Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due in the second quarter of next year , the machine , originally code-named the A20 , could eventually go up to 20 CPU . |
| 2 | The system will likely be the first in a series of RS/6000 multi-processors that could eventually incorporate up to 16 CPUs . |
| 3 | and we we 've always thought that , you know , to have a beat officer that was going around that could perhaps turn up at any time , would at least be some deterrent in so much that |
| 4 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |
| 5 | We could only carry on like this for so long , and it all depended on how well we could sleep during the day . |
| 6 | In its original form NT could only support up to three processors , Sequent says , and was not a scalable . |
| 7 | And you could already write up in red pen you sort it out instead of arguing about trying to do it . |
| 8 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
| 9 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 10 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 11 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 12 | Employers could not pass on in full these extra costs to the consumers because of the competitive international situation , with the result that profitability fell . |
| 13 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 14 | For example , the US firm , RCA , one of the pioneers of TV technology and the first to produce a commercial monochrome TV set in 1946 , could not keep up with later developments , was bought by GE during the 1980s and is now owned by the French firm , Thomson . |
| 15 | ‘ People were extremely disappointed that conservationists could not come up with exciting positive solutions for potential land that might come out of agriculture , ’ says Miss Appleby . |
| 16 | If I could just pick up on one point erm and that was related to the the two different types of inner relief road that that was proposed . |
| 17 | With our size we could just put up by eight per cent . |
| 18 | Now if I could just come back to one other thing , cos Tim Pat was raising it . |
| 19 | Anyone managing to get on top of the porch could easily clamber up through that bedroom window . |
| 20 | On the other hand a case lasting 2 years which went to trial where both liability and quantum were both heavily contested could easily rack up between 30 and 50 hours without too much difficulty . |
| 21 | Station Officer Eric Warrior , of Middlesbrough Fire Station , said anyone entering the building could easily fall up to 15 metres into the basement of the premises . |
| 22 | Those facts aside , Masham Methodists could possibly reach out to 80 couples who were married in the church . |
| 23 | The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media . |
| 24 | In the first place , the mass media are ‘ so deeply embedded in the [ political ] system that without them political activity in its contemporary forms could hardly carry on at all ’ . |
| 25 | Actually in honesty they have taken quite a bit out of there , cos there was an awful lot of stuff in there , you could hardly get in at one stage now what are you gon na do with these bike things , are you gon na chuck them ? |
| 26 | Everything was done by hand , but the famers could still shear up to three thousand animals at a time , washing all the fleeces in the nearby Sherbourne Brook . |
| 27 | That was a good sign , but Jack could still come out at any time . |
| 28 | Maybe old people could still get up to that kind of thing . |
| 29 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 30 | With a de Goth or Canteloupe as archbishop of Bordeaux , and an Armagnac as archbishop of Auch , the alliance of higher clergy and nobility was assured , although family feuds could always spill over into ecclesiastical politics . |