Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Americans and Australians could play sport for more of the year but they did so in a more positive , meritocratic context where success was admired and recognized for its own sake . |
| 2 | This will generate at a cost of 10 pence per kilowatt-hour but the Department of Energy has stated that 20 to 30 such aerogenerators could produce electricity for one-third of this cost . |
| 3 | Like the M40 , the CPRE warns , those roads could become magnets for new villages , hotels and superstores … and hasten the day when the Oxfordshire countryside really is submerged under concrete and tyres . |
| 4 | Most patients in both groups could defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes ( usually for much longer periods ) and could discriminate satisfactorily between flatus and faeces . |
| 5 | House prices up by one-third over two years could spell disaster for those leaving Britain who sold but did not reinvest in the housing market before returning home . |
| 6 | The decree also established from Jan. 1 , 1991 , currency exchanges where enterprises could sell roubles for hard currency . |