Example sentences of "[prep] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he 's survived the cancer so far , it has n't altered the fact that he will probably be in a wheelchair by the age of 10 — or that A-T could kill him before he 's 20 , unless a cure is found . |
| 2 | To think this man she had thought so highly of could stoop to cheat and mislead her . |
| 3 | Five , yeah and then I sort of could extend it |
| 4 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 5 | I I that 's a problem that in terms of could see whether our natural wastage in er would would cope with it . |
| 6 | The machine Robert Stephenson was so proud of could punch such a sheer in less than four minutes , never forgetting a hole , never punching a superfluous one . |
| 7 | Because iron structural members were used in circumstances where great strength was required , it is very unlikely that serious defects , such as could affect timber or masonry before they become unsafe , can arise without causing collapse . |
| 8 | In 1921 , The Waste Land clearly on his mind , Eliot complained that the anti-Georgian poets were ‘ mostly such as could imagine the Last Judgment only as a lavish display of Bengal lights , Roman candles , catherine-wheels , and inflammable fire-balloons . |
| 9 | As far as beating down and killing went , nothing very much was achieved , for the enemy were now everywhere in flight , such as could run , none staying to fight , not in Ramsay 's sector at any rate . |
| 10 | It is not Venice but it has warmth , colour , and views such as could stretch the most infertile imagination . |
| 11 | They 've won 2 out of 13 , let in 25 goals and if not for keeper , Alan Judge , goals against could have topped 30 by Saturday tea time . |
| 12 | He had n't quite stripped her , but the lacy bra and briefs he had left her with could have proved no barrier to his imagination . |
| 13 | In could come David West , who has just returned from holiday , while Colin Ramirez and Gary Macartney , substitutes at the weekend , may be in the starting line-up . |
| 14 | Before per could enquire further about Miles 's odd behaviour , Zehavi moved rapidly away down the corridor , muttering angrily to himself . |
| 15 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 16 | Some legitimately if they wanted to could gain business from going in all of them . |
| 17 | Anyone who really wanted to could get in with no trouble at all . ’ |
| 18 | He thought that none of those he had spoken to could have told him anything of the killing . |
| 19 | It was Mama , though , who wore it in the painting halfway up the great staircase — so that all who passed by could see it and admire . |
| 20 | Television sets were rare and people watched in groups ; in the oases of the south it was customary to watch television out of doors in the cool of the summer evening , where any person who happened to pass by could sprawl on the sand . |