Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun sg] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are still looking for where the boy could have been ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Surely if it was thrown overboard there was no guarantee that it would finish up on shore where the Man could send someone to fetch it . |
| 3 | Although not defined under the Road Traffic Act it is considered that having regard to the spirit of the legislation that the definition used in other Acts would apply viz : Includes any place to which the public have access whether on payment or otherwise , e.g. fields where the public can park for a race meeting or traction engine rally , footpaths or bridleways ( unless the Act states otherwise : see section 22A ( 5 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 ) , or anywhere where the public could be at risk from mechanically propelled vehicles . |
| 4 | Similarly the range of tasks for which the device is required may not be known in the kind of detail which is available from comprehensive task descriptions but the designer will consider the extremes of what it is likely to be used for and the environment in which it will be used , for example designing a machine-tool for use in a factory has different requirements from designing a powered garden tool where the user could be wearing heavy gloves , will not be wearing safety-boots and will not receive any formal training . |
| 5 | Indeed research from the National Child Development Study clearly identifies public matters where the state could intervene to prevent harm to children : In the 1970s there was concern about the ‘ cycle of deprivation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) and the war against poverty ( Jordan , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 7 | In one corner we put a box where the bird could shelter , and we covered this with corrugated iron sheeting ( though it 's since been replaced with corrugated plastic ) . |
| 8 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 9 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |
| 10 | The problem , in short , was to find a system where the landowner could continue to create all the beneficial interests he wished in favour of members of the family , and , at the same time , would be able to deal with the land , by sale , long lease , or mortgage , as if he were a sole owner . |
| 11 | It was on the news in an olde-worlde bierkeller where the volume could n't compete with groups of arm-linked drunken singers . |
| 12 | The Staff Motor Engineer can be instructed where the nature of the damage is within his current field of operation e.g. where the Plant could have been equally well insured under Special Type Motor Policies . |
| 13 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 14 | There are other considerations too in cases of rape and incest where the female could not exercise her choice not to conceive . |
| 15 | On the riverside , where the pathway could not be closed , a uniformed policeman paced imperturbably , and occasionally moved people along if they tended to congregate and linger too long . |
| 16 | But where the hell could I find a large straight , flat piece of wood ? |
| 17 | His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress . |
| 18 | Companies take full advantage of the cheaper labour available from such countries and easily attract Asian workers to the Middle East by paying salaries which are in general higher than the worker could hope to earn in his own country but , of course , much lower than would pertain in , say , Western Europe . |
| 19 | By the time it arrived , and the plans were clearly far more than the government could afford , winning the election took priority over admitting to economic reality . |
| 20 | Always more than a nepotistic afterthought , Brix had more musical input than The Fall could comfortably contain and now , after almost four years of intermittent solo action , she 's finally made her own album ( Spin This Web ) with her own group Adult Net . |
| 21 | A preference for using one code rather than the other could explain differences between individual subjects in the direction of hemifield asymmetry for different tasks ( Kroll and Madden , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Although Kitchener 's recruitment campaign was bringing in more men than the Army could properly train and equip ( by January 1916 two and a half million men had enlisted ) , public pressure was mounting for conscription . |
| 23 | And they certainly needed more help than the school could give . |
| 24 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 25 | The first option was costed and found to be more expensive than the Garden could afford . |
| 26 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 27 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 28 | However , someone other than the purchaser could be injured on account of the article 's negligent manufacture and an exclusion clause would provide no defence in an action brought by him against the manufacturer . |
| 29 | By so doing he gave us priceless clues for a richer , more colourful , and sometimes more dramatic , range of expression than the score could suggest without the eloquence of the two signs . |
| 30 | Blows were exchanged faster than the eye could follow but to no avail — within minutes the proud High Elf lay headless on the plain . |