Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case . |
| 2 | Trie tried to persuade Sue to ask er them if the they could all change to Word at work . |
| 3 | It will be noted that section 37(3) refers to ‘ assets located within that jurisdiction ’ , a reference which reflects , but does not directly confirm , the understanding of the position which prevailed in 1981 , that an injunction could only attach to assets within England and Wales . |
| 4 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 5 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 6 | The only regret was that her parents could not come to England for her commissioning , though a report in the Australian War Cry announced that she had come " Dux " of the session and had trained the women cadets for the timbrel play at the commissioning . |
| 7 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 8 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 9 | Since SCOTVEC personnel could not respond to requests from all centres to run staff development events for them , each workshop was developed as a pack of information , examples and activities for participants together with extensive support material so that centres or Regions can themselves organise and run the events . |
| 10 | The Government could not point to evidence of particular abuse of power by trade unions . |
| 11 | As the hon. and learned Member for Burton said , that reversal could easily lead to miscarriages of justice that we could sort out now . |
| 12 | Confusion between the sources of faunal diversity could easily lead to mistakes in interpreting its meaning . |
| 13 | They may not be used extensively now , but countries could easily turn to halons as a replacement for some CFCs . |
| 14 | Many came to the door attempting to sell brushes , polish and so on , often carrying a card from the firm employing them explaining that they were disabled servicemen , I tremble to think that we could ever return to conditions like these . |
| 15 | However , it could also apply to parents in the ‘ leafy suburbs ’ , particularly in June , when older pupils could convince their parents that ‘ nothing much was happening ’ at school and persuade them to condone non-attendance . |
| 16 | If wider costs were to be considered , one could also look to savings from reduced pollution , energy consumption and accident rates , quite apart from the health maintenance benefits of a walking population . |
| 17 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 18 | I think my characters could really come to life in a film ’ . |
| 19 | I think my characters could really come to life in a film ’ . |
| 20 | The architect who could now travel to sites on a steam train and use technical terms and modern scaffolding had a different relationship with the client , who was more informed about what he wanted in the way of a new house in the country . |
| 21 | And the worst part was that she could n't talk to Elinor about it . |
| 22 | I could n't talk to Mama in the same way as I 'm doing now . |
| 23 | Mum 'd be there , she could n't go to work with this anxiety hanging over her . |
| 24 | I could n't adapt to conditions in this country . |
| 25 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 26 | But I could n't get to grips with it . |
| 27 | ‘ The setting of an arbitrary limit of 2,000 prescriptions per month before payment of the new allowances will adversely affect and could even lead to closure of up to one in five pharmacists in Cheshire . |
| 28 | His mount put in a series of sticky jumps and could never get to grips with Twin Oaks , who made all and came home clear for his eighth win over fences at the Lancashire course . |
| 29 | I could never come to terms with the Big Idea . |