Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] could [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Spring Fever , he takes a look at what climatic change could mean for the flora and fauna of the British mainland . |
| 2 | If it was felt that these conditions would be insufficient to prevent ‘ serious public disorder ’ , then the chief officer could apply for a banning order — from the Home Secretary in London , or from the local council in any other part of the country . |
| 3 | The soft conventionalist could search for a more abstract consensus yet . |
| 4 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 5 | A comparatively cool Cytherean interior could account for the difference , though this raises the further question of how the Cytherean interior could be so much cooler than that of the Earth : has the tidal heating of the Earth 's interior by the Moon been important ( section 2.1.16 ) , or is the Cytherean interior depleted in the isotopes which can supply copious amounts of radioactive heat , namely , uranium , thorium and potassium ? |
| 6 | Widows , the only social position that a traditional society could envisage for a husbandless adult woman , have always been considered as inauspicious and undesirable people . |
| 7 | It was amazing , she thought when he had left the room , what food , wine and a sensational smile could do for a girl . |
| 8 | They were paid about double what a skilled man could expect for a fifty-hour week in return for working part-time at something that they enjoyed . |
| 9 | I suggested , as a very moderate compromise , that any aggrieved applicant could ask for a review of his or her file by the incumbent Chairman of the Bar . |
| 10 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |