Example sentences of "could [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What difference could Barling 's death make to Berlin ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Could Beatrice perhaps be getting a bit old in herself , ’ I had suggested , ‘ or could it perhaps be something to do with the accident she had as a child ? ’ |
| 3 | Could Puttnam not have done more himself to change the cultural attitude of governments ? |
| 4 | Reports from the US suggest that Covia 's software will also be snapped up by Sun Microsystems Inc , which could OEM CI as an add-on to its Open Networking Computing environment . |
| 5 | Merlyn said : ‘ What possible reason could Ben have for wanting Sabine dead ? ’ |
| 6 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 7 | Do you think you could Sheila ? |
| 8 | Could Colin stand ? |
| 9 | Only in the bosom of the PCF could Nizan breathe freely , could he begin to function effectively . |
| 10 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
| 11 | ( A passing thought : could Jenkins be persuaded to write a memoir of Wilson , on the scale of his Baldwin , perhaps , rather than a full-scale biography like his Asquith ? |
| 12 | What could Germany now do , and achieve , at sea ? |
| 13 | How could Isabel read any possibility of error into that ? |
| 14 | How else could Chuck have outdone Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot ? |
| 15 | How could Magi 's |
| 16 | It was clear that Jones could do much more detailed neutron measurements than could Fleischmann and Pons , but his data were n't particularly impressive . |
| 17 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
| 18 | How soon could Kirov get his bird off the ground , do you think ? ’ |
| 19 | Why could Glentoran not land players like him ? |
| 20 | Yeah , but how could Jim do that ? |
| 21 | Savary 's statements show that the 17th century bill of lading had begun to function as a ‘ necessary ’ document ; only by showing the document could Savary 's shipper-owner claim lawful possession of the goods he had shipped in his own vessel . |
| 22 | So could Sophie , but , not wanting to cast a shadow on Joanna 's happiness , she spoke carefully . |
| 23 | She could n't remember ; neither , it seemed , could Callum . |
| 24 | Not till 18 October 1144 could Ste Barbe be enthroned in Durham by Fitzherbert , after gradually winning over Earl Henry and the local lay feudatories ; it had been a savage struggle , though lurid partisan denunciations of Cumin 's atrocities are probably exaggerated . |
| 25 | Above : Could David and Christine be discussing Doc D 's monthly column in SHE ? |
| 26 | On the oil services division are there likely to be any further technology transfers this year and er secondly could David give some idea of the impact of the proposed B T U Tax in the United States ? |
| 27 | Only sometimes , on very quiet nights , could Frankie hear the hum of traffic or the distant chiming of the Town Hall clock to remind him that a whole city existed beyond the locked gates . |
| 28 | Could RDS change the shape of broadcasting ? |
| 29 | Could Andy have decided since that the body was n't well enough concealed , and come back and removed it ; hauled it up , taken it away and buried it ? |
| 30 | He meant well but how could Hari ever get over the shock of her mother 's sudden death ? |