Example sentences of "could [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first realised that herbs could reproduce this effect — ; and later wondered if a lack of them could be responsible for some of the diseases that seem particular to fish of this area . |
| 2 | To Branson , paying tax was ‘ a waste of money ’ when you could plough that money back into the company . |
| 3 | And so you could plough that straight back in |
| 4 | Joe Montana , cast off by the San Francisco 49ers , and Marcus Allen , surplus to requirements at the Los Angeles Raiders , could laugh all the way to Super Bowl XXVIII . |
| 5 | Joe Montana , cast off by the San Francisco 49ers , and Marcus Allen , surplus to requirements at the Los Angeles Raiders , could laugh all the way to Super |
| 6 | By 1914 , the Germans had found that they could conduct most of their correspondence with village headmen in Swahili , and the British also found this a great advantage . |
| 7 | Furthermore , a limited number of staff could service all of the machines . |
| 8 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 9 | Or you could stay another year at school or college and re-take the subjects you failed . |
| 10 | There was no way she could treat this new revelation lightly . |
| 11 | If he could treat this lightly , so could she ! |
| 12 | However , it 's definitely not advisable to carry out this procedure yourself , as static electricity could damage some of the ICs . |
| 13 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 14 | In late 1976 , Radio Telefis Eireann , the Irish state television service , decided to produce a documentary on Lebanon and asked me if I could locate any films that depicted the country in the days of peace . |
| 15 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 16 | A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R . |
| 17 | you could wind that up . |
| 18 | Therefore differences in the timing of retinoic acid exposure can independently alter processes of growth and regional identity in the hindbrain , which could explain much of the phenotypic variation in retinoic acid-treated embryos . |
| 19 | Rachel believed that mechanistic science could explain all phenomena , even those of the heart and soul ; Rachel would never have forgiven her , the last place of safety and affection would have been taken away . |
| 20 | They found they could explain all the experimental data on neutral weak currents by assuming quantum mixing between the electromagnetic current and the neutral weak current . |
| 21 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 22 | You could explain that to me . |
| 23 | However it was then pointed out by a biologist that tiny movements by the plant could explain these variations . |
| 24 | Now , if child survival were simply a question of affluence as you might think it was , there 's no way you could explain these figures . |
| 25 | The second half of Darwin 's Descent of Man was devoted to sexual selection , because Darwin thought that this was the only process that could explain some of humankind 's unique features such as our loss of body hair . |
| 26 | A most interesting finding of this article is that plant growth is irregular , which could explain some of the apparent errors of the instrument designed here . |
| 27 | Conversely , if the egg had just popped into existence and then exploded , what could explain this bizarre event ? |
| 28 | There must be a further factor which could explain this . |
| 29 | Einstein could explain this in quantum terms . |
| 30 | She wondered how she could explain this to him if he did n't see it already . |