Example sentences of "could [vb infin] for the [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 2 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 3 | Thus the liberalism of 1808 could hope for the support of the intelligent lower clergy . |
| 4 | Moreover , Franco had seen in this development an aspect he could exploit for the reinforcement of his image as deliverer of the nation from evil . |
| 5 | You agreed that we could try for the purposes of this program to find out what we could about your criminal record and also about your health records . |
| 6 | Except , he could have for the minibus of course . |
| 7 | It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies . |
| 8 | He attempted to preserve from what he called the ‘ growing appetites of sacrilegious cormorants ’ Church revenues which could pay for the education of talented children of poor families . |
| 9 | Roman Wyatt … there was a man who could model for the hero of any romantic novel , if , that was , you liked all that raw sexual power . |
| 10 | This could allow for the consideration of a policy of expansion of the economy led by government expenditure . |
| 11 | If we could calculate accurately the consequential change in the electron 's momentum then we could allow for the effects of the collision and our knowledge would still be capable of being made exact . |
| 12 | If only this day could last for the rest of her life . |
| 13 | Eventually reason prevailed , at least on the part of Prince , who requested of Jardine ‘ any information ’ he could offer for the preservation of Gould 's precious collection . |
| 14 | To make the program more useful , it could ask for the names of the input and output files at " run time " . |
| 15 | Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants . |
| 16 | The best clues are almost certainly to be found by studying those aspects of brain function which , if they become deranged , could account for the symptoms of psychotic illness , and currently a considerable amount of research is in progress testing out various possibilities . |
| 17 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |