Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 2 | But Mrs Rubinstein says she could only look for common themes . |
| 3 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 4 | Coniston School principal Madeleine Harvey hit back yesterday at claims that her teachers could not cater for four-year-old Nicholas . |
| 5 | I could not sleep for sheer fatigue . |
| 6 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 7 | Minors could not qualify for free shares under the terms of the recent Abbey conversion to a public limited company . |
| 8 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 9 | Certainly , if the latter did not want to be represented or could easily apply for judicial review in person , there might be no good reason to accord standing to a self-appointed representative . |
| 10 | A borrower had a personal covenant with the lender who could still sue for outstanding debts . |
| 11 | The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief . |
| 12 | We could n't tender for new business . |
| 13 | Dot did n't mind about the toys and she knew she could n't ask for ginger pop because that cost money but she would have liked to have had her victory token back . |
| 14 | While shaping describes a mechanism which could theoretically account for numerous changes in a child 's language , Skinner acknowledges that it is a somewhat laborious and inefficient way of learning . |
| 15 | Promotions Policy The Association identified that there should be a transparent policy within NIB by which individuals could actively apply for promotional positions . |