Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] could [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The van Gogh and Walter-Guillaume suits , started last September and December respectively , could take three to four years and the Walters ' lawyers fear French authorities could divert the former case to an administrative Tribunal which could take a further three to four years to judge it . |
| 2 | Against the powerful opposition of many in the Nazi hierarchy Vlasov 's German supporters could do no more than secure permission to use the general for propaganda purposes . |
| 3 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 4 | Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example . |
| 5 | In theory 2 people could pick the same team , but unlikely . |
| 6 | A big quake this year could do the same . |
| 7 | As it was , the dying Count could do no more than give instructions that his body should not be buried until Henry had promised to observe the terms of his father 's will . |
| 8 | The lady of medium build will need the regular ladies ' shaft coded " L " , while the more powerful and hard-hitting female could use the same clubs as a slightly-built man . |
| 9 | Young Buster 's class should tell in the Hayselden Audi/ VW Doncaster Shield , but Taufan Blu could upset a few reputations in the Cammidge Trophy . |
| 10 | If you could , you 'd be rich ; no on second thoughts you would n't , because any fool could do the same . |
| 11 | ‘ Any idiot could stick a few leaves from a houseplant on their heads , and wrap themselves in a bedsheet . |
| 12 | Her lungs burst into fragments of agony so infinite that her lower lip could do no more than flop open and dribble out a feeble croak . |
| 13 | Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate . |
| 14 | The subdivision of mansi into fractions documented in some polyptychs has been held to suggest the pressure of rising population on land-holding , and evidence of land-clearance and the extension of the cultivated area could point the same way . |
| 15 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 16 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 17 | Ultraviolet radiation could do the same job as the electrical discharge in their laboratory . |
| 18 | Thus two students could attain the same marks , but the way in which the marks were interpreted depended on the perception held for each student . |
| 19 | Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry . |