Example sentences of "[adv] could [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , ‘ not only could new planning processes forge a closer link between the interests of business and government , the very style of corporate management , the language that both partners were now speaking , brought them closer together ’ ( p. 19 ) . |
| 2 | This was so , despite the fact that not only could large profits be made from such trading , but that the whole rationale of the legislation ( ie. to protect the fairness and integrity of the market ) was seriously undermined . |
| 3 | How long could that game go on ? |
| 4 | How long could such anguish last ? |
| 5 | So could regional loyalties . |
| 6 | So could regional loyalties . |
| 7 | If cars could have images , so could political candidates . |
| 8 | Just as the slums , squalor and muddle of towns and cities could be overcome by planning , so could social evils . |
| 9 | Thus could economic statehood be achieved for the economic union . |
| 10 | Cold War tensions might be at an end but did the Soviets not retain a huge nuclear arsenal , and how quickly could Strategic Arms Reduction Talks ( START ) be expected to progress ? |
| 11 | Was the climate once milder , and hence could southern-atlantic ferns and bryophytes have once been more widespread ? |
| 12 | Only when this co-operation got underway could modern life progress . |
| 13 | And you know what they say about every cloud having a silver lining — well could young Joey Beecham be United 's ray of hope ? |
| 14 | And what dreams of a better tomorrow could these victims of the Communist jackboot have dreamt after a reading of Reed 's celebration of sado-masochism , Venus in Furs ? |
| 15 | Only then could new credits become available . |
| 16 | Only then could theoretical speculation take place . |
| 17 | Means-testing was repugnant , yet how else could higher pensions be legitimated ? |
| 18 | And , we might ask , what else could Conceptual Art be ? ’ |
| 19 | How else could United manager Dave Bassett call up a faithful old servant from his Wimbledon days like Alan Cork and see him kill off Everton with his first goal for the club ? |
| 20 | It had no business goodwill and was not permitted to trade ; nor did it have shareholders ; ( 5 ) in failing to take proper account of the fact that it logically followed that if a local government corporation could sue for libel in respect of its governing reputation then so too could any institution of central government ( including , for example , a government department which was a statutory corporation such as the Department of the Environment ) ; ( 6 ) in the premises in considering that there was no uncertainty or ambiguity in English law in relation to the extent to which local authorities might sue for libel . |