Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dragged on a cigarette and wrote , as if words could change a thing . |
| 2 | Describing Mr Edwards as ‘ a good man , a devoted husband , a caring father and a considerate neighbour ’ Mgr Bartley said that no words could decry the depths to which his killers descended . |
| 3 | For Spengler , this historical progression was a deterministic feature of all cultures , although heroic actions of individuals and peoples could delay the inevitable sequence of the next phase of development . |
| 4 | Without it , continued recession and job losses could threaten the whole of Europe , Mr Major said . |
| 5 | Albion fresh from promotion are always good at home with a big crowd cheering them on and their fans could have a lot to shout about … |
| 6 | ANGRY cricket fans could win a £350,000 pay-out after last summer 's rain fiasco in the Edgbaston Test against Pakistan … if they act quickly . |
| 7 | Last year , a Corrective Action Team was set up in Chlor-Chemicals to find ways in which the existing stock of drums and cylinders could support a required 25% increase in chlorine business while avoiding major capital expenditure on new packaging . |
| 8 | Furthermore , intelligent sensors could provide the means to move from passive CM to active intelligent process control whereby some actions could be initiated automatically by the export system ie re-configurable avionic systems and automated adjustments . |
| 9 | Promises to establish Muslim schools could land a future Labour government with a problem as potentially explosive and insoluble as the Irish question , Neil Fletcher , Labour leader of the Inner London Education Authority , said yesterday at a conference fringe meeting . |
| 10 | ( First Edition ) PROMISES to establish Muslim schools could land a future Labour government with a problem as potentially explosive and insoluble as the Irish question , Neil Fletcher , Labour leader of the Inner London Education Authority , said yesterday . |
| 11 | Despite reservations held in many quarters about the GMS policy , an increase in the number of grant maintained schools could benefit the book trade . |
| 12 | Cluster groups of schools could conduct a joint review , sharing their experiences . |
| 13 | The development into ‘ girl-friendly science ’ or indeed ‘ girl-friendly schooling ’ in general , has engendered wide-ranging analyses of the way curricula are constructed , and of how schools could play a transformative rather than a reproductive role in gender identities for both sexes ( see for instance Kelly 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Bach also found that certain homoeopathic remedies could change the bacterial flora of patients although no conventional drugs or dietary regimes had produced any significant change . |
| 15 | Youngster , Mark Druce is been in cracking form in the reserves could get a chance . |
| 16 | Ireland considered that in view of the involvement of the vessels of the applicants in the main proceedings in the quota hopping exercise , on the one hand , and of the measures taken by the United Kingdom going back to 1983 , on the other , the owners of those vessels could have no legitimate expectation with regard to the continuation of their activities . |
| 17 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 18 | If he genuinely felt her designs could form the basis for a new range to lift the company 's fortunes ? |
| 19 | The units could have a counter top and there would need to be efficient lighting . |
| 20 | Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain : local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests — the police , the business community , voluntary groups , and so on , into a coherent administrative whole . |
| 21 | On the plus side , Welsh flockmasters could exploit the ending of clawback and their proven expertise and natural climatic advantages to supply Continental customers . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that bonfires , which not only cause objectionable odours and smoke , but also release polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons into the atmosphere which in sufficient concentrations could constitute a health hazard , ought not to be permitted between certain set hours . |
| 23 | Swimming club coach Terry White , 38 , said : ‘ There was no way the kids could avoid the gas . ’ |
| 24 | This aspect of Sanskrit is an attraction , however , for enthusiasts like Vyaas Houston , a teacher of Sanskrit in the United States for 18 years , who says the precision play of Sanskrit with computers could awaken the capacity in human beings to utilise their innate higher mental faculty with a momentum for transformation . |
| 25 | Parcels delivery is another area where pen computers could make a big impact . |
| 26 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |
| 27 | For any particular trade a period of bad times could change things , and secondly , some trades could experience a permanent decline , leaving members with only a fading memory of better times . |
| 28 | If those knees could tell a story it would probably be an angry diatribe against the paparazzi . |
| 29 | The strongest selling point for AEs at DPR or LHW was the " limited liability " concept , which meant clients could lose no more money than they put in . |
| 30 | Reliance is currently placed on a network of monitoring stations , often sparsely located and frequently outside fog-prone areas ; GIS could implement a predictive model based on digitized map features and indeed the model could also be used in site allocation studies for airports and the like . |