Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] could [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could be that some tracks could emerge on a compilation , however , ’ says SF 's Clive Selwood . |
| 2 | They showed that such models could start with a big bang , even though the galaxies were no longer always moving directly away from each other , but they claimed that this was still only possible in certain exceptional models in which the galaxies were all moving in just the right way . |
| 3 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 4 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | Such lords could provide for a number of gentlemen in their direct service , appointing to offices ranging from bailies and sheriffs-depute , procurators-fiscal , and clerks to such minor posts as regality officers and keepers of prisons . |
| 6 | However , the use of such supplements could result in a daily intake of fluoride two to six times the recommended dose . |
| 7 | By allowing the SiO4 units to rotate freely about their common oxygens and by making the bond-angle of the ‘ bridging oxygen ’ flexible , these chemists could conceive of a continuously connected random network that left the local order intact , but which destroyed the overall crystalline topology . |
| 8 | Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat . |
| 9 | Admiral Carlisle Trost , the chief of naval operations , has warned Congressmen in a letter that any cuts could result in a ‘ significant potential for strained relations with the United Kingdom ’ . |