Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were it not for the tides , it is hard to see how salt marsh could exist at all . |
| 2 | If there was a second ballot , new candidates could stand at that stage . |
| 3 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |
| 4 | Maggie could kill at sixty paces with one look . |
| 5 | That these tensions could arise at all was due to the fact that historically , Parliaments were originally called as a matter of discretion by the monarch . |
| 6 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 7 | This indicates that suitable depositional and tectonic environments for Irish-style mineralisation could occur at reasonable depths . |
| 8 | An election could come at any time , and policies across the board were being honed in readiness . |
| 9 | think what I 'd like , but I could n't prove anything and erm , so there was nothing that the ombudsman could do at that stage , at , as the stage complete |
| 10 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |
| 11 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 12 | Consequently , without having to decide whether the right of registration is a retained power or whether the Community could legislate at any time in that field , it must be held that in exercising that competence the member states must comply with the general rules of the E.E.C . |
| 13 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 14 | The essence of presidential power was its unpredictability : the General could intervene at any moment and on any issue . |
| 15 | Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time . |
| 16 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 17 | The pipeline from Petrobras passes beneath the houses ; an explosion could occur at any time . |
| 18 | Intuitively , one would guess that abnormalities could arise at many points in such a system and we will now consider severe clinical disorders which bear this out . |
| 19 | It was estimated that no fewer than 30,000 people could congregate at Grand Central without serious crowding . |
| 20 | Although Hertfordshire distinguished between tutor-librarians ( whose job was primarily educational ) and " college librarians " , whose job was supposed to be entirely administrative , many felt that such distinctions were meaningless or misleading ; it was all a matter of proportion , and nobody ( it was argued ) working in a college library could avoid at some stage taking part in the educational process . |
| 21 | Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it . |
| 22 | The student could leave at any time he wished and take up unqualified practice , usually permanently , but sometimes temporarily . |
| 23 | There was to be an additional consultation with the two judges which would take place after the prisoner had served three years of his sentence , so that the Secretary of State could receive at that stage their advice on the total period which should be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 24 | Analysts said last night that oil prices could stabilise at present levels of around $18 a barrel if OPEC could prevent ‘ leakage ’ which would cause total cartel supply to rise above 24 million bpd until the end of June . |
| 25 | There is no tidal limitation and a lifeboat could respond at any time day or night . |
| 26 | Marcelle thought them dreadful , but Marcelle was French , and even if she was attired soberly , she would still think no-one outside France could dress at all . |
| 27 | If one also supposed that only one or two electrons could orbit at any one of these distances , this would solve the problem of the collapse of the atom , because the electrons could not spiral in any farther than to fill up the orbits with the least distances and energies . |
| 28 | ‘ There are twenty thousand people over there and this thing could fire at any moment . ’ |
| 29 | The police could arrive at any minute ! |
| 30 | The 33-year-old former England star admitted : ‘ My knee could go at any moment . |