Example sentences of "could [vb infin] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 2 | He said then he , we could carry on with the serious stuff ! |
| 3 | Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control . |
| 4 | Basic Stable Management , is designed as an introductory course and students could follow on to the Senior Horsemaster Course 1 and then onto the Senior Horsemasters Course 2 which is an equivalent level of study to the BHS Stage IV . |
| 5 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 6 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 7 | She could go on to the other station but she says I enjoy being in so much I use it . |
| 8 | On gaining this award , he or she could go on to the National Certificate ( level I ) . |
| 9 | From the drawing or painting of a real aquarium one could go on to an imagined aquarium and allow the children to invent fishes of their own design and colour , and other water creatures , shells , etc . |
| 10 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 11 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 12 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 13 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 14 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 15 | Leith snapped angrily — and realised she could go on in the same vein until she was blue in the face and it still would n't dent him . |
| 16 | ‘ If we could get a decent job , have somewhere settled to live , then we could get on with a proper life . |
| 17 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |