Example sentences of "could [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second aim was to assess whether , as a bulking agent , psyllium could modify echographic gastric emptying time and , in parallel , sensations of hunger and satiety . |
| 2 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Employers were content to retain a cadre of single women who could supervise other women , though once into their fifties such women were at risk of being construed as ‘ too old ’ . |
| 5 | To Branson , paying tax was ‘ a waste of money ’ when you could plough that money back into the company . |
| 6 | And so you could plough that straight back in |
| 7 | These results suggest that IL2 and IFN-γ could enhance colonic epithelial cell injury mediated by the ADCC mechanism in ulcerative colitis and that ADCC enhanced by cytokines is restored by PSL treatment . |
| 8 | Benveniste et al showed that < was susceptible to lipase C and D , and Moreau et al reported that pentagastrin could enhance gastric lipase activity in humans . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Furthermore , a limited number of staff could service all of the machines . |
| 13 | The increase is slightly less in the case of beverages , which is what one would expect given that wine stocks could service two establishments more easily than food ones . |
| 14 | Suddenly he remembered his wish in Basil Hallward 's house … his wish that he could stay young , but the picture could grow old . |
| 15 | ‘ You wished that the picture could become old , and that you could stay young . |
| 16 | In fact he could have been me , except that he had had the initiative to ask the landladies if he could stay cheaper by foregoing the second ‘ B ’ — the breakfast . |
| 17 | They guarded it superstitiously , for while it remained impenetrable , they felt they could stay alive , whatever the horror of the world outside . |
| 18 | ‘ I could stay overnight and drop in on her . ’ |
| 19 | If only Maxwell could be more … if only they could stay awake … if only Maxwell could be with her at three thirty in the afternoon , when they might do it like the old days … |
| 20 | Under conditions where lesser men blacked out into unconsciousness , Vologsky could stay awake , alert , and able to manipulate delicate controls . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Four aspects are being investigated : removal of surplus letters ; the most useful forms of sound-symbol relationships ; whether English spelling could follow its own rules consistently ; and how everything in print could stay readable . |
| 23 | Or you could stay another year at school or college and re-take the subjects you failed . |
| 24 | If doctors could know for certain which individuals would develop the disease , they could treat potential diabetics before the process takes hold . |
| 25 | There was no way she could treat this new revelation lightly . |
| 26 | If he could treat this lightly , so could she ! |
| 27 | Red-cell damage , for example , could be a side-effect of the release of the free-oxygen radicals , which could damage normal cells as well as infected ones . |
| 28 | Ozone loss could damage immune systems |
| 29 | There had been good reason to know that Labour could damage Unionist electoral prospects and the dangerous prospect of a class-based party system had been present in the Liberal-Labour alliance . |
| 30 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |