Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who could want to poison a whole family ? |
| 2 | An appointing authority could seek to exclude the implied term by express words , but that would not be an attractive course : appointing authorities have reputations to keep . |
| 3 | Experts could seek to exclude the implied duty of skill and care in individual references , but it is not attractive . |
| 4 | However , it must be emphasised that the flexibility shown by the local authority in approving this combination of residential and occupational functions within individual units is very unusual and was probably encouraged by the planners ' recognition that this approach could act to conserve a listed building with the least possible alteration of its character . |
| 5 | In fact , Kaprun and its neighbour Zell am See have everything that you could need to enjoy a perfect holiday in some of the most beautiful alpine scenery there is , including some excellent bars and restaurants for relaxing evenings and charming coffee houses for afternoon coffee and cake ; an experience that is not to be missed ! |
| 6 | States could choose to join the Soviet Union or the people 's Republic of China in the non-market part of the world economy . |
| 7 | You could choose to portray the positive achievements we 've witnessed or some aspect of that . |
| 8 | Previously a runner could choose to make the 900 foot ascent on the same direct route as the descent . |
| 9 | Such a companion volume , though different in flavour from the rest , could provide the necessary framework on which the detailed volumes could be hung in context , and to which the reader could refer to maintain an overall perspective of the series . |
| 10 | Davy at the end of his life remarked that the service of the laboratory was a service of danger ; that few chemists could expect to retain a quick eye and a steady hand for very long , and would have to rely on the hands and eyes of assistants . |
| 11 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 12 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 13 | But should go to another factory and er hold your own in the factory you could expect to get the full money , which I did at twenty one . |
| 14 | It could expect to defeat a lesser power like Argentina , but taking on Communist China was unthinkable . |
| 15 | Only operators able to fill their trains could expect to make a reasonable profit . |
| 16 | Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did . |
| 17 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 18 | As she realised that he must be completely and utterly naked there seemed nothing she could do to stop a deep tide of crimson from rising up over her cheeks . |
| 19 | By themselves , there is not much these countries could do to stop a determined assault by one of their big neighbours . |
| 20 | Obviously there was not much that any Government concerned in governing the United Kingdom could do to meet the wilder demands of the " Left is Right Group " , but , since it was never clear whether these were immediate demands or merely long-term hopes , Cabinet office for Carolan and Under — Secretaryships for one or two of his more articulate followers contrived to keep the group within the Parliamentary fold . |
| 21 | And as long as casualism persisted there was little that local agencies could do to break the downward spiral of underemployment , overcrowding and deprivation . |
| 22 | There was nothing she could do to disguise the swift rise and fall of her breasts and his eyes rested there before returning to capture her own gaze . |
| 23 | This is the best equation one could use to forecast the current value of that is given knowledge of the current composite disturbance , and is therefore the one which rational agents will use to forecast given their information . |
| 24 | As soon as it was launched in 1986 the East London Compact attracted a great deal of attention from people wishing to learn how a local Partnership between Education and Industry could work to enhance the educational experiences and vocational opportunities of young people . |
| 25 | The Act does not override the common law rights decided in the Birmingham case , and under that decision a councillor could claim to see the individual file if he could show a need to know . |
| 26 | to escape that , by fleeing into the countryside , very often into particularly backward and inaccessible areas of the countryside , where they would be safe from the security forces and where they hoped they could begin to create a new base among the peasantry . |
| 27 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |
| 28 | It was in these conditions that such amicable and intimate connections as existed between the two societies could begin to make a positive contribution , notably by facilitating and deepening the interchanges between policy-makers . |
| 29 | The paper set out by Mr. Dunkel provides a basis round which the United States , the Cairns group and the European Community could rally to provide a satisfactory settlement . |
| 30 | Thus one could contract to pass a restricted title , or whatever title one has in the goods . |