Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] could [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 2 | Although Hertfordshire distinguished between tutor-librarians ( whose job was primarily educational ) and " college librarians " , whose job was supposed to be entirely administrative , many felt that such distinctions were meaningless or misleading ; it was all a matter of proportion , and nobody ( it was argued ) working in a college library could avoid at some stage taking part in the educational process . |
| 3 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 4 | Regulation of transmitter release could occur at any of the sequence of events leading from Ca 2+ entry to exocytosis , through the mobilization , docking and fusion of vesicles at release sites in the presynaptic terminal . |
| 5 | The Sun claims that the Stonebridge council estate in north London ‘ is Britain 's tinderbox where Los Angeles-style riots could explode at any time ’ . |
| 6 | Analysts said last night that oil prices could stabilise at present levels of around $18 a barrel if OPEC could prevent ‘ leakage ’ which would cause total cartel supply to rise above 24 million bpd until the end of June . |
| 7 | It clearly was n't something that the patrol section could do at that time . |
| 8 | Were it not for the tides , it is hard to see how salt marsh could exist at all . |