Example sentences of "could [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 3 | Clearly individuals could survive at a low standard of physical efficiency and in housing which to those accustomed to greater comfort was grossly overcrowded and substandard . |
| 4 | After you have studied these papers , I would be pleased to know if you could appear at the public inquiry to present evidence in support of the Regional Council 's case and , in particular , on the supply and demand for office floor space in the Edinburgh area , and the poor marketability of Millerhill as a location for major office and class 4 business development . |
| 5 | But these inconveniences can not be related to those which could result at a given moment from the capture by the enemy of three or four battalions , with a loss , by consequence , of several thousands of men . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These cost-push Keynesians could look at the bleak unfolding of events from the late 1970s onwards with a justifiable sense of Schadenfreude . |
| 8 | And when the platform emptied , he could see at the very end of it , a forlorn figure sitting all by herself . |
| 9 | At peak capacity some 56 people — seven teams of eight surgical staff — could work at the same time . |
| 10 | I called the meeting in New York during our chairmanship of the Security Council so that the council could meet at the highest level to reaffirm and develop its commitment to peacekeeping and peacemaking . |
| 11 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 12 | Hopes and expectations were high ; Britain was desperate for a car that could compete at the top level with Alfa Romeo and Ferrari , and BRM , with the backing of British industry , was the car to do it . |
| 13 | Only his wife Mary , always calm , and still , at the age of forty , a great beauty , could guess at the real distress which tore at him . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
| 15 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 16 | He marched out of the barracks to make his way to the station — he wondered how long it would be before he could walk at a normal pace . |
| 17 | At any moment the Roman army could arrive at the narrow strait which separated their holy island from the mainland of north Wales , and they had no protection , except the super-natural powers they felt they could command . |
| 18 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 19 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 20 | No , the only way the Seven could get at The New Hope would be to try to blow it out of the sky from below . |
| 21 | The Kingscote mosaic itself , like those of rooms 5 , 11 and 14 at Chedworth , could lie at a stylistic crossroads ' . |
| 22 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |