Example sentences of "could [vb infin] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 2 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 3 | At tournaments and trade shows he always offered ‘ open house ’ and you could eat and drink all day at his expense if you wished , and many did . |
| 4 | The sovereignty of Parliament meant that Parliament could make and unmake any law whatsoever ; there was no higher legislative authority ; and no court was in a position to declare Acts of Parliament invalid . |
| 5 | Workers were also questioned about such issues as whether they could design and plan important parts of their work , decide on day-to-day tasks , and decide the amount and pace of their work . |
| 6 | And even before the War , though Hewlett in correspondence with Harold Monro and Newbolt could give and take hard knocks by way of semi-technical criticism , yet it is enveloped and emasculated by similarly anxious camaraderie . |
| 7 | ones the or others , if you 're getting stuck on them , do n't miss something like this that you could do and get full marks . |
| 8 | Likewise , you look at any of the other scores that we had fairly high up , for example you rate your plant it 's a possibility there that you 've got you know you 've got these ideas that you 're not putting forward that you could do and develop that side of . |
| 9 | English Nature believes that the Pacific oyster , cultivated in Britain since the late 1960s , could spawn and establish wild colonies that would threaten the survival of native species . |
| 10 | People were increasingly better informed about social ills as the century wore on and how these could undermine and inhibit individual responsibility and freedom . |
| 11 | I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other . |
| 12 | Rain could try and get some answers from Barbara Coleman when they held their whispered conversation before Chagall 's windows , but she must make up her own mind about Maurin 's character . |
| 13 | Burkina Faso had some of the lowest literacy levels in Africa : only one out of every ten citizens could read and write any language . |
| 14 | And she 'd be sitting on the edge of her chair with a smile stitched to her face as she willed the rest of the party to get a move-on so she could go and make sure Camille was home and safe . |
| 15 | I think at that time you had to pay for it , but you could go and have ten minutes , sommat like that , and a cup of tea . |
| 16 | So , Howard could go and spend some money . |
| 17 | He had a cat flap in the flat door if he wanted to get into the rest of the house and Fenella had thoughtfully left my kitchen window wide open so he could come and go that way via the flat roof of the kitchen extension next door . |
| 18 | Working as a group , and supported by the teacher 's skilful questioning , the children together could extend and develop each other 's thinking in ways which a teacher with only one child could not . |
| 19 | In addition to dispensing , community pharmacists could offer the same range of services as their hospital counterparts : they could screen and recommend new products to prescribers , analyse prescribing patterns , and ensure safe and appropriate drug therapy since they would have access to patients ' notes . |
| 20 | There were trees with beautiful birds that could talk and say clever things . |
| 21 | I wore black stockings , tight skirts from Leeds C & A cheaper separates , the largest black sweater I could find and black high heels . |
| 22 | At the same time as writing down the reasons , other things came to mind which could illustrate and support those reasons , so they are jotted down too . |
| 23 | Every Elf city was required to have a martial field where its soldiers could train and fight mock battles . |