Example sentences of "[adv] could [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not only could the possibility of salvation be rejected , both James Stephen and Clarkson affirmed , but men and women had sufficiently free will , ‘ to render us justly responsible … for all the sins we commit in this our state of trial ’ . |
2 | As William Smith had understood , contact , — friendship , — influence , — were the means by which not only could the youth be rescued and disciplined , but also civilized . |
3 | Well — if a little squirt of a bower-bird could do it — so could a cassowary ! |
4 | So could the Portfolio work its passage in the average pocket ? |
5 | But if he could distinguish and recognize , so could the other . ’ |
6 | If St Paul could appeal to Caesar , so could the bishops opposed to Paul of Samosata . |
7 | He could have been the driver of the Mercedes at the Hilton Hotel , but then so could the majority of Mainz 's male population . |
8 | If the level was set too high , Michael could hear all right , but unfortunately so could the rest of the theatre , in a sort of ghostly pre-echo . |
9 | Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question . |
10 | No longer could the hanging be seen as a threat ; it was now a promise . |
11 | No longer could the peasant derive the necessaries of life from the materials , the soil , and the resources of his own strong arms . |
12 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
13 | But think of it , emotional charity from a couple of eight-year-olds — how low could a person possibly get ? |
14 | How far could a minister of the people be educated beyond their level ? |
15 | The second question is this : if the trustee had sold ( or otherwise alienated ) the trust property , how far could the beneficiary pursue his rights against third parties ? |
16 | Now could a man have a cup of tea in this place does anyone think ? ’ |
17 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
18 | She was trying to forge permanent links between France and Scotland because only then could the house of Valois survive against the monstrous growth of Hapsburg power , centred on Spain and the Empire , controlling the Netherlands and , in the very year she became regent , clutching England into its maw with the marriage of Philip and Mary . |
19 | They perceived that a fundamental requirement was to develop a scientific and reproducible method for measuring the efficiency of load carrying , for only then could the value of changes in rucksack design be compared accurately . |
20 | How then could the meeting at Amsterdam pose as a meeting of Christendom when the largest Church in the world refused to have anything to do with it ? |
21 | Only then could the swop , from one tank to another , take place . |
22 | Nowhere else could a sign be displayed saying : ‘ No loitering in this yard except on business . ’ |
23 | What else could a man and a woman need , I repeated to myself , except each other ? |
24 | How else could a crowd of deadbeats like that have kept control all these years ? ’ |
25 | We can see that the widespread strategy of programmed learning is the means by which the genes tell their dim-witted couriers when and what to learn ( how else could an insect reason it out ? ) and then what to do with the knowledge thus obtained . |
26 | Where else could an entity composed of blended matter and immaterium really have been conceived and forged but in the Eye ? |
27 | What else could the King have meant when he told MacDonald that he was ‘ the only person who could carry the country through ’ and that he , the King , would strongly advise the leaders of the other parties to support him ? |
28 | After a while , the villagers suspected that their priest must have stumbled across some sort of treasure , for how else could the funding of his good works be explained ? |
29 | And where else could the hydra really have been spawned ? |
30 | ‘ Because Vechey was probably dead , strangled before he ever reached that bridge , and what else could the murderer do with the corpse ? |