself in glory and inherit the throne . |
| 9 | If you do n't , we reserve the right to treat your booking as cancelled , in which case you could be liable to pay us cancellation charges up to 100% of the Final Invoice total in accordance with paragraph 4 below . |
| 10 | A piece of thick , stiff cardboard about 40 cm × 15 cm for each tank — you could instead modify the design , using pieces of hardboard or preferably thin plywood , in which case you could make slightly larger aquaria ; a roll of transparent plastic sandwich bags ; one large , wide rubber band for each tank ; Bostik or other glue suitable for gluing the cardboard — if you are using plywood or hardboard , use a wood glue and small panel pins to fix the sections together ; a supply of jars or plastic containers with screw-on or snap-on lids . |
| 11 | In which case you could claim the proportion of the house on expenses . |
| 12 | You could be very stupid and go straight back to your flat , in which case you could be putting yourself in a lot of danger . |
| 13 | For example , a hearer might derive a range of implicatures about athletes and races , in which case you could say that the use of sprint conjures up an impression of athleticism not suggested by run . |
| 14 | This was held to be reasonable during employment but was construed as being too wide post employment as it would prevent the defendant becoming a medical officer of health in which capacity he could not prejudice the plaintiff 's goodwill . |
| 15 | Perhaps it would be a pretty good discussion trying to decide in which establishment you could learn more . |
| 16 | Our mussels are cleaned and are sold fresh , staying that way for at least five days — by which time they could be in the south of France . ’ |
| 17 | This was the corner to which she had tottered , her mother holding her on white leather reins , her legs encased in knitted leggings whose scratchiness she could still remember . |
| 18 | There was a card game next door whose progress he could hear through the partition wall . |
| 19 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 20 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange recommends a ‘ Neighbourhood Advertising Plan ’ , the essence of which was that every manager would define ‘ the radius or zone ’ from which his ‘ logical business ’ was secured and that he should then proceed to go directly to the individuals whose patronage he could reasonably expect . |
| 21 | I looked at her face , at the shape of the jaw and curve of the forehead ; I looked at the mouth of the mother of the girl whose mouth I could n't get enough of kissing . |
| 22 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 23 | Absurdly , she felt jealous of Student Cross as of some unknown quantity , some hidden source of fascination , whose attraction she could neither understand nor compete with . |
| 24 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |
| 25 | A well-shaped grey head leaned to peer at her out of concerned hollow eyes , whose colour she could not determine . |
| 26 | It all came back into my mind because of the ball , the spring ball , and the partner whose name I could not remember , although I have remembered now . |
| 27 | I should have known I would have problems when I crossed the border of a place whose name I could hardly pronounce — Mosonmagyaróvár . |
| 28 | Pickthorne had played , most of the time we were talking , with his baby girl whose name I could n't remember . |
| 29 | In particular I recall how the fellow-student , in that breathless voice of teenage girls , strangled in this case with awe , asked him whether he knew some Italian poet whose name I could not catch . |
| 30 | Up behind the desk , ‘ Pansy ’ Fanshawe was preparing to see how sodium reacted with something whose name I could neither remember nor pronounce . |