Example sentences of "could [adv] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That could only have a detrimental effect on jobs in the company 's factories , and it had already started slimming its operations as a result of the significant decline in drilling activity . |
| 2 | THE New Statesman and Society could soon have a new owner if negotiations with Mr Robert Holmes a Court , the Australian entrepreneur , are successful , writes Georgina Henry . |
| 3 | A Scarborough fun park , which went into receivership last summer , could soon have a new owner and a potential early summer re-opening . |
| 4 | SOUTH Belfast could soon have a new watersports centre . |
| 5 | The SDP did not and could not have a good war . |
| 6 | The trial was , however , relatively small ( 59 patients ) raising the possibility of a type two error , and it is possible that fluticasone propionate was not present in sigmoid colon and rectum and this could not have a therapeutic effect ( two thirds of patients had rectosigmoid disease only ) . |
| 7 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 8 | Built in 1540 , these lovely red-brick stables have been loaned to the Horse Rangers by grace and favour since 1964 , and could not have a better tenant than this exclusive voluntary organisation — exclusive that is to children who do not have their own horses and ponies . |
| 9 | Soon after the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 outlawed surrogacy contracts , members of the British Medical Association at their annual meeting voted by a small majority , that surrogacy should be allowed as infertility ’ therapy ’ for couples who could not have a biological child any other way . |
| 10 | ‘ If I could just have a wholemeal loaf and the papers … and I need a tin of tomatoes and half a dozen eggs . ’ |
| 11 | With Copsey and Gareth Llewellyn improving all the time , we could just have a bright future ahead of us . |
| 12 | You 'd be hard pressed to see how a package costing , say , £49.95 could possibly have a special upgrade price , but Guildsoft manages it . |
| 13 | I could possibly have a half day next Monday . |
| 14 | Brady explained : ‘ Jack Charlton wrote to me , saying he was sorry about the way it had ended and expressing the hope that we could still have a decent relationship . |
| 15 | ‘ All this type of modern music that we play , if you think back to when it all started , whether it 's thrash , rap , disco , rock'n'roll , it all started with black people in slavery and poverty in the southern States , and about the only thing they could ever have a good time with was sex . |
| 16 | ‘ It could also have a major effect on existing shopping centres , particularly the smaller shopping parade at Marton . |
| 17 | Could n't have a normal education . |
| 18 | Hilary could n't have a better coach for GCE Maths . ’ |
| 19 | And the championship could n't have a better launch on Friday morning when Carrickfergus ' Michael McHugh meets Paul Daly of Belmont in the opening U-25 singles semi-final . |
| 20 | He knows how I feel , me being an only child … he 's a wonderful husband , I could n't have a better husband . |
| 21 | They could n't have a better time to do it . |
| 22 | but of course the main event of the year at Headingley is the Test Match , and say Yorkshire Cricket Club : ‘ You really could n't have a better view than from the comfort of an executive box . ’ |
| 23 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 24 | ‘ You could n't have a fairer face than Mary Bernadette Hogan , spinster of this parish , almost ten years of age , ’ said her father . |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't have a quick look through it , then ? ’ she said hopefully . |
| 26 | ‘ Our children play out on the street and there 's a plan to build a school on land nearby surely we could n't have a busy road where children are going to school ? ’ |
| 27 | We could n't have a social issue without reference to the regular social side of our NCT branch and have therefore emphasised the purpose of these meetings in this issue . |
| 28 | You could even have a do-it-yourself health farm treatment at home , by devoting your whole time to exercise , diet , sauna baths , or any of the programmes you would want from a health farm at about one-tenth of the cost . |
| 29 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 30 | Dick Hern would not be drawn into comparisons with Nashwan at the same stage of his career , but on yesterday 's evidence Hamdan Al Maktoum could well have a natural successor to his great champion . |