Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts would also be able to keep many more people out of custody if there were more bail hostels , where defendants could reside in a sheltered environment while receiving assessment from local services , and more sheltered hostels for sentenced offenders who require supervision by probation officers but not the restrictions of a prison . |
| 2 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 3 | Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , told the conference the Government would not push to legislate while neither shops nor shoppers could agree on a solution , pressure groups could not agree , and Parliament could find no consensus . |
| 4 | First day or Last Day , Rest Day or Resurrection Day , the abiding Christian belief is that within three days the worst that humans could do to a man was transformed by the power of divine love into the greatest news story of history : ‘ Jesus lives ! ’ |
| 5 | ( We can not , of course employ this argument on behalf of anencephalics , although mongoloids could benefit from a variant of it . ) |
| 6 | The new literacy arising from compulsory elementary education meant that boys could read about a sport which was organized in a way that made it difficult to watch regularly . |
| 7 | The place where rivermen dockers and farmworkers could relax after a hard day 's work . |
| 8 | Many employees and organizations could benefit from a structure that acts as a conduit to help ideas flow more readily through an organization . |
| 9 | The Fairclough report suggests that suitable UK institutions could be offered Faraday Centre status , becoming foci for technologies and expertise of industrial relevance , in which graduate scientists and engineers could work for a higher degree while engaged on contract research before moving into industry . |
| 10 | Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play . |