Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [art] [noun sg] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would arise where a defendant could not prove , on the balance of probabilities , that his story was correct , that someone else was responsible for causing personal injury or damage to the vehicle taken or to other vehicles and articles , and that he was not a party to the offence . |
| 2 | Dave happened to take a telephone call from a British Rail official who wanted to know if the Bank could provide a counselling service for workers facing redundancy . |
| 3 | In agriculture , biotechnology may have a major impact on crop yields — the yield from cassava in Africa could be quadrupled if the plant could be made resistant to African cassava mosaic virus . |
| 4 | The house where they were living has been re-possessed because the owner could n't keep up with the mortgage payments . |
| 5 | But if a voidable disposition were registered before being avoided , I would doubt whether the register could be rectified under paragraph ( d ) , even if the disposition were voidable on account of fraud . |
| 6 | The study , carried out by Shetland Health Board and the Environmental Health ( Scotland ) Unit , was set up to establish whether the spill could have long-term health effects . |
| 7 | Well it will , they have n't had a free election except for one they had in rather stressful circumstances a few months ago , since oh , the early er ninteen thirties , and one er wonders whether the population could be going to administer to Mr Kohl the same sort of surprise that the British population administered to Churchill in nineteen forty-five . |
| 8 | In the long run , however , ministers doubted whether the country could meet its present commitments to these organizations in the light of the events of July-August . |
| 9 | Fokin agreed to continue to serve until a replacement could be appointed . |
| 10 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
| 11 | The line was opened in 1896 , but the engine jumped the rails on its maiden run , and modifications had to be made before the service could be resumed . |
| 12 | Abraham was accepted by God in virtue of what Christ would do upon the cross by bearing the curse of the broken law upon his representative shoulders : men living after the cross could be accepted by God as they put their trust in what God had done for them through Jesus . |
| 13 | Coincidentally they received a phone call from a double glazing company to see if a rep could call round . |
| 14 | Madam Speaker there are a number of points in that supplementary question , let me deal first of all with on G C H Q we 've done exactly what the I L O requested us to do , we 've had er discussions with the civil service unions to see if a solution could be found . |
| 15 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 16 | I even practised a few variations at home to see if the system could be improved . |
| 17 | In view of the high cost of subscriptions , D Mann asked C Will if he could prepare a list of current subscriptions , and current exchanges , to see if the Librarian could identify journals which were no longer needed for our work programme . |
| 18 | Thus the reasons put forward for the present rule are first , that it preserves the constitutional proprieties leaving Parliament to legislate in words and the courts ( not Parliamentary speakers ) , to construe the meaning of the words finally enacted ; second , the practical difficulty of the expense of researching Parliamentary material which would arise if the material could be looked at ; third , the need for the citizen to have access to a known defined text which regulates his legal rights ; fourth , the improbability of finding helpful guidance from Hansard . |
| 19 | How the WO calculates future housing need — we asked if a distinction could be made between the quantitative factors and the qualitative assumptions/aspirations , including political objectives . |
| 20 | Trollope reaches the point of wondering whether a plumber could go to heaven , before sweet reason intervenes : ‘ we do not see why he should be debarred if cabinet ministers be allowed to enter . ’ |
| 21 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 22 | Using conventional x-ray films , a bone loss of some 30 per cent would be needed before a clinician could be sure that changes had occurred . |
| 23 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 24 | It was easier to mine in for two reasons : firstly , if you mined the stone , massive amounts of earth did not have to be shifted before the stone could be got at , and secondly , the men of Swaledale and Wensleydale , many of them experienced lead-miners , had all the knowledge and expertise necessary to dig stone from the mine , and furthermore labour was plentiful because of the decline of the lead industry . |
| 25 | Once more Bloomsbury House made a timely intervention , as often happened when the Movement could be persuaded that the offender was basically good at heart . |
| 26 | He also showed that the zeolite used as the exchanger could be regenerated with sodium to replace the calcium taken up during the softening cycle . |
| 27 | SMALL wonder many couples prefer to live together and not marry when a divorce could cost thousands of pounds in lawyers ' fees . |
| 28 | 1.44 Reference was made earlier to cases in which delay arose because a defendant could not be served and the fact that a writ would not necessarily be renewed in these circumstances . |
| 29 | Why did she wonder if the wolf could be tamed ? |
| 30 | It would be appreciated if a reply could be forwarded to this department by Friday 18 December 1992 . |