Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 2 | Therefore , where a document is a copy , the other party could only make significant use of this fact to question the probative value of the evidence if serious questions could be raised regarding the procedures by which the copy was made . |
| 3 | Patrick could only understand one word of the shouted order and that word was ‘ hostage ’ . |
| 4 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 5 | I could not stand another hour of the man himself or his bleating sheep of a wife , ’ she said tartly . |
| 6 | After a review of the state of research , the government decided , in 1988 , that it could not justify continued expenditure of £100 million a year on a project with such an elusive prospect of commercial return . |
| 7 | I could not bear any imputation of disloyalty to my second husband . |
| 8 | She could not bear any form of contact with a man under any circumstances . |
| 9 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 10 | All else apart , I could not forget that movement of his hand to his pocket when ‘ Parsons ’ knocked at the door . |
| 11 | Our principal method for gathering the information about care programming which we report here was direct interviews with practitioners , but this could not give any indication of the applicability of our findings to other areas . |
| 12 | The Conservative and Liberal leaders told the Prime Minister that they could not countenance new taxation of the order of 100 million , and that only further substantial cuts in expenditure , particularly in unemployment benefits , could restore public confidence . |
| 13 | However , even with his extensive travels and campaigns , Charles could not maintain personal supervision of everything and so he appointed travelling supervisors or commissioners , known as missi dominici . |
| 14 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 15 | About one-third of the delegates ( including two of the by then three New Forum delegates to the round table talks ) declared , however , that they could not support this aspect of the programme . |
| 16 | It would be hard to see how communication could take place if we could not take some sort of mutually shared knowledge for granted , if every discourse had to begin from scratch . |
| 17 | If I had no grasp on the shape of the maze , that is , at least its basic spatial properties , I could not understand any ascription of behaviour to the rat . |
| 18 | The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision . |
| 19 | I could not get that figure of five hundred out of my mind . |
| 20 | We could n't do the likes of , we could n't invite Glyndebourne in or the Welsh National Opera because we just could not have that scale of operation on . |
| 21 | You see Madam Deputy Speaker , deregulation unless we 're very careful , could just become another layer of bureaucracy with a whole new sub culture of civil servants being consulted as to whether something should be deregulated or not . |
| 22 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 23 | Nicola could hardly tell one end of a camera from the other . ’ |
| 24 | Although the new experimental science of genetics was now turning its back on Lamarckism and the idea of directed variation , the paleontologists could still influence popular understanding of evolution . |
| 25 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 26 | It was absurd to imagine that a modern city could still evoke that kind of magic ! |
| 27 | With a bit of imagination , the FA and their kit suppliers could conceivably produce any number of kits . |
| 28 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 29 | The polishers , and several other groups could also reach that level of pay . |
| 30 | The conflict of interests was certainly a significant factor in the south-east , where the land tax was relatively highly assessed and where the new monied men had made a noticeable intrusion into local economic life , though it could also possess some degree of reality in more remote parts , such as South Wales . |