Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd be grateful if you could spare time for a fitting , and I did think it would be a good idea if I could hold a rehearsal of everyone concerned in my part of the show before the official one . |
| 2 | Cleveland and Yorkshire North MEP David Bowe has told campaigners that the EC could grant money for a feasibility study if the line whose future is threatened by British Steel 's decision to transfer Redmire quarry limestone from rail to roads from September was part of a regional transport plan … |
| 3 | On May 4th , before a meeting of the Council of the Americas , he said that the only way he could build support for a system of open trade was to apply the laws that Congress had put in place , and to hold America 's partners to agreements they have made . |
| 4 | They thought they could make fun of a country girl , but my answer took them by surprise . |
| 5 | For instance " Chocolate-coated Bees Gain in UK Popularity " could attract attention for a general survey on sweet-eating habits in the UK ; or " Stamping Machine Breaks the Million Barrier " could stimulate interest in a release on a new piece of machinery . |
| 6 | The terms of employment are negotiable and could include secondment for a period of not less than three years . |
| 7 | Guided by the tape , the student would examine his specimen , consult his workbook , compare with a slide , perform a task , consider implications and respond to questions ; he could stop the tape and replay it whenever he wished , and if he was really stuck he could seek guidance from a teaching assistant , or Dr Postlethwait , or a fellow student , or the library . |
| 8 | And yet , if a circle of blisters caused by the plague could give rise to a Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses , and the famous Dick Whittington cat was not introduced until about 150 years after Dick died , why should embellishment through the ages not have taken King Coel or Coilus to Old King Cole , completed with pipe , bowl and fiddlers three . |
| 9 | For example , posing the question ‘ What happens if the stationery replenishment procedure fails ? ’ could give rise to a variety of answers . |
| 10 | An invisible barrier put up between different departments in a financial organisation , preventing them from discussing matters which could give rise to a conflict of interest . |
| 11 | Each notification could give rise to a demand for the excess sum stated in the policy . |
| 12 | It should be noted that we do not require immediate notification of any claim but in fact of any event which could give rise to a claim under the policy . |
| 13 | But that part of it which is used in your business would n't be exempt , and could give rise to a gain . |
| 14 | It may be doubted , for example , that a single act could give rise to a sensation of harassment ; it would be an unusual use of language to say that a person was harassing another by a single act ( such as a wolf whistle ) , since that term generally connotes an element of persistence . |
| 15 | If there were such a mechanism , if a cloud resembling a weasel or a camel could give rise to a lineage of other clouds of roughly the same shape , cumulative selection would have the opportunity to get going . |
| 16 | I could see daylight through a keyhole . |
| 17 | Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time . |
| 18 | A word in the wrong place , a petty curse pursued into an even pettier vendetta and Hessian could crush clog for a lifetime . |
| 19 | So , for example , a single engineering project could provide evidence of a candidate 's achievement in outcomes of specialist engineering and maths and problem solving and communication . |
| 20 | Rocks stained a particular colour , sudden changes in vegetation , material thrown up by borrowing animals — all these could provide evidence of a mineral deposit . |
| 21 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 22 | If , in the future , he could provide Rose with a bathroom she would n't be troubled by such inhibitions . |
| 23 | This meant either working out very accurate tables of the movements of the moon or devising a chronometer which could keep time for a voyage of months or years without relying on a pendulum that would be disturbed by the rolling of the ship . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're as much use as the bishop who could fart Lilliburlero through a keyhole , ’ John said in disgust . |
| 25 | This is the fact that it is based on what has appeared to be a uniquely simple fuel , and one whose exploitation could avoid dependence on a variety of other uncertain choices . |
| 26 | Gedge conceded the point in a humorous letter to Dave Fielding , admitted that he could lay claim to a proportion of the royalties accrued by the song . |
| 27 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 28 | This latter idea could lay claim to a basis in ideas of collegiality — but only of a limited nature . |
| 29 | At worst , it could force ERM into a raft of destabilising realignments . |
| 30 | There was great interest in the observation that over-expression of wildtype p53 could induce apoptosis in a range of cultured cell systems . |