Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart sank ; she had been so intent on trying to score off him that she had n't given a thought to what her careless words could do to the understanding that had seemed to be developing between them . |
| 2 | The sorceress could see into the future , and she could see how her curse might again fall on us . ’ |
| 3 | Richard could play outside a while longer , while Cissie and Beth washed the dishes . |
| 4 | Open race fans could kick off the week with a Crayford treble in tonight 's heats of the Carlsberg Vase . |
| 5 | Public and private institutions could , it decided , act in ignorance , and great harm could flow as a consequence , and succession and family law arrangements could potentially be prejudiced . |
| 6 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 7 | In successive years further secondments though reduced in number , were available , and these provided a pool of resource which schools could direct towards the review , development , implementation and evaluation of curriculum change . |
| 8 | The department could look at the value of making use of the local environment as a resource for its teaching . |
| 9 | The commercial use of our facilities for filming/photography etc. in future could come under the remit of the Business Development Director , in liaison with Public Services . |
| 10 | Axelrod and Hamilton point out that reciprocal altruism could evolve without the need for individual recognition in a sessile organism ; in principle , it could evolve in a plant . |
| 11 | By definition the gene must promote the reproductive success of the selfish organisms at a cost to itself but a gene for altruism could evolve in a population of selfish individuals a population of altruists , in whom a gene for selfishness appears by random mutation . |
| 12 | President Bush says the world must look beyond the Gulf crisis to a new deal for the Middle East , and he 's hinting that an Iraqi pull out from Kuwait could lead to an end to the conflict between the Arabs and Israel . |
| 13 | Anyone who heard some of the more extravagant pictures of apprenticeship painted by some of those at the original Edinburgh meeting , must feel slightly uneasy that the Association could turn into a Don Quixote tilting lances at imaginary windmills , pursuing ‘ causes ’ that are not a reality , and being antagonistic for the sake of it . |
| 14 | Three foreign entrants have already withdrawn and a meeting tomorrow of the British Wheelchair Racing Association could call for a boycott by all British competitors . |
| 15 | Nooty could climb like a squirrel . |
| 16 | Hubbell and Foster argue that such thinking could lead to a return to the classical views of rain forest and speciation espoused by Corner , Fedorov and van Steenis . |
| 17 | Many employees and organizations could benefit from a structure that acts as a conduit to help ideas flow more readily through an organization . |
| 18 | Oh , this car could do with a car wash as well could n't it ? |
| 19 | But in the twelfth century , by and large , whoever could enter the ranks of the privileged clergy could hope for a bishopric ; and the ranks of the privileged clergy were open to all who could find patronage , whether because of birth or talent or good luck . |
| 20 | However , detinue was open to the very serious objection from the plaintiff 's point of view that the defendant could insist on the method of trial known as wager of law , i.e . |
| 21 | It amounts to the ‘ best ’ statistical description of the process determining which Barro could find for the period covered by his data . |
| 22 | Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis . |
| 23 | Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , told the conference the Government would not push to legislate while neither shops nor shoppers could agree on a solution , pressure groups could not agree , and Parliament could find no consensus . |
| 24 | Marie could look after the baby and I could help out by going to the shops for fags and milk and stuff like that . |
| 25 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 26 | His bubbling forwardness could collapse in an excess of emotionality . |
| 27 | He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind . |
| 28 | Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic . |
| 29 | In theory , the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue . |
| 30 | And science itself might be seen as an instrument of religious union in that all parties could agree on the existence of a Creator whose power was visible in nature . |