Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both she and Dr Leitch spent as much time as they could spare talking to the young parents who would come to collect these patients on discharge . |
| 2 | I could 've done without the naughty words in the scrolly , but this is a minor niggle ( prude ! — Ed ) — Dutch Breeze 1 & 2 are mighty fine demos . |
| 3 | You mean they could 've , they could 've gone for the Soviet style collectivization ? |
| 4 | After years of living with Lewis she still knew but did not know that ‘ a man ’ could regard reading as the main business of the day and everything else as an interruption . |
| 5 | To maintain continuity , the paper suggests that firms should establish transitional arrangements for the handover : these could include arranging for the new partner to work on the audit team beforehand , and ensuring that other senior staff do not change in the same year . |
| 6 | Unless the circular speed of the Galaxy 's potential declines markedly towards the centre , only clouds dense enough to be strong CS emitters could survive shredding by the tidal field . |
| 7 | Diana could choose to stay within the Royal Family and be allowed a greater measure of freedom . |
| 8 | Firms could choose to operate under the new statute or retain their existing national corporate existence . |
| 9 | The continued marketing of products of dubious provenance , dubious efficacy , and dubious quality could bring discredit to a new approach to stopping smoking that seems to be of great potential benefit . |
| 10 | Knowing how rauch he could expect to earn on a regular basis from each market , he tailored his budgets accordingly . |
| 11 | Once the only route that Allied personnel could use to travel into the Soviet Sector , with the dismantling of the wall it is now redundant |
| 12 | No religion which contained vestiges of Judaic Messianic nationalism could hope to survive within the Roman imperium . |
| 13 | So you can vote to change , Harlow could vote to switch to a whole council system . |
| 14 | Their other purpose was apparently to bring Israel into the war ( probably entraining Israeli violation of Jordanian territory or at least its airspace ) , in the expectation that no Arab government could risk fighting on the Israeli side . |
| 15 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 16 | That trip must have revived Nicolae 's memories of his time in Stalin 's Moscow , but the frenzied adulation of Mao surpassed anything that Ceauşescu could have witnessed in the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 18 | I think he could have done with a general chapter on the French State , which would have placed Diderot more firmly in his times and made clearer the difficulties he encountered . |
| 19 | The little devils could have done with a firm hand ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It seems to me that both you and Peter could have done with the friendly shoulder of a mother to pour out your troubles to — you 're reliving something from your past . |
| 21 | Well we had er the business was quite good er we had er we could do , of course at the end of the war , we could have done with an awful lot more cars , but we could n't get them . |
| 22 | Dougal could have done without the B-movie dialogue . |
| 23 | In particular , she could have done without the bad jokes . |
| 24 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 25 | This could , however , suggest too late a date for the work at Trier ( for it is very unlikely to have been after 325 ) , indeed , Parlasca ( 1975 , 77 ) thinks the mosaicist could have travelled in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 27 | There will then be another round of letters , known as ‘ reasoned opinions ’ , after which , if no deal is struck , the matter could have to go to the European Court of Justice . |
| 28 | Mustelids very like modern stoats and weasels are the most common carnivores at Westbury ( apart from the cave bear which was probably only partly carnivorous anyway ) and they could have contributed to the small mammal faunas at Westbury . |
| 29 | At least two other specific developments could have contributed to the present sea-bird problem . |
| 30 | The report suggested that this was the reverse of the settings which would be expected and that this could have contributed to the homing errors . |