Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [vb infin] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where receivables in a particular currency are sufficiently large , an exporter could consider using a Currency Option to hedge an exposure . |
| 2 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 3 | The work of Lifshitz and Khalatnikov was valuable because it showed that the universe could have had a singularity , a big bang , if the general theory of relativity was correct . |
| 4 | Had Baldwin resigned immediately after the election , on the other hand , the King might well have sought to ascertain whether another Conservative could have formed a government and secured Liberal support . |
| 5 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 6 | And then Boy could imagine having a cup of coffee with them in the morning , but he could n't imagine anything else after that . |
| 7 | A Hindu could have eaten a pound of it with pleasure . |
| 8 | The blow could have split a mountain . |
| 9 | Tolkien could have given a lecture about all these at any time . |
| 10 | The writer could have selected a sequence such as His opponent congratulates him on his victory or He is congratulated on his victory by his opponent . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the teacher could have injected an element extrinsic to the drama in the structure by warning the listeners beforehand that they were going to be required to make an accurate report to the rest of the class with the talkers assessing their report for accuracy . |
| 12 | Commitment to the war could have become a problem in itself as the chances of victory became remote . |
| 13 | What court could agree to keep a defendant behind bars when he stood a fair chance of leaving jail , three years later , an innocent man ? |
| 14 | All this stress could have caused an aneurysm . |
| 15 | The jurist could consider holding a trust to be valid where the beneficiary was the same , although the trustee liable had in fact changed . |
| 16 | Nestlé Co. could have obtained an injunction restraining the sale of those tins and they required the buyers not to resell them without first removing the labels . |
| 17 | Secondly , the fiction/concession theory could have supplied an image of the company as separate and distinct from its shareholders which would also have supported the institution of limited liability , but there were strong reasons for preferring the natural-entity model of the company . |
| 18 | However , the impact could have derailed a locomotive and Mrs Jarvie added : ‘ The consequences in those circumstances could be devastating . ’ |
| 19 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 20 | An appeal court said fresh evidence presented last month could have had a bearing on the jury 's original verdict . |
| 21 | Payton could have completed a hat-trick a minute later but shot wide when it looked easier to score . |
| 22 | But surely , a speaker could have conveyed an impression of athleticism simply by saying that they sprinted up the hill . |
| 23 | The warning voice could go take a rain check , she thought . |
| 24 | This odd word could have started an analysis of whether discourses of heterosexual relationships are connected to discourses of , perhaps , masculinity , and nature . |
| 25 | Indeed , the previous reference to " all flesh " in v. 5 as being about to see the glory of Yahweh could have created an expectation that the image in v. 6 will be positive rather than negative . |
| 26 | If you have not been adequately consulted , and a tribunal is satisfied that consultation could have made a difference to the redundancy decision , there is a good chance that you will succeed in an unfair dismissal claim and be entitled to compensation . |
| 27 | Mr Dass could n't understand how a set of curtains for the stage at the Easter Fete could have driven a boy to such ends . |
| 28 | Other methods of evaluation could include interviewing a sample of consumers in the target market ( eg to check if they had seen the promotion , changed their buying habits etc ) , and checking on dealers ' stock-levels , shelf-space etc . |
| 29 | It warned that instances of plague could recur following an explosion in the rat population as a result of the huge quantity of unburied rubbish which had accumulated in and around Kuwait City . |
| 30 | Anyone selling aluminium step ladders outside the Belfry could have made a fortune because after the first few minutes of the match , newcomers realised they could n't see the action on a flat course , unsympathetic to any onlooker less than six feet in height . |