Example sentences of "could [vb infin] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're buying your first home and your mortgage is £40,000* or above you could qualify for the following benefit : — . |
| 2 | Reform has already begun : this weekend voters could choose for the first time a single named candidate for the lower house , instead of numbers on a party list . |
| 3 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 4 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 5 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 6 | Philip Heslop QC , counsel for club chairman Alan Sugar , said January , 1994 , was the earliest date he could see for the full hearing of the dispute between Mr Sugar and Spurs ' chief executive Terry Venables . |
| 7 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , you could try for the Long Range Weather Forecasting Agency ( bring your own piece of seaweed ) or the World Bank in Washington , but the growth industries of tax-free living must be in Europe . |
| 9 | Dennis Sciama , of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Trieste , teased out the consequences the neutrinos could have for the dark-matter debate in a journal , Nature , a week before the conference . |
| 10 | He either could go for the vital boundary himself , or back his and his partner 's ability to hold fast for the remaining three overs and also gather the runs as insurance . |
| 11 | Celtic , on 21 March , 1992 , were the last side to beat Rangers at Ibrox and that is a record which , domestically at any rate , could stand for the foreseeable future unless visiting clubs are willing to alter their attitude to them . |
| 12 | what I told Emmy though that that the other people advertising , they 're dealing in the wedding dresses , so one enquiry could pay for the whole lot , for her she 's dealing in nothing . |
| 13 | If I liked it , I could re-apply for the one-year programme , and if I did n't , I would only have wasted five months . |
| 14 | It was as green a light as you could get for the never-ending demands for U-turns from Mr Gould , followed by several Shadow Cabinet colleagues . |
| 15 | Although centres generally have more control over what learning and assessment opportunities are offered , it may be preferable for some learning outcomes to be assessed in the workplace , if this opportunity exists ; eg. if a YT trainee carries out reception duties in the workplace it would be more realistic if the centre could arrange for the relevant module ( or learning outcomes ) to be assessed in the work environment . |
| 16 | I feel certain you will be interested in come of these reports and to aid distribution , and to prevent our troubling you with unwanted copies , I would be grateful if you could arrange for the enclosed card to be completed and returned to us . |
| 17 | It was held that there was a contract of sale of goods and that the sellers could sue for the outstanding balance of the price . |
| 18 | For a massive planet consisting largely of hydrogen and helium there are two main sources of heat for the interior , each of which could account for the excess radiation . |
| 19 | These peripheral pharmacokinetic changes could account for the beneficial motor effects of Ro 40-7592 administered with levodopa . |
| 20 | I talked to members of Wingates Band , who said that there is no set plan — this could account for the apparent chaos — but the idea is to take part in as many of the competitions as possible . |
| 21 | There were no obvious differences between the studies in the way in which they were conducted which could account for the wide range of rates of dream reporting from NREM sleep . |
| 22 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 23 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 24 | It would appear unlikely that a difference of two water molecules could account for the large destabilisation observed and it is therefore probable that minor groove hydration is not the singularly most important destabilising effect the sequence currently under investigation . |