Example sentences of "could come [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels . |
| 2 | ‘ Knowing the amount of people who could come over on cheap air fares and that 's another concern it could be a problem . |
| 3 | After all , there were only two ways that Harry could come on to Grace , the gangplank across from Maurice , on which Stripey lay digesting uneasily , or back to the wharf and round by the afterdeck . |
| 4 | In order to engage in such self-justification , the speaker must possess the ideological and argumentative tools for criticizing ‘ prejudice ’ , for the speaker wishes to escape from criticisms which could come equally from both self and audience . |
| 5 | erm We feel we can do well , I 'd be ecstatic if we could come away with a world championship point , I think we possibly can if we 're a bit lucky . |
| 6 | Such warrants might authorize single payments or a regular series ; and they could come either from Chancery or from the Privy Seal . |
| 7 | She rather gathered that what Travis was really asking was if he could come round to her flat and chat a few hours away about Rosemary . |
| 8 | It could come up under |
| 9 | Three generations of Dowdings have run the farm and used herbicides , pesticides and the best the agro-chemical producers could come up with to get the maximum yields . |
| 10 | There is a garage/café where souvenirs of a kind can be bought but only a very good marketing man could come up with something stunning from a spot where most of the time nothing is happening . |
| 11 | British filmmakers could come up with films that would overcome the resistance of American exhibitors to non-Hollywood products , as the $5 million grossed by The Red Shoes suggests , but they would n't do so in sufficient quantities until Rank had developed more sophisticated ideas about how to cajole the right sort of product from his writers , directors and producers . |
| 12 | Perhaps someone could come up with some better idea . |
| 13 | Product development departments could come up with fluorescent wolf-repellent bum-bags for £80 , and high-tech one-size bear-survival suits , built to withstand the claws of an angry grizzly for up to three minutes , and available in a range of attractive designer colours for only £350 . |
| 14 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 15 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 16 | But , given the money , I know we could come up with a British winner . ’ |
| 17 | The only disadvantage of the job that he could come up with was the ‘ vulture capitalist ’ image with which he is clearly uncomfortable . |
| 18 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 19 | Kathryn Flett 's well-written and often amusing text was coupled with the most outrageous designs Britain 's ‘ top design teams ’ could come up with . |
| 20 | Asked to paint a mental picture of the typical French intellectual , most people could come up with the significant details . |
| 21 | It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot . |
| 22 | Given the inherent uncertainty of moral interpretation in social life , it would be foolish to believe that we could come up with a definition of aggression that would allow us to unambiguously classify , much less measure , instances of aggressive conduct in unfamiliar societies . |
| 23 | It was only a theory but it had always amazed him , and the other field operatives , how Philpott could come up with solid cover stories at such short notice . |
| 24 | And what happened in eighty three and eighty seven of course was that the local elections take place the Conservative party managers analyzed the results , fed them through the computers and you could come up with the fact that you would , looked like you were set to win a general election . |
| 25 | He sought desperately for other examples , but the best he could come up with was , ‘ Things . ’ |
| 26 | Of course , like the sentences about the knight , the dragon , and the pineapple , they might form part of a discourse , and if we stretch our imaginations we could come up with a situation in which they do ; but this will not be by virtue of the words so and she , but because of some other information about the context . |
| 27 | This could be moved to Sunday if the Drama Department could come up with something more suitable . |
| 28 | She did n't offer her own opinion , not because she thought Paul 's design was necessarily as bad as Stephen claimed , but because she had a hunch that , in time , he could come up with something really sensational instead of merely pedestrian . |
| 29 | The action could not prejudice the specific property for which the receiver was responsible , so Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C was willing to wait and see if Tudor Grange could come up with suitable indemnities . |
| 30 | It was n't much consolation , but it was the best mental panacea she could come up with . |