Example sentences of "could [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 2 | Erm I would , I think it would be very useful if you could make time in the next day or so , you do n't have to spend long on this you know , if you just spent sort of |
| 3 | A presidential candidate could win election on the first round only by gaining an absolute majority of the votes cast by at least one-quarter of registered voters ; otherwise the election would be decided by a second-round run-off between the two candidates with most votes . |
| 4 | This process will identify critical areas where lack of performance could prevent progression to the next stage . |
| 5 | The Permanent Court held that although the parties to a treaty could bestow rights upon a third party there was a presumption against this , a presumption which Poland had not rebutted . |
| 6 | If it ‘ saw ’ a way to take a queen it would do so , even if the opponent could give mate on the next play . |
| 7 | He learned that Tank had introduced Richter to Peron and the physicist managed to persuade the dictator that he could project Argentina into the 21st century ahead of its competitors and , in turn , make Peron appear one of the most enlightened leaders of the century . |
| 8 | In the Fifties the question was whether you could claim protection under the Fifth Amendment , which grants the right not to incriminate oneself . |
| 9 | In the end not even Jackson could keep Palace in the 1st Division . |
| 10 | TEETHING troubles with America 's second space shuttle , Challenger , could disrupt plans for the first flight of Europe 's Spacelab this autumn . |
| 11 | England , who could meet Brazil in the second phase , may find the exercise more worthwhile than an hysterical afternoon at Lansdowne Road . |
| 12 | VAT on books could cut sales by a 5Th and up to 200 jobs in Oxford may be at risk . |
| 13 | This would tie in with the kind of creature that could take advantage of the first abundance of flowering plants and special insects emerging in the late Cretaceous . |
| 14 | A statement issued after talks with his conservative rival Ruslan Khasbulatov said the meeting of the Congress of People 's Deputies to ratify an expected power-sharing agreement could take place in the first ten days of March . |
| 15 | She could hear voices in the next room . |
| 16 | LOGO and the languages which follow could allow people of the Third World to recover control of their cultural and educational development for the first time since elite education began to be Europeanised last century . |
| 17 | The second item of erm correspondence is from Bromley 's Bromley 's Social Services , if you remember , we 've got this on going campaign on home helps and along side that we 've got erm , we did hear of t his home shopping erm campaign that Bromley do , apparently quite successfully , the MP has mentioned that , so I thought I 'd get some details of that erm , it gives the whole procedure for , for the er shopping and the delivery and the Social Services pay out for it , they pay a charge , erm if you 'd like this copied , I could get copies for the next meeting , but meanwhile I 'd recommend that erm we take it up with Benefits Action tomorrow on the campaign . |
| 18 | The DM50m ( £1 =DM.2.86 ) facility would have a capacity of 10,000 t pa and could start operation in the third quarter of 1994 . |