Example sentences of "[conj] could [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopes and expectations were high ; Britain was desperate for a car that could compete at the top level with Alfa Romeo and Ferrari , and BRM , with the backing of British industry , was the car to do it . |
| 2 | Equally a yacht which is cruising and has more power-consuming electronic equipment , such as a refrigerator , which might use 200 amps during a week , would require a much larger generator , one that could recharge at 28.6 amps per day ( 1.2 amp/hr ) . |
| 3 | Another Desert Storm , even another Somalia — where the United Nations appeals for someone to help , and America steps up with the will and manpower to do so — might give Mr Clinton an aura of leadership that could help at home . |
| 4 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 5 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 6 | In libel trials the threat is of bankruptcy , rather than prison : the action brought by Lord Aldington against Nigel Watts and Count Nikolai Tolstoy is expected to last around three months , and could ruin at least one side . |
| 7 | Clients could therefore join the study after its onset and could move at whichever point in time their new services were ready . |
| 8 | It was a move from a concern with the intrinsic character of the student 's experience to an interest in what the student knew and could do at the end of the course . |
| 9 | These stock yards covered 500 acres and could accommodate at any one time 75,000 cattle , I25,000 sheep , 300,000 hogs , and 6,000 horses . |
| 10 | If the IVA proposal is accepted , the arrangement binds all creditors who had notice of and could vote at the meeting , whether or not they were present or represented . |
| 11 | Allosaurus was about 11 metres long and could walk at 5 mph ( 8 kph ) , double the speed of the giant herbivores , who could retreat into deep water . |
| 12 | He was only a voluntary patient , he supposed , and could leave at any time . |
| 13 | The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake . |
| 14 | But the £1.7 million winger has made an express recovery from a hernia operation and could return at the City Ground . |
| 15 | Tom seemed very casual now , as if he had recently found the answer to some burdensome question and could relax at last , and he teased both Belinda and Mrs Porter mercilessly about the Christmas presents they had given and received . |
| 16 | Has slipped down the weights and could surprise at long odds here . |
| 17 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
| 18 | The coelurosaurs , he said , normally walked at 5 mph but could run at up to 8 mph . |