Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [vb infin] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive . |
| 2 | It is doubtful that the Children 's Department could have made the series anyway , as one of Sydney Newman 's other shake-ups had been to wind down this Department , dispersing much of its talent throughout the rest of the Drama Group . |
| 3 | Police believe the footprint in blood could help trap the killer . |
| 4 | Where the constable is not authorised the defendant could have allowed the constable to carry out the inspection . |
| 5 | However , the Inland Revenue could seek to recover the tax due by summary judgment under only one of the alternative assessments ( p 108 ) . |
| 6 | However , the Inland Revenue could seek to recover the tax due by summary judgment under only one of the alternative assessments , since to do otherwise would be vexatious . |
| 7 | Aides know only a TV or radio employee could have taken the tape . |
| 8 | Please send in your suggestions quickly for a venue and ideas on the form the programme could take following the business meeting . |
| 9 | The whole stereotype was a media creation anyway , so nobody in their right mind could claim to represent the Manchester scene . ’ |
| 10 | The killer could have reached the office from the lane , or by crossing the yard from the house , or by coming through the shop from the house . |
| 11 | He denied that his force could have turned the hippies away before they got onto the common . |
| 12 | No President could have accepted the presence of Soviet missiles on an island only 145 kilometres from the American mainland . |
| 13 | Clearly neither Paul Black himself nor his committee could have read the book : otherwise they would surely have paused for thought before designing a system with such awful possibilities . |
| 14 | No dream could have awakened the flood of sensations and swirling emotions , like a dam-burst , that had suddenly exploded within her , flowing too swiftly , too eagerly , to control . |
| 15 | The work could help to improve the performance of chips . |
| 16 | The company believed more opportunities in the pub sector could materialise following the implementation of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report . |
| 17 | The great issue of the next week was whether Law could agree to attend the Carlton Club meeting which Chamberlain had summoned at short notice for the Thursday morning , 19 October . |
| 18 | The machines could have been used to pace the workers , or management could have monitored the utilisation rate of the various machines . |
| 19 | Surely it is a ludicrous notion to suppose that two scientists on their own in a remote basement lab could claim to solve the world 's energy problems so that the scientific community would take up this claim , that world leaders would ask for regular briefings and that there could be nothing in it at the end . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) That the court 's discretionary jurisdiction to stay criminal proceedings should be exercised very sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances ; that , while the longer the delay was the greater was the likelihood that the prosecution was at fault and that the defendant had suffered prejudice and the less the prosecution could explain the delay the easier it would be to infer fault , the question whether the defendant had discharged the heavy burden of demonstrating that it would be an abuse of the process of the court for the proceedings to continue , was to be considered in the light of all the circumstances without applying shifting burdens of proof ; and that , accordingly , since the district judge had correctly taken into account all the relevant factors , and had made no error as to the burden of proof , there were no grounds on which the High Court judge could have reversed the district judge 's decision not to grant a perpetual stay of the 1989 prosecution ( post , pp. 261B , 264E–F , G–H , 265A–B ) . |
| 21 | Sixty-one year old ‘ Smokin' Herb ’ Kelleher won the first round ( by substituting a Texas arm-wrestling champion who had legally changed his name to Herb Kelleher for the day ) , but 37-year old Herwald took the final decision , then announced that Southwest could continue using the slogan ‘ just to show there 's no hard feelings or to be accused of taking advantage of senior citizens ’ . |
| 22 | But no boy could fail to notice the hollows of his cheeks , which seemed to have been scooped out in deep , dark channels , or his eyes , which were ringed round with black , and bleary , and haunted . |
| 23 | Your boy could have taken the dive for the Mahoney kill . |
| 24 | How Prince could have known the thoughts of almost three hundred people is difficult to imagine , but it was not an opinion held by John Edward Gray of the British Museum , nor of Lord Derby . |
| 25 | The back lane could have provided the set for Chaplin 's The Kid . |
| 26 | In dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Rattee said that the taxpayer could have made the returns accompanied by an indication that there were matters still outstanding which might affect the contents of the returns . |
| 27 | But much energy is expended fruitlessly by parallel work by different bodies , who by pooling their resources and expertise could have expedited the work and improved its quality . |
| 28 | On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half . |
| 29 | It was a contrast to performances in recent Asian tournaments ( Hong Kong in 1988 and Sri Lanka in 1990 ) when the territory finished third , behind South Korea and Japan , and showed that with a bit of luck could have entered the finals . |
| 30 | The driver could have applied the brake but because of a defective ratchet , for instance , the brake could have slipped and as a result would not be effectively set . |