Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allegation was foreign to Papert and his colleagues , but it is true that Servan-Schreiber would be politically safer and the centre financially more secure , if French industry could contribute substantially to the hardware required for pilot projects . |
| 2 | Intending clients could stroll in from the street , look over what was on offer , and come to an arrangement with the young lady of their choice . |
| 3 | Rose Hill could do well in the women 's event now that last year 's champion from Denmark , Connie Hansen , has decided not to take part this time . |
| 4 | Wood engravings can accompany type , and so once again pictures could go back on the page ; they were also very durable , so that runs of hundreds of thousands were possible . |
| 5 | Priority in debate to Southern and Northern regions so if all the additional speakers could come down to the front , be very much obliged . |
| 6 | If speakers could come down to the front please Colleagues , settle now please . |
| 7 | I call Birmingham Region to move two three six and again colleagues , if supporting speakers could come down to the front it will assist . |
| 8 | Mentioned earlier , colleagues that erm , there are a number of motions , so if the movers and supporting speakers could come down to the rostrum , it would be er helpful . |
| 9 | Molly could put up with the mysterious fallibility of the electric devices ; she would overcome her husband 's reluctance at the prospect of any sort of adventure . |
| 10 | By paying claims in advance , they fear Mr Outhwaite could pay more in the long term . |
| 11 | It would be logical to expect an author to cite his thesis in his first related paper , so that readers could refer back to the original source . |
| 12 | The train rattled through the suburbs , then slid between the brick backs of tall tenement blocks where Dot could look right in the windows at women standing by their kitchen sinks . |
| 13 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 14 | The longer this persisted , the hotter the planet got , because energy from the Sun could penetrate down through the clouds but was incapable of escaping back out through them ( the famous ‘ greenhouse effect ’ ) . |
| 15 | John Roper , of the Royal Institute of International Affairs , warned that economic failure combined with growing nationalistic fervour in some East European and Third World countries could lead instead to the emergence of extremely right-wing , authoritarian regimes . |
| 16 | Employees of other ‘ foreign ’ railway companies could travel also on the B.C.R. on a Privilege Ticket . |
| 17 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 18 | In fact , it could easily be thought that increased alcohol consumption could result just in the increased incidence of recurrent pancreatitis . |
| 19 | Whatever the impact of the Gulf , America 's deteriorating economy suggests that the dollar could fall further in the short run . |
| 20 | Sharp corn skegs from the heads of bair could creep irritatingly up the inside of a sleeve , as I well remember . |
| 21 | The punishment for trivial offences could go well beyond the magistrate 's ticking-off or the nominal fine . |
| 22 | Sheffield Wednesday striker Hirst could go straight into the team as partner to Alan Shearer after a disappointing Wembley display by Arsenal 's Ian Wright . |
| 23 | The girls bringing in the parcel could dress up like the bridegroom-to-be , taking his work or hobby as the theme , or like any male characters such as footballers , policemen or policewomen wearing sunglasses , gorillas with cigars , city gents in bowler hats , or a spoof pop group of boys in short trousers and caps singing , ‘ Will you still need me when I 'm sixty-four ? ’ . |
| 24 | Those leafing through their history books for an earlier model for the current recession could linger fruitfully over the pages that cover the 1870s . |
| 25 | He was at Ibrox in 1971 when 66 fans died in a crush on the steps of the stadium ; in September 1980 , he had to watch the pathetically outmatched Welsh bantam-weight Johnny Owen die at the hands of Lupe Pintor , after writing beforehand ‘ this fight could end up in the intensive care unit ’ ; and he saw the heart-bursting tension of a World Cup qualifying match kill the man with whom he had an almost filial relationship , the Celtic and Scottish national football manager , Jock Stein . |
| 26 | Before 1950 there was no regional TV station or transmitter : only Parisians could pick up a TV signal ; in 1958 only 50 per cent of the population could tune in to the one black-and-white TV channel . |
| 27 | The outcome could swing dramatically at the last stage . |
| 28 | And while neither manager was wholly satisfied with events , Liam Brady could take more from the proceedings , in which his side dominated the second-half . |
| 29 | The report estimates that up to 40,000 plants could die out by the middle of next century , if the population expands from 5,000 million to 8,000 million by 2020 , as currently predicted . |
| 30 | Ipswich Town could run away with the title but there is strong competition for the second spot . |