Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 2 | The Abbey National was less sanguine : ‘ This could effectively put a seal on the property market to the end of the year , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 3 | But I could only feel the sun on the back of my head and a sad , frightened sensation , as if something inside me was crying . |
| 4 | FARWELL L.J. : The plaintiffs could only accept the money on the terms upon which it was offered . |
| 5 | The earlier decomposition could reveal activities within the procedure that are amenable to monitoring ( such as adherence to bin-card re-ordering procedures ) , which could obviously have an effect on the success of the procedure as a whole . |
| 6 | Even HARPY , which brought its full syntactic and semantic knowledge to bear immediately , could not make a decision on a word-by-word basis . |
| 7 | ’ Pilinski had to redraw his copy of the old and valuable original because he could not paste the original on his block and engrave through it . |
| 8 | As Coote himself protested , both men were privately committed to legislation but believed they could not involve the government on the issue . |
| 9 | George could not face a life on his own , though I do n't think he would consider marrying because he is not a ladies ' man . |
| 10 | From where I sat I could not see the clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 11 | There was something in his attitude which worried Wycliffe but he could not put a finger on it . |
| 12 | We could not put the ship on the beach when we reached North Inlet because the sea was too high . |
| 13 | A regime that could not win a war on its own soil was ripe for reform . |
| 14 | Slimane Bekki and John Pyle said they could not calculate the effect on ozone depletion , but believed the northern hemisphere would be worst affected , because it has most of the main air routes . |
| 15 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 16 | She could not understand the look on his face , and she was afraid . |
| 17 | Among other things I hit on the idea of writing down a very simple minuet , in order to see whether she could not compose a variation on it . |
| 18 | I wonder if I could just raise an issue on item two three D on page four referring to horse riding because there is a concern about a , a lot of walkers , that horse riding on footpaths creates problems for them erm in , in terms of chewing up the path in , in such a way that they 're difficult to walk on , people even wearing boots . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 20 | She could still feel the imprint on her brow . |
| 21 | One company that could still make an impact on the world computer market is Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG — but only if Siemens is serious about remaining — outside Germany — a force in the computer industry . |
| 22 | We 've picked some of the best utilities that we believe could still find a place on your hard disk , even once you 've got MS-DOS installed there . |
| 23 | So she could always dump the baby on somebody . |
| 24 | The better view ( both for the logic of the law and for press freedom ) is that the expression of opinion may still be defended as " fair comment " if it can be shown to satisfy the test of whether a hypothetical fair-minded man could honestly express the opinion on the proven facts . |
| 25 | It could also have a bearing on its unusual style — no verbal testimonies from friends and colleagues , no old archive footage , just Van getting royally stoned on the music with some mates . |
| 26 | I think I could probably send a return on Tuesday erm but I 'd rather wait because if I can send stuff properly done rather than you know done to the latest or or the the pre-latest system then I will . |
| 27 | I could n't hold the car on the clutch and I rolled back down the hill , getting very embarrassed , especially when a man had to help me push the car up the hill again ! |
| 28 | Margaret could n't inflict a baby on her . |
| 29 | In front of her most of the herd seemed to be grazing alongside the path , on either side of it , but Brenda could n't leave the path on her bike . |
| 30 | Today Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker did announce an extra 3 million pounds to help with the drought in Southern Africa , but could n't give a commitment on future spending plans . |