Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely no more appropriately-named horse could win with a General Election only five days away from the race itself . |
| 2 | Richard could play outside a while longer , while Cissie and Beth washed the dishes . |
| 3 | Public and private institutions could , it decided , act in ignorance , and great harm could flow as a consequence , and succession and family law arrangements could potentially be prejudiced . |
| 4 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 5 | This would be aimed mainly at the 12-14 age group although the middle and upper schools could participate to a lesser extent . |
| 6 | Uzbekistan 's President , Islam Karimov , on June 8 decreed a state of emergency in districts in Uzbekistan 's Andizhan oblast bordering Osh oblast , and warned that the Osh violence could escalate into a full-scale inter-republican armed conflict . |
| 7 | By definition the gene must promote the reproductive success of the selfish organisms at a cost to itself but a gene for altruism could evolve in a population of selfish individuals a population of altruists , in whom a gene for selfishness appears by random mutation . |
| 8 | President Bush says the world must look beyond the Gulf crisis to a new deal for the Middle East , and he 's hinting that an Iraqi pull out from Kuwait could lead to an end to the conflict between the Arabs and Israel . |
| 9 | Anyone who heard some of the more extravagant pictures of apprenticeship painted by some of those at the original Edinburgh meeting , must feel slightly uneasy that the Association could turn into a Don Quixote tilting lances at imaginary windmills , pursuing ‘ causes ’ that are not a reality , and being antagonistic for the sake of it . |
| 10 | Three foreign entrants have already withdrawn and a meeting tomorrow of the British Wheelchair Racing Association could call for a boycott by all British competitors . |
| 11 | Nooty could climb like a squirrel . |
| 12 | Hubbell and Foster argue that such thinking could lead to a return to the classical views of rain forest and speciation espoused by Corner , Fedorov and van Steenis . |
| 13 | Many employees and organizations could benefit from a structure that acts as a conduit to help ideas flow more readily through an organization . |
| 14 | Oh , this car could do with a car wash as well could n't it ? |
| 15 | In sum , therefore , an attendance rate of 90% does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent ; the missing 10% could come from a small number of pupils with lengthy absences or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences . |
| 16 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 17 | Baydon Star 's Ascot victim Cadency could do with a stronger gallop than at Huntingdon last time to help him settle , but he can justify the journey from Newmarket for the Scottish Power Handicap Hurdle . |
| 18 | But in the twelfth century , by and large , whoever could enter the ranks of the privileged clergy could hope for a bishopric ; and the ranks of the privileged clergy were open to all who could find patronage , whether because of birth or talent or good luck . |
| 19 | Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , told the conference the Government would not push to legislate while neither shops nor shoppers could agree on a solution , pressure groups could not agree , and Parliament could find no consensus . |
| 20 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 21 | Those who carried their counties or their countries to victory are featured to the exclusion of all else , and the result could serve as a visual aid to motivation . |
| 22 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 23 | How many other aspects of social work practice could benefit from a fundamental reappraisal of guiding philosophies ? |
| 24 | Much of the potential for transferability of good practice could come through a series of innovations which partnership might originate , provided it is prepared to transcend traditional structures . |
| 25 | His bubbling forwardness could collapse in an excess of emotionality . |
| 26 | Where steps are not taken to avoid such holding out , the salaried partner has the same professional responsibilities as a full partner to ensure that his firm complies with the Indemnity Insurance Rules ( under which salaried partners are treated as principals ) and the Accounts Rules ( see Chapter 12 ) ; and in theory the Inland Revenue could look to a salaried partner who is held out as a member of the firm for payment of income tax payable in respect of its profits , though in practice such a claim is unlikely . |
| 27 | Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic . |
| 28 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 29 | Midfielder Willie Falconer could figure in a Boro first-team squad for the first time since September . |
| 30 | But he warned there were potential risks and pitfalls because the new working methods could come as a culture shock . |