Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Praxsys could deliver in the fourth quarter : early 1993 is more likely . |
| 2 | And last night the council gave its approval , building work could start within the next few months . |
| 3 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 4 | All Falkenhayn could set against the Fifth Army 's disappointment at Verdun was the news that the simultaneous U-boat campaign ( as ordained in his Memorandum to the Kaiser ) had already had outstanding success . |
| 5 | A controlling block of the club 's shares is going back on the market and a new owner could emerge in the next few weeks . |
| 6 | The implications of these findings are doubly serious because it is equally likely that the spindle-disrupting action of alcohol could occur during the first meiotic division . |
| 7 | City experts say profits could halve over the next year as the other supermarket chains eat into Gateway 's market share . |
| 8 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 9 | It was upon such essentially private issues that so-called ‘ international ’ agreements could founder in the thirteenth century . |
| 10 | It was held that the plaintiffs could succeed against the first defendants in contract , but in third party proceedings the first defendant 's action against the second defendants ( the manufacturers of the pails ) failed as the pails were merchantable under s14(2) . |
| 11 | Reform has already begun : this weekend voters could choose for the first time a single named candidate for the lower house , instead of numbers on a party list . |
| 12 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 13 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 14 | And botanists fear a quarter of the world 's flora could vanish in the next century , so it 's vital the garden continues to help the plant kingdom grow and flourish . |
| 15 | The £650,000 signing from Leeds could step into the first team if midfielder Steve Hodge fails to recover from the hamstring injury he suffered while training with England last weekend . |
| 16 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 17 | Cyclone now have approval to rebuild and service the aircraft and Bill Sherlock is strongly optimistic that full-scale production could resume within the next few months . |
| 18 | It is possible that a substantial increase in demand for teacher education on language could develop in the next few years . |