Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 2 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 3 | ‘ After taking off from Bermuda , I thought I could catch up on some sleep . |
| 4 | Maybe this idea could catch on for older properties ? |
| 5 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 6 | Secondly , the Act laid down procedures whereby individual schools could opt out of local authority control , acquiring grant maintained status , and receiving their funding directly from the DES ( see Chapter 4 : 1988 Education Reform Act ) . |
| 7 | A NEW vaccine against the infectious liver disease Hepatitis A , ‘ Havrix ’ , has this week been introduced in the UK : a course of two injections in the arm followed by a booster which could give up to 10 years ' immunity . |
| 8 | Ministers could borrow up to fifty books at a time . |
| 9 | Built in 1898 of ‘ composite ’ construction , with iron riveted sides and an elm bottom , she could carry up to 25 tons . |
| 10 | He and his wife were badly shaken and decided to move out of Ulster so that their children could grow up under normal conditions . |
| 11 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 12 | Under this custom the colt 's owner paid a shilling over and above the actual cost of shoeing so that the men could send out for six pints of beer as a reward for the extra effort involved . |
| 13 | Your correspondent could refer back to Northern Echo archives and CSE , but meanwhile he should let the Sydney Harbour Bridge remain as part of the history of the now defunct Dorman Long group and of Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 15 | You could team up with another artist , possibly one who works in a contrasting discipline or technique . |
| 16 | Sun-tanned , fit and contented , we could look back on fourteen days of carefree cruising ; four hundred miles through some of the finest scenery in the British Isles with the freedom of the hills for good measure . |
| 17 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 18 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 19 | Apparently the Internet could run out of available addresses by 1995 and the Internet Engineering Task Force is now looking at ways of overcoming address limitations in the current Internet Protocol version 4 standard . |
| 20 | Apparently the Internet could run out of available addresses by 1995 and the Internet Engineering Task Force is now looking at ways of overcoming address limitations in the current IP version 4 standard . |
| 21 | Estimates suggest that there may be enough coal left to last a few more hundred years , enough oil to last perhaps 70 or so years and natural gas could run out within 50 years . |
| 22 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 23 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 24 | Thus we are told , for example , that in the late 1980s there are 10,000 Latin American students enrolled in Soviet universities compared with the 144 who were attending Patrice Lumumba in 1960 ; that in 1982 Latin Americans could tune in to Soviet radio broadcasting for 105 hours per week compared with only 63 in 1962 and that at least seventeen Soviet journals are now translated and distributed in Latin America , six of which also appear in Portuguese ( Blasier : 1983 , pp. 12–13 and pp. 191–2 ; Goldhamer : 1972 , p. 147 ) . |
| 25 | If they were stored as character strings they could occupy up to 10 bytes . |
| 26 | It was not worth the sulk and you 're ashamed of me are n't you that he could keep up for three days when required . |
| 27 | Organizers of a strike could face up to one year in prison or two years in a corrective labour camp , while participants would be liable to summary dismissal from their employment and a fine of up to Rbs3,000 ( about US$5,000 at the official rate ) . |
| 28 | He could face up to 10 years in prison . |
| 29 | The tigress is quick to surface when your young are threatened and I could face up to any bully to defend my own . |
| 30 | Mr Devine could face up to 300 lashes for the offence , his MP says that can not be allowed to happen . |