Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The plan is to use that money as a launching pad for further funds that could eventually result in major building work , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The work , if confirmed , could eventually lead to clinical application in the treatment of aplastic anaemia and malignancy . |
| 3 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 4 | It was like the blackout , which Charles could suddenly remember with great clarity . |
| 5 | For some reason she could only move with nightmarish sluggishness , while everyone around her tore past with dizzying speed . |
| 6 | The rear gunner loosed off a round of deadliness in the general direction of the fighter , but , it seemed , he was not the target and Biggins could only watch in morbid fascination as his wing man went down in flames . |
| 7 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 8 | Less than two centuries ago , when the English Romantics saw the Alps they could only stare with wild surmise . |
| 9 | Taken aback , she could only stare in wide-eyed silence at the man who had materialised out of nowhere at her side . |
| 10 | Occasionally she would allow her gaze to drop on to one of the other patients with a look which Theodora could only interpret as startled amazement . |
| 11 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 12 | I decided that neither one was a social system and that one could only speak of social change in social systems . |
| 13 | ‘ It was felt that the Government 's proposals could only lead to inadequate funding which would inevitably force many practitioners to leave duty solicitor schemes and indeed the criminal practice permanently . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It was felt that the Government 's proposals could only lead to inadequate funding which would inevitably force many practitioners to leave duty solicitor schemes and indeed the criminal practice permanently . ’ |
| 15 | Compassion could only lead to increased confusion , for it would be wasted on her . |
| 16 | With PC E-mail standards being proprietary , users could only connect to other LAN users . |
| 17 | Certainly he was convinced from the beginning that a solution could only come through Algerian self-determination and the democratically expressed will of the French people . |
| 18 | He could thus rely on royal backing while he used the duchy as an arena in which to demonstrate his own good lordship . |
| 19 | He could thus rely on royal backing while he used the duchy as an arena in which to demonstrate his own good lordship . |
| 20 | It had lasted thirty minutes longer than usual ; Dr Alex Mair took the view , which he could normally enforce by brisk chairmanship , that little original thought was contributed to a discussion after three hours of talking . |
| 21 | Over a hundred thousand people have fled their homes as a result of increasing Khmer Rouge activity ; it 's feared this could soon escalate into civil war . |
| 22 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 23 | A DEPRESSED mum has vanished with her three mischievous sons after saying she could not cope with long school holidays and mounting debts . |
| 24 | The revolutionaries tended to be drawn from those who could not cope with normal life , with a regular profession , with human relationships . |
| 25 | British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism |
| 26 | I could not sleep for sheer fatigue . |
| 27 | Waterwheels could not function at low water , so adjustable wheels were made . |
| 28 | Grunwald argued that since the foundation of the sociology of knowledge was ‘ axiological ’ rather than a science with an epistemology , it could not engage in empirical research . |
| 29 | In the face of unprecedented levels of unemployment , the unemployed themselves were pressing demands on the West Ham Board of Guardians for adequate levels of relief — demands that the guardians could not meet without heavy borrowing from the government . |
| 30 | Scott could not succeed without outside finance , and soon this was supplied by David Astor , then editor of the London Observer , who put up half the money for a new venture , the Central African Mail , which began publishing in 1960 . |