Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 2 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 3 | This did not surprise me , since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency . |
| 4 | An illegitimate birth in the degrading surroundings of the workhouse was about the deepest stigma that anyone could bear at the start of life . |
| 5 | The ceilings were so low that one wonders how anyone could get at the carding machines to clean them . |