Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines . |
| 2 | I could choose not to do Alfie , but I would n't I 'd never refuse to do Alfie , I 'd like to be fifty years younger so I could play Alfie for another fifty years . |
| 3 | GAMTA sees the fifty per cent increase — ‘ horrendous though it is ’ — as only the thin end of a very thick wedge which could spell ruin for many small AOC operators in the UK , already suffering the effects of recession and higher regulatory charges than their European counterparts . |
| 4 | Here again there are local choices to be made , one option is the creation of new villages or larger settlements which could offer opportunities for high quality design , and also relieve pressures on existing towns and villages . |
| 5 | What has been set out in these pages is a programme which could change Britain for good . |
| 6 | Fifth , for historical reasons , whoever controlled Thessaly controlled the Delphic Amphictyony , an international committee which could impose fines for religious offences , usually trumped up , and generally exert a practical moral ascendancy of an enjoyable kind over the Greek community . |
| 7 | But the idea of founding fixed royal chapels in strategic places which could provide incomes for royal chaplains was already formed . |
| 8 | A bad year was a disaster to the small peasant while it might well benefit the large farmers or merchants who could store grain for ten years , ‘ observing this rule so consistently that they would pawn their last jewels or load their lands with mortgages until years of high prices ’ . |
| 9 | Why graft your arse off for a full week to make £130 , when you could make £150 for one day 's shoplifting ? |
| 10 | In private practice you could provide services for large , corporate clients , or for private individuals and small businesses . |
| 11 | We survived the General Strike of 1926 , as we could exchange fish for other foods . |
| 12 | We could write tickets for those violations . ’ |
| 13 | If you look at the range now available , they suggest that we could use video for these purposes : |
| 14 | ‘ But if we could swap jobs for one day my first task would be to address the Free World wearing the Everton strip , then run a Blues flag up the mast at the White House . ’ |
| 15 | They could carry goods for local co-operatives and state authorities . |
| 16 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 17 | I 'm sure they could make room for another . ’ |
| 18 | THE unholy tangle that is the Second Division promotion and relegation saga will be resolved today and it could mean heartbreak for three of football 's biggest names . |
| 19 | It could open doors for older people too , but the foundations for changing attitudes have not been adequately laid . |
| 20 | It could offer opportunities for embarrassing independent lords , as Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse showed when he assisted the rebellious inhabitants of Montpellier against William VI ; but his own financial losses when the right to take tallage or forced loans from Toulouse escaped his grasp in 1147 , outweighed any advantage elsewhere . |
| 21 | Bigger groups are likely to find economic recovery patchy and it could take time for higher earnings and dividends to feed through to investors ; while the more volatile smaller businesses , having been hit harder on the way down could spring back faster , Hardman says . |
| 22 | Kenya could encourage further ‘ dependent ’ exports , or it could provide assistance for local producers to gain the necessary skills . |
| 23 | However , it could provide ammunition for legal action which Ferranti intends to take against advisers and individuals in an attempt to recover some of the losses it has suffered . |
| 24 | In the midst of all this , Stirling calmly called a halt so that he could give orders for further targets . |
| 25 | He usually featured at wing or centre-half , though he could provide cover for several forward positions so that , until he was badly hurt during Palace 's tremendous FA Cup victory over Wolves in January 1919 , he was seldom absent from our team . |
| 26 | If he could win support for domestic expansion by coupling it with other proposals , he was only too eager to do so . |