Example sentences of "[conj] could [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one in racing is above ringing round for spare rides ; one great jump jockey was nicknamed ‘ Ting-a-Ling ’ because of his speed and skill in contacting trainers whose jockeys were injured or could n't do the weight or were simply out of favour . |
| 2 | We used to send floppy disks to 1,000 sites and there were lots of problems — people lost disks or could n't find the work book . |
| 3 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 4 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 5 | Reflecting on the missed chance that could yet change the whole course of Wexford 's season John O'Connor said : ‘ I did n't feel any pressure . |
| 6 | It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it . |
| 7 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 8 | What is the point of having a bomb that could instantly destroy the city of Glasgow ? |
| 9 | " She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . " |
| 10 | Finally there was the ticket for the left-luggage office at Paddington station , something that could only cross the Atlantic by hand . |
| 11 | That is an issue that could usefully form the basis of a CD compilation . |
| 12 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 13 | Two sets of findings in particular suggest preventive strategies that could considerably reduce the prevalence of acute psychotic episodes . |
| 14 | The US General Accounting Office ( 1979 ) sampled 243 monitoring stations and revealed that 81 per cent had one or more problems that could adversely affect the accuracy and reliability of air quality data . |
| 15 | I licked my lips and could already taste the salt ; my hair was whipped into a cone . |
| 16 | The attacks on Israel — and the war in general — are making a deep impression on Iraq 's neighbours and could yet detach the Arab members of the alliance . |
| 17 | Darwin 's originality lay in the fact that , as a wealthy amateur , he could study in the field as well as in the dissecting room and could thus synthesize the information from biogeography and morphology . |
| 18 | Fundoplication may place a degree of stretch on the smooth muscle of the body of the oesophagus and could thus increase the amplitude of contractions . |
| 19 | The female when on heat was obviously erotically inclined herself , and could soon arouse the male , but , once aroused , the sexual drive of both animals seemed unable to direct them towards the exact behaviour demanded by the situation . |
| 20 | Certainly government influence had a powerful impact , and could normally secure the return of favoured candidates in constituencies where there were significant government installations ( such as the postal service at Harwich , or the dockyards at Plymouth , Portsmouth and the Cinque Ports ) . |
| 21 | The members of the commission could not gain entry to north Korea and could not observe the nature of elections there . |
| 22 | One other man , a Henry W. Harris , a railway official , went to his rescue , and succeeded in reaching the drowning swimmer , but got into difficulties himself and could not bring the other to the shore . |
| 23 | She longed to encounter some other human presence and could not bear the thought of it . |
| 24 | Alice , who had several times caught Tom looking admiringly at her while they were coming up there in the tube , and could not forget the way he had held out his hand to her while they sang the duet , wondered if having the room next to his was a good idea . |
| 25 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 26 | National unity came late and could not conquer the sense of belonging to pre-national societies . |
| 27 | It was obvious he was out of control and could not stop the springs . |
| 28 | The present writer has no experience in microbiology and could not tell the difference between bacilli and cocci if he saw them . |
| 29 | Umpire David Archer , in his 28th Test , was following the flight of the ball and could not give the decision , obvious by instant TV replay to viewers as far away as Johannesburg and London and , more pertinently , to reserve umpire Lloyd Barker and match referee Raman Subba Row in the pavilion . |
| 30 | These three teachers were struggling to survive in an inner-city school and could not give the evaluation project the kind of commitment it really deserved . |