Example sentences of "[adv] could a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Well — if a little squirt of a bower-bird could do it — so could a cassowary ! |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | But think of it , emotional charity from a couple of eight-year-olds — how low could a person possibly get ? |
5 | How far could a minister of the people be educated beyond their level ? |
6 | Now could a man have a cup of tea in this place does anyone think ? ’ |
7 | Nowhere else could a sign be displayed saying : ‘ No loitering in this yard except on business . ’ |
8 | What else could a man and a woman need , I repeated to myself , except each other ? |
9 | How else could a crowd of deadbeats like that have kept control all these years ? ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Where else could an entity composed of blended matter and immaterium really have been conceived and forged but in the Eye ? |