Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrasted in this way it seems improbable that madness and creativity could spring from the same source . |
| 2 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 3 | We could stay in a nice hotel . ’ |
| 4 | Well , you could stay in the spare room over with me , out in the bedroom in the back there , for thirty dollars a night ? ’ |
| 5 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 6 | ARABS are deeply worried that Bill Clinton 's victory could slow down the Middle East peace process and undermine a cosy relationship developed with the Bush administration . |
| 7 | During the process the bronze was bathed in a solution of zinc salts and , unless it was carefully washed afterwards , some of these zinc salts could persist in the remaining patina on the surface . |
| 8 | Their desperate attempts to cut expenditure in any way they could led to a sharp decline in print quality . |
| 9 | When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup . |
| 10 | Some institutional arrangement other than large-numbers competition needs to be found to safeguard the transaction from excessive opportunistic wrangling , which could siphon off the available gains from trade . |
| 11 | You could compensate for a too-stiff rod and poor reflexes — reflexes which you need for easing off when the hook bites into a lip — by using a stronger line . |
| 12 | A radical pluralism could build on the common ground emerging between these two traditions . |
| 13 | I contacted their next-of-kin and I undertook to pass on any scraps of information , or even rumour , that I could glean from every possible source . |
| 14 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 15 | In one mouthful she ate as much as twelve English farmers could eat in a whole meal . |
| 16 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 17 | Praxsys could deliver in the fourth quarter : early 1993 is more likely . |
| 18 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 19 | Nothing , however , could compare with the wholesale carnage committed by men among the short-tailed , or sooty , petrel , known to the sealers as the mutton bird . |
| 20 | There was everything that you particularly could want from a grand piano to a pin sold in Main Street . |
| 21 | A real mountain bastu is one of those experiences not to be missed , and all you could want after a hard day 's toil , a wonderful relaxant . |
| 22 | Religious networks could make for a unified effort or become the vertebrae of different segments of reformers whose conflicts were expressed in organisational diversity and competition . |
| 23 | The row could make for a strained atmosphere as Mr Major spends the Premier 's traditional weekend with the Queen . |
| 24 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 25 | They were received in one of the general 's famous caravans , and Stirling outlined the contribution his unit could make to the coming battle . |
| 26 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 27 | It could evolve as the necessary cost of processes beneficial to youth , or could instead be purely maladaptive , and evolve because of the pressure of deleterious mutations on populations . |
| 28 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 29 | However , subject to the normal exemptions and depending upon the individual employee 's particular circumstances , a liability to capital gains tax could arise on a subsequent disposal of the shares . |
| 30 | A second difficulty could arise from the Labour Party rule ( again dating from 1981 ) that a Leader in office as Prime Minister can be challenged for the Leadership at a Party conference if an election is requested by a majority of the conference on a card vote . |