Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What harm could it do ? |
| 2 | What harm could it do ? ’ |
| 3 | What harm could it do to play this little game another few minutes ? |
| 4 | And what sort of future could I look forward to ? |
| 5 | But , from now on , their religion could itself become a source of prestige , and did so , to the dismay of bishops who , like Eusebius himself , were sometimes inclined to look for less worldly motives for conversion to Christianity . |
| 6 | Only when she was on the other side of the car could she gain a clear view of Maurice and only then by closing to within a few yards . |
| 7 | For what reply could we give if asked to explain the meaning of " fact " ? |
| 8 | What good could it do ? ’ |
| 9 | So if Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president of the United States , what action could we expect him to take to stimulate America 's ailing economy ? |
| 10 | But what sort of work could they do ? |
| 11 | And how often how much work could you get on a farm then ? |
| 12 | Let's face it , not even with Springsteen 's help could I munch through that alone . |
| 13 | And what real help could anyone give her ? |
| 14 | can I suggest and I du n no , it might not work we have a lot of children who find it difficult to wo to work at home could we hold a detention in the resource centre for the hour so if other children want to use it , I do n't know , is it open after school ? |
| 15 | Basically what I wanted to do , was to write a love story with the question could one honour the expression of the beloved , the language of the other , in the same way one could honour the expression of one 's own . |
| 16 | To the question could we see her Daddy , she replied ‘ I am afraid Daddy is not home yet , Mummy is here , but I think you should see Nanny , she is looking after us . |
| 17 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 18 | And it is not easy to discover any more covert or sophisticated moral view of the characters and the events of the poem : it does not dwell in any suggestive way on the irremediable carnality of human desires , and only with a degree of distortion and uncalled for determination could we assert that the poem is significantly antifeminist or anticlerical . |
| 19 | On the matter of hedge cutting debris could I ask you please to ensure that your contractor removes the hedge clippings and does not leave them where they will cause a hazard to cyclists . |
| 20 | Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom . |
| 21 | We have already seen that if the defect was due to the negligence of the manufacturer , the boy could himself have sued the manufacturer direct for negligence . |
| 22 | Only if I were a boy could I ask girls out on dates ; only if I were a boy could I have sexual contact with girls . |
| 23 | Only if I were a boy could I ask girls out on dates ; only if I were a boy could I have sexual contact with girls . |
| 24 | And i oh boy could he mend them . |
| 25 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 26 | What provision could you make if the child suddenly becomes ill ? |
| 27 | What provision could he make for his family during his absence ? |
| 28 | HOW much money could you invest in a business venture ? |
| 29 | AND what possible support/excuse could he give ? |
| 30 | What excuse could you give ? ’ |