Example sentences of "[adj] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly hope not , as this could well signal problems for the King of Major Championships . |
| 2 | Certainly both groups find that p53 levels rise following radiation , and this could specifically activate transcription of apoptosis-inducing genes . |
| 3 | Then later , in the Possessed notebooks , we read : ‘ Bazarov was created by a man of the 1840s , and was created as a figure without affectation , which means that a man of the 1840s could not create Bazarov without violating the truth . ’ |
| 4 | The accused could not take advantage of a previous wrong , i.e. of the forgery by which the money came into his account . |
| 5 | Also , Prussia was only one of a series of German states and as such could hardly take advantage of the rapidly developing and highly lucrative Atlantic trade . |
| 6 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 7 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 8 | The Grummit-Maker and Tube Weekly " may not have the glamour of a national daily , but the opinion or recommendation of the editor of the former could actually bring business to your company . |
| 9 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |