Example sentences of "could [vb infin] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing , however , could compare with the wholesale carnage committed by men among the short-tailed , or sooty , petrel , known to the sealers as the mutton bird . |
| 2 | The type of off-farm work occasionally dictated the enterprises that the farm could have as time off at critical periods could clash with the off-farm employment . |
| 3 | She could do with the extra money . ’ |
| 4 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 5 | The County Council 's environmental consultants had said of the inner northern routes , rather than damaging an irrepr irreplaceable sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 6 | Not one of the little piece picking a little piece out , but an overall assessment and this was produced for the County Council by their environmental consultants and was specifically referred to in the County Surveyor and I think County Planning Officer 's joint report , and that er assessment said , rather than damaging an an irreplaceable , sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 7 | He points out that no matter where a report is filed from , it takes the place of another and was optimistic that the organisation could cope with the extra cost . |
| 8 | And we know there are various er responses to that question , and I would be looking to the districts to say whether or not they could cope with the various levels of provision that have been identified for Greater York , and it 's the view of whether they can cope within their own districts , I have n't said how you can cope , I said whether you can cope , you might I will I will leave you free to make the odd comment , but I want to focus on that part of the issue , and then the natural corollary to that is , will it be necessary , or is it considered necessary in the context of this alteration to provide specific guidance within H One policy for the distribution of that er development to er at sub , what I would call sub-district level , in other words do you want a specific entry for say Ryedale or Hambledon ? |
| 9 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 10 | Even Idris who er they 're desperate for but he Idris did n't think you know , he could cope with the four churches . |
| 11 | Well I mean you could go with the new treasurer , but they would drive , so erm . |
| 12 | Originally , the Government and British Rail management said that there was no need for a dedicated rail route from the channel ports , and that we could manage with the existing railway infrastructure . |
| 13 | It seemed that anybody could live with the small Louis XIV marquetry table , more an objet d'art than a piece of furniture . |
| 14 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 15 | The final crunch could come with the full moon on Thursday — but you will be well able to handle any problems that may arise . |
| 16 | Or we could comply with the 30 October 1993 rule but amend the accounting reference date within the first nine months of incorporation , as we may , and draw up accounts to 31 October 1993 , which is within the seven day period allowed by s 223(2) . |
| 17 | ‘ That season ’ , he reckons , ‘ I discovered I had something to offer ; that I could play with the big boys . |
| 18 | Clausewitz , the great German philosopher of war , used the term " friction " to cover all the hassles and difficulty that could interfere with the smooth running of a plan . |
| 19 | He could start with the federal government itself . |
| 20 | She had been reluctant to put it away , wishing she had no other commitments so that she could continue with the next chapter and looking forward to getting down to work again the following morning . |
| 21 | They could deal with the ill-organized forces of eastern Europe 's revolutionary outbursts . |
| 22 | Put bluntly , it did so because it failed to convince enough people it could deal with the Conservative legacy and had a plausible philosophy of wealth creation of its own . |
| 23 | ‘ I tell you , there are times when I could agree with the good doctor of Norwich , old Tom Browne , that it were better if we humans propagated in the manner of trees . |