Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIRMIC fears that selective premium rates for vulnerable areas could mean that even fewer companies would buy cover from Pool Re . |
| 2 | A proposal put to the PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat suggested that the dialogue could resume as soon as the PLO had disciplined the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) for its involvement in the May 30 seaborne attack on the Israeli coast [ see pp. 37443-44 ] . |
| 3 | Except that there was no way Third World countries could develop that fast : there was room for no more than a handful of South Koreas or Singapores , ready to beat the West at its own game . |
| 4 | The second principle : ‘ the system for quality is prevention ’ involves considering where errors could occur and then taking action to prevent them . |
| 5 | I also wondered how a high-born lady could disappear and no one raise the hue and cry . ’ |
| 6 | Within these coastal poleniers an enormous amount of sea ice could form and then is removed to the north dumping enormous amounts of salt into the shelf water making it very dense and setting up the stage for the deep sinking associated with Antarctic . |
| 7 | Here Cornelius fed the motor car with the best petrol that money could buy and then took himself up to the restaurant to join Tuppe . |
| 8 | And mum could come as well . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the thrust for privatization somewhat lost its appeal as the public came to realize that share values could fall as well as rise . |
| 10 | Otherwise , be patient , the market is not going to get better in a hurry , though buoyant exports and frantic adjustments by manufacturers to sales strategies could mean that today 's bargains will not last forever . |
| 11 | The archbishop could delay and immensely complicate matters , but his appeal to Rome in August 1297 had been barred , his excommunication of violators was countered by a writ of prohibition , his resolution was isolated by the alarmist fears of some clergy and the divided loyalties of others , especially those who were the king 's servants ; above all , Boniface VIII 's temporizing in France suggested that no archbishop henceforth could rely on papal support . |
| 12 | Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed . |
| 13 | We agree heartily with those that assert that IBM 's mid-range groups could embarrass and even hurt the company 's mainframe division by fielding impressively more clever and vastly more efficient computers . |
| 14 | Boards could maim as well as protect : they had to be muzzled with noseguards . |
| 15 | However , since adoption of the proposals was voluntary and existing organisations could continue as before , ‘ there could be no objection in principle to them ’ . |
| 16 | Now Mill concedes that the guardian , the despots might manage the affairs of the state tolerably well that there 's no reason of principle why a very enlightened despot could n't do fairly well , although Mill claims that no despot could do as well as a good democracy . |
| 17 | There was little the Phoenix King could do but finally declare war against one of his own realms . |
| 18 | BR could claim that even before the Monopoly Commission report 's comments on the need for a new rolling-stock policy it was moving towards the development of stock for use on all regions , having introduced Class 313 25kV AC/750V DC ( dual voltage ) inner-suburban stock in 1976 for the Great Northern electrification scheme followed in 1978 by Class 507 750V DC third-rail stock for Merseyrail ( Midland Region ) ; and Class 314 25kV AC stock in Scotland . |
| 19 | It was to prevent bad development and to show that you could build decent houses with gardens at rents people could afford and also that you could develop a community , which is why he was never in favour of a company town . |
| 20 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 21 | The Netherlands plan had also envisaged that full EMU could start when only six of the 12 states were economically and politically ready ( rather than seven or eight as proposed by others ) . |
| 22 | Then our secret life could continue as before , with only the small wild things knowing of our existence . |
| 23 | Only one so far — or this was the first he had heard of , but the affair could snowball and sometimes this kind of thing took an unforeseen twist . |
| 24 | Er , we by our own views and our own concern could stop that almost over night , there 's a lot we can do ! |
| 25 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 26 | The content of the new journalism was appalling but at least it indicated that the masses could read and apart from being useful that offered the prospect that readers might move on to better things . |
| 27 | that i when the child comes to you to si , you sign to show they 're with you now , perhaps Cath could amend that so that you have it you 've actually got the week but five slots for homework |
| 28 | His mam was dying of some rare disease which no doctor could cure and always , but always , proved fatal . |
| 29 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 30 | In the monetarist world , a positively sloped short-run Phillips curve existed because mistakes over real wages could arise and therefore temporary deviations from equilibrium existed . |