Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 2 | See , without the head man the trainer could n't train horses without a head man . |
| 3 | However , independent political analyst Andrew MacMullen says Labour could still secure victory with a smaller swing in its favour . |
| 4 | His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress . |
| 5 | Roger From the Practice could n't tell emphysema from the common cold . |
| 6 | Educational theory and methodology could also become part of this academic enrichment — as could such things as sociology and applied psychology . |
| 7 | In that respect the banks argued that Mr Crawley had no locus standi , and the judge agreed that a shareholder could not recover damages for any reduction in value of his shareholding . |
| 8 | Such a contribution can not be assessed , but assuredly , the research could not take place without it . |
| 9 | Such a contribution can not be assessed , but assuredly , the research could not take place without it . |
| 10 | The research could also provide help to companies who want to introduce microcomputers in similar situations to BTR Farington . |
| 11 | Its half year loss emerges at £51m and the figure could easily top £250m by the year-end . |
| 12 | Such a scene could only take place in The Wedding Present 's dressing room . |
| 13 | Frederica could not see Alexander at all : indeed she had noted he was not there : she stared around and around now at colourless air and sand as though he might rise from them like a mirage . |
| 14 | The societies that organized research and publication could also become arenas for political debate . |
| 15 | Shift work could also make attendance at ATB courses difficult though in one case a part-time farmer had given his local organiser a copy of his shift programme for the next six months ! |
| 16 | Sun could simply cut prices on its diskless workstations to fend off the X terminals crowd , says X Business Group analyst Greg Blatnik , but he does n't really believe it , preferring to think they will join the fray instead . |
| 17 | In this state the electron could not radiate energy in the form of electromagnetic waves because there would be no lower energy state for it to go to . |
| 18 | Young points out that this means the victimisation of over 20 per cent of respondents is still unknown and that such a large proportion could easily skew findings from the surveys . |
| 19 | However , the quarter of an inch strain gauge could only record stress on one small portion of the club , while simulation can simultaneously display stress levels on over 1,000 grid points . |
| 20 | It also said the council could not reimburse Tracy for any damage . |
| 21 | Abolition of the Wages Council could seriously affect equality of pay between the sexes . |
| 22 | Although the shifted maser could also produce emission at a frequency separated from the main features by twice the plasma frequency , no significant emission stronger than 51mJy ( 3 ) is found at . |
| 23 | Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour . |
| 24 | Post-recombination reionization could also produce fluctuations in the CMBR , but would lead to fluctuations larger than observational limits on small scales ( but see Fukugita and Kawasaki who discuss reionization in unstable neutrino models ) . |
| 25 | The machine could only take material of a certain size — not a whole figure , for example — and so fragments were collaged together . |
| 26 | Exchange could also take place on the basis of ideological support , commitment or obligation , as has often been the case between public enterprise unions and social democratic governments . |
| 27 | From 1860 young Frenchmen without a licence en droit could also gain appointment by taking an examination in diplomatic history , international law and languages . |
| 28 | ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs . |
| 29 | By ensuring the general application of minimum wage standards industry-wide bargaining could also prevent workers from competing with one another by offering to work for less . |
| 30 | With respect to the Secretary of State , I believe that most right hon. and hon. Members found very unconvincing his explanation as to why such a provision could not form part of the Bill . |