Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sense-based definitions of words could contribute to the subsequent overlap process by providing more concise , pertinent definitions and reducing the chances of spurious overlaps due to inappropriate but co-incident word senses . |
| 2 | Merritt finished the MCC second innings off with figures of 7 for 28 off nine overs and gave his side a win by an innings and 122 runs , which showed the Kiwis could compete with the best in the land , and were hungry for greater success . |
| 3 | Concern was also expressed for the future of the British components industry if Ford showed less willingness to purchase British components than Austin Rover traditionally had done — thus any job losses could extend beyond the two firms engaged in the merger . |
| 4 | To the west his eyes could travel along the narrow road between the reed beds and the dykes to the flint-walled and Dutch-gabled cottages and the pantiled roofs of Lydsett village and the round tower of St Andrew 's Church . |
| 5 | It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul , stirring the desire that lay there waiting to be aroused , as each of them recalled the passion they had shared the previous day . |
| 6 | Small animals could live off the whisps of yellow grass that persisted in growing , and large animals could live off the small animals . |
| 7 | The type of off-farm work occasionally dictated the enterprises that the farm could have as time off at critical periods could clash with the off-farm employment . |
| 8 | Not wishing to be a pansy , I stepped up my pace too , but I was no match for the male legs I was pursuing since both of my spindly little limbs could fit into the right leg of his breeches . |
| 9 | UNCTAD 's annual report on the least developed countries ( LDCs ) , issued on Feb. 11 , said that these countries could benefit from the new international situation and especially from the settlement of long-standing conflicts , which would permit resources to be diverted from military purposes and the care of refugees to improve economic prospects . |
| 10 | Such movements could add to the downward spiral which the poorer productivity countries would experience from the SEM programme . |
| 11 | Objects could fall into the black hole , but nothing could escape . |
| 12 | Schönhuber manoeuvred around the ‘ old Nazi ’ tag , while making plain that not only was he proud to have been in the Waffen SS , but that there was indeed something worthwhile that Germans could salvage from the Nazi era . |
| 13 | Two by-elections at the Wrekin and one at Dover showed the threat that independents could pose on the anti-spending tack , and Lord Salisbury tried to guide the agitation into respectable channels through a People 's Union for Economy . |
| 14 | Underlying the CBI and IoD concern is the worry that Cadbury 's proposals could lead to the two-tier board structure that both bodies have vehemently opposed for many years . |
| 15 | It would appear unlikely that a difference of two water molecules could account for the large destabilisation observed and it is therefore probable that minor groove hydration is not the singularly most important destabilising effect the sequence currently under investigation . |
| 16 | These cost-push Keynesians could look at the bleak unfolding of events from the late 1970s onwards with a justifiable sense of Schadenfreude . |
| 17 | The idea is among those that have been taken over successfully into the theory of evolution by John Maynard Smith , who has shown why the evolutionarily stable strategy in a given situation may not be the strategy that would bring most benefit to every individual — the catch being that the only way all individuals could benefit from the best possible strategy , is for all to agree to pursue that strategy . |
| 18 | Before the dropping of the atomic bombs , the Americans had feared that the Russians would not honour their pledge to join the war against the Japanese , and it is believed that the Allied forces were held back in Europe , so that the Russian troops could advance through the eastern part of Europe into Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | An answer to the originating summons in favour of the plaintiff would mean that the appeals could continue before the Special Commissioners without the plaintiffs ’ first having to undertake the long and expensive task of compiling the information for the Revenue . |
| 20 | Dennis Sciama , of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Trieste , teased out the consequences the neutrinos could have for the dark-matter debate in a journal , Nature , a week before the conference . |
| 21 | There was little class consciousness in the European sense among the peasantry or urban workers in the nineteenth century , though occupational groups such as washermen , carters or fishermen could unite at the local level to protect their economic interests . |
| 22 | Delegates could choose from the whole range of subjects throughout but the Dance Section had such a wide variety of topics and practical workshops that it hard to find time to fit everything in . |
| 23 | Rather , the danger is that a nuclear war between two minor powers could draw in the major powers with their enormous arsenals . |
| 24 | These latter changes could contribute to the increased glandular content of digestive enzymes observed after ethanol feeding and may predispose the gland to autodigestion . |
| 25 | These peripheral pharmacokinetic changes could account for the beneficial motor effects of Ro 40-7592 administered with levodopa . |
| 26 | A new opportunity for such changes could come in the current review of the board by its chairman , Andrew Large . |
| 27 | Michael Croggon 's studies could help save the Amazonian rain forests … but only if he can find the money to fund his own daily care . |
| 28 | Since the virus can spread through blood , transfusions could account for the 25 per cent of AIDS victims who are not gay . |
| 29 | The State tried to expropriate the produce even of peasants , gardens , but native cunning — bargaining with , and even bribing , officials of dubious enthusiasm for the Party line — often meant that rural households could escape from the worst deprivations of the towns . |
| 30 | Rival small company market(s) could develop along the above lines and would provide a considerable degree of competition to the ISE . |