Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke halted trials of the American-style side handled baton saying : ‘ It could fundamentally alter for the worse the style of policing in this country . |
| 2 | They could successfully compete with the true mammals who also evolved in the late Triassic ( and who also acquired the upright gait shortly after the archosaurs ) . |
| 3 | The court rejected this proposition , but went on to consider whether the Secretary of State could justifiably depart from the judicial view on tariff . |
| 4 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 5 | For Schopenhauer , valuable as all the arts were , music was the art which uniquely penetrated the depths of metaphysical reality and expressed the essence of that reality , the will , directly : " the composer reveals the innermost nature of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his rational faculty does not understand " , Words , on the other hand , like the instruments of reason that they are , could only intrude from the secondary world of physical phenomena , with which true music was not concerned . |
| 6 | In the meantime they could only speculate about the revealed cosmos . |
| 7 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 8 | ‘ And if I could only reach inside the back pocket of my jeans , I 'd show you the paperwork to prove it . ’ |
| 9 | Having heard of her relationship with John , the Girls looked at her in fascination , and could only talk about the wonderful clothes this woman wore . |
| 10 | The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement . |
| 11 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 12 | When man and woman were innocent the Evil One 's power was not great enough to take the world by force : he could only operate outside the human race as a whisperer of lies and delusions . |
| 13 | But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion . |
| 14 | At Ashburnham , Brown created a late eighteenth-century sense of ‘ wilderness ’ that could only come from the utmost ingenuity ; sudden ‘ surprise ’ views of the house replaced the structured avenues and rigid vistas of earlier occupants . |
| 15 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 16 | I sneaked a look at face , although I could scarcely see through the veiled curtain which had so mysteriously woven its way around my eyes . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the LEF-1 binding site could functionally substitute for the bacterial DNA-bending protein integration host factor ( IHF ) , suggesting that the HMG box moiety could act to create higher order nucleoprotein structures by bringing together widely spaced binding sites . |
| 18 | On this particular problem it would be excellent if we could just go to the Black community and say ’ Hi brothers and sisters We have a problem with this outmoded ritual ’ And they would respond in this way ’ good , let us all drop it ’ . |
| 19 | Given economic growth and open markets , that figure could easily double in the next five years , and again in the next five , putting China into the top rank of the world 's traders and helping maintain the growth rates of its Asian neighbours . |
| 20 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 21 | She noticed he was n't peering , eyes wrinkled , as she had — just gazing , as if he could easily see through the dense Undersea drift . |
| 22 | She could hardly hide behind the four walls of her father 's house for the rest of her life , but the mere thought of re-entering any sort of social scene was enough to make her feel ill . |
| 23 | That equitable doctrine , however , could hardly apply in the present case because the variation here might be said to have been made without consideration . |
| 24 | Rather than destroy heathen temples , Pope Gregory the Great in a letter to St Augustine of Canterbury in AD 601 advised that they should be converted into churches so the people could still go to the usual site of their worship , to worship the one God instead of many . |
| 25 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 26 | In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen . |
| 27 | Swapo thought they could still depend on the Damara vote . |
| 28 | In the Fifties and Sixties , when her descendants could still fit around the same table , we gathered for Christmas at Bowhill , near Selkirk . |
| 29 | E VEN at this late hour , psephology , demographics and luck suggest that the Tories could still emerge as the biggest single party in a hung Parliament . |
| 30 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |