Example sentences of "[adv] could the [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 | So could the Portfolio work its passage in the average pocket ? |
| 4 | But if he could distinguish and recognize , so could the other . ’ |
| 5 | If St Paul could appeal to Caesar , so could the bishops opposed to Paul of Samosata . |
| 6 | He could have been the driver of the Mercedes at the Hilton Hotel , but then so could the majority of Mainz 's male population . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No longer could the hanging be seen as a threat ; it was now a promise . |
| 9 | No longer could the peasant derive the necessaries of life from the materials , the soil , and the resources of his own strong arms . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Only then could the swop , from one tank to another , take place . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | And where else could the hydra really have been spawned ? |
| 19 | ‘ Because Vechey was probably dead , strangled before he ever reached that bridge , and what else could the murderer do with the corpse ? |
| 20 | But never could the Elbe be securely held until the Slavs across it , the Danes near the lower end of it , and the Bohemians on its upper reaches , were all tamed and Christianized . |