Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease . |
| 2 | A new drug which could slow down the onset of Aids in people infected with the HIV virus is undergoing trials in America . |
| 3 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |
| 4 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 5 | Gradually , almost imperceptibly , the light strengthened and soon he could make out the shape of boats , the mexeflote causeway and the patchwork of woods and fields on the island . |
| 6 | From the front window I saw Jo climb into the BMW and as the interior light went on , I could make out the shape of the man driving . |
| 7 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 8 | I could make out the tracery of blonde down on the edge of her cheek . |
| 9 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 10 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 11 | Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters . |
| 12 | At the edge of hearing , as she turned back into her room , she could make out the shuffling of crockery . |
| 13 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 14 | It was dark down below , but she could make out the shapes of beer kegs . |
| 15 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 16 | Anne could make out the ridges of her sister 's knuckles . |
| 17 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 18 | But that programme may be doomed because of the uncertainty over MX and concern that the explosion of the nuclear warhead could knock out the missiles in their silos as well as the incoming warhead . |
| 19 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 20 | One of the conditions of the original purchase from Wedgwood was that it could buy back the house for £1 if we had not completed the restoration within five years . |
| 21 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 22 | If this fails to hold the situation then review the case and see if there have been any changes or new information come to light that would enable you to select a more similar remedy which could carry on the work of the first remedy . |
| 23 | As early as 1879 , the union secretary was reporting in consternation : " so highly are they prized that one master who employs 20 girls vauntingly said that with his girls and the … foreman , he could carry on the work of his establishment , dispensing with journeymen ! " |
| 24 | She was discharged from hospital within a week and by that time , could carry out the majority of her normal activities . |
| 25 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 26 | If only they could conjour up the magic of their last meeting against Milwall last season … three nil the score then . |
| 27 | But no one in Class 1 had seemed unduly disturbed by his account of them , even if the Husayn twins had said that pigs were ‘ boring ’ and had asked if they could bring in the novelization of Terminator Two . |
| 28 | A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor . |
| 29 | I leaned further over until I could see down the line of houses . |
| 30 | By measuring the trace amounts of radioactive carbon in coral skeletons , which decays at a known rate , he could work out the ages of the corals at different depths in his boreholes . |