Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] at [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | An election could come at any time , and policies across the board were being honed in readiness . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The essence of presidential power was its unpredictability : the General could intervene at any moment and on any issue . |
| 11 | Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time . |
| 12 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 13 | The pipeline from Petrobras passes beneath the houses ; an explosion could occur at any time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The student could leave at any time he wished and take up unqualified practice , usually permanently , but sometimes temporarily . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is no tidal limitation and a lifeboat could respond at any time day or night . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ There are twenty thousand people over there and this thing could fire at any moment . ’ |
| 23 | The police could arrive at any minute ! |
| 24 | The 33-year-old former England star admitted : ‘ My knee could go at any moment . |
| 25 | The Sun claims that the Stonebridge council estate in north London ‘ is Britain 's tinderbox where Los Angeles-style riots could explode at any time ’ . |
| 26 | None of these four and five-year-olds could read at that stage . |
| 27 | She wrote eighteen more novels , none of them distinguished or now read , enabling her to live alone in relative comfort for sixty years and to give her only son the best upper-class education that her country could provide at that time . |
| 28 | Regulation of transmitter release could occur at any of the sequence of events leading from Ca 2+ entry to exocytosis , through the mobilization , docking and fusion of vesicles at release sites in the presynaptic terminal . |
| 29 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 30 | It clearly was n't something that the patrol section could do at that time . |