Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] at any " in BNC.
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| 1 | An election could come at any time , and policies across the board were being honed in readiness . |
| 2 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The essence of presidential power was its unpredictability : the General could intervene at any moment and on any issue . |
| 6 | Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time . |
| 7 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 8 | The pipeline from Petrobras passes beneath the houses ; an explosion could occur at any time . |
| 9 | The student could leave at any time he wished and take up unqualified practice , usually permanently , but sometimes temporarily . |
| 10 | There is no tidal limitation and a lifeboat could respond at any time day or night . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ There are twenty thousand people over there and this thing could fire at any moment . ’ |
| 13 | The police could arrive at any minute ! |
| 14 | The 33-year-old former England star admitted : ‘ My knee could go at any moment . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |