Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last night the council gave its approval , building work could start within the next few months . |
| 2 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 3 | A controlling block of the club 's shares is going back on the market and a new owner could emerge in the next few weeks . |
| 4 | The implications of these findings are doubly serious because it is equally likely that the spindle-disrupting action of alcohol could occur during the first meiotic division . |
| 5 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 6 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 7 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 8 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 9 | Cyclone now have approval to rebuild and service the aircraft and Bill Sherlock is strongly optimistic that full-scale production could resume within the next few months . |
| 10 | It is possible that a substantial increase in demand for teacher education on language could develop in the next few years . |