Example sentences of "and [Wh det] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If shape-perception required the application of high-level concepts , it would be implausible to say , for example , that a kingfisher can see the shape of a stickleback ( which I described earlier as ‘ a sort of narrow pointed ellipse with sharp projections on its upper surface ’ , and which we could describe in many other ways ) . |
| 2 | Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily . |
| 3 | I could send you a list of vacancies , and mark any I thought might suit Mrs Ross and which I could vouch for . |
| 4 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 5 | But in a two-hour interview with reporters of the Scottish Daily Record he listed some fifteen details of the layout of the Ross bungalow and what was in it , information not mentioned at Meehan 's trial or in the newspapers , and which he could only have known if he had been there , all of which Mr Ross confirmed ( ‘ Colour of bedroom quilts was pink ’ , ‘ A light tan suit was in the bedroom wardrobe ’ , ‘ An alarm clock with black face and luminous hands stood in the hatchway to the kitchen ’ , etc . ) . |
| 6 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 7 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
| 8 | Nor tenderness either , but more a wistful thought of a better world where such things as new beginnings could actually take place , and which he could never realistically expect to see . |
| 9 | Opposite him , he noticed that Janet Roscoe had delved once more into the deep handbag , this time producing a very slim volume , whose title it was impossible for him not to see , and which he could have guessed in any case : CHAUCER , Tale of the Wyf of Bathe . |
| 10 | David Greenland , of North Terrace , Gainford , said Sturdy , whom he knew from school , offered him a deal which he thought would boost trade and which he could terminate if he wanted to . |
| 11 | But there was also another feeling which was something else altogether , and which she could not understand . |
| 12 | There was an overpoweringly strong odour of stale tobacco smoke , and beneath that , other smells which were alien to her nostrils and which she could not identify . |
| 13 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 14 | We should have had our case prepared and presented to him , spelling out what we wanted and what we could not accept , before he took his decision . |
| 15 | Only the score and what we could work out on the piano and what we were able to hear in the opera-house from singers like Mayr . |
| 16 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 17 | Oh ah we used to get together and we used to discuss each other you know what we could take and what we could n't take . |
| 18 | As with most things in drama , there are many questions which slip between categories , but the attempt to define types of questions is useful if it helps us see more clearly what we are doing and what we could be doing . |
| 19 | And what we could do is keep him at Saint Christopher 's if we can afford to send him privately , keep him at Saint Christopher 's for a couple of years . |
| 20 | Not only should parents pay when and what they could , and so inhibit the assumption of paternal responsibility by the State . |
| 21 | Secondly , the discussion on why the schools were needed and what they could achieve reveals significant features of both the age and the class relationships . |
| 22 | Such mercenaries were specialist fighters , owing no firm allegiance , men who fought for pay and what they could get out of war . |
| 23 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 24 | Students should be encouraged to identify for themselves how this information would be used and what they could get out of it . |
| 25 | Young Whizzquid and his City friends can not be expected to toil on Aunt Agatha 's behalf for nothing , and the spread between offer prices and bid — between what she puts in and what she could take out five minutes later — is around 6% . |
| 26 | mm , did it , did it ask how much was stretching on her , what she can do and what she could n't do or |
| 27 | And what he could be certain of . |
| 28 | In this second case a person was less aware of the actual stimulus but quickly in tune with his own associations and what he could ‘ read between the lines ’ . |
| 29 | He was just as straight about what he did n't want , what he would n't do and what he could n't be bothered to do . |
| 30 | ‘ Never , ’ Harrison said , lying , for his whole purpose was to get back to his father 's farm to work out when he could return and what he could offer Mary . |