Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any one year the Soviet Union could choose to substitute up to 750,000 tonnes of any one commodity for another . |
| 2 | ‘ This team will improve and we could expect to finish round about eighth in the Premier League without buying a player . ’ |
| 3 | Only political units which were small and remote from the international conflicts which agitated the greater powers , as were the Swiss cantons and some of the city-states of Germany and Italy , could hope to dispense permanently with some more or less effective form of kingship . |
| 4 | If the answer to that is yes , then we proceed to discuss the criteria and the panel could proceed to report accordingly on those . |
| 5 | I had no quarrel with them although I was suspicious of them , and doubtless jealous that they had so much of Joyce 's attention and that they could wish to band together with one another . |
| 6 | Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning . |
| 7 | With the London shop flourishing the Ashleys could afford to worry less about oppilative buyers . |
| 8 | But it is at present bidding on a lot of new contracts and chief executive Ken Miller believes defence profits could start to turn up in 1993 . |