Example sentences of "[indef pn] that could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pleasant as the round of meetings had been , there was next to nothing that could be agreed as a common objective for the final communiqué . |
| 2 | It seemed there was nothing that could be done . |
| 3 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 4 | There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way . |
| 5 | He turned to look at Myeloski , peering urgently out of the window as the traffic stacked up and made movement impossible , and knew that he had nothing in common with these people , nothing that could be shared because of his blood . |
| 6 | Lucille took a last look in the mirror , decided there was nothing that could be done to make herself any more elegant or beautiful , and so picked up her small bag that contained the precious pasteboard ticket . |
| 7 | Neither Leland nor Camden has much to say about industry in England ; and there was nothing that could be specifically called an industrial landscape . |
| 8 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
| 9 | There was nothing that could be adapted for lock-picking , not even a paperclip . |
| 10 | Nothing for the archives and nothing that could be sold off , this bric-a-brac had obviously been stored against the possibility of some surviving and previously untraced relative appearing to claim it . |
| 11 | It was virtually desert country , the irrigation channels blocked with debris , nothing that could be called a tree to be seen anywhere . |
| 12 | Nothing that could be labelled as a breach of client-confidentiality , but enough to engage her attention . |
| 13 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 14 | They found a number of flashes but none that could be definitely ascribed to gamma ray bursts from primordial black holes . |
| 15 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
| 16 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
| 17 | The Milanese turned to reconstruction with a will , deciding that everything that could be returned to an ‘ as before ’ condition should be . |
| 18 | As the future was so uncertain , however , the family retained ownership of all fixtures , fittings and moveable contents — everything that could be stripped out if Thoresby were ever threatened with demolition . |
| 19 | Suggest to them the fact that when they had finished this one they would know absolutely bloody everything that could be possibly known , now and for always , about Wimbledon . |
| 20 | Everything that could be made of iron was , from the churchyard fence and gates to the interior columns and arches , the window tracery and door frames , and even the pinnacles on the tower . |
| 21 | Everything that could be turned upside down was upside down . |
| 22 | Everything that could be dismantled , we carried in pieces on our person . |
| 23 | But I did the whole of Orkney for a while I did everything that could be done . |
| 24 | Everything that could be polished was polished , but nothing was new , all the furniture and equipment settled into their accustomed places as of long habit . |
| 25 | It was something that could be felt or pinched . |
| 26 | High purpose was something that could be recognized in someone , like a gleam in the eye or a tone of voice ; it meant that even when that person dabbled in something doubtful , they undoubtedly had good reason for doing so . |
| 27 | And I suspect also that from time to time the director feels that he has to placate the more hard-nosed and less imaginative of his many paymasters by producing something that could be regarded as promoting trade . |
| 28 | A big pie was not something that could be made in a field and cooked on a bonfire , it would require skill and expertise in the use of large ovens and these were available as they were used by the local manufacturers of earthenware pipes : |
| 29 | In nearly every case , what is seen is a hint of something that could be , but is not . |
| 30 | They are also on the edge of something that could be even more immediately dangerous . |