Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [art] [noun sg] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Kelpies ’ , children 's paperbacks featuring many Scottish authors , are published by Canongate Press , whose managing director , Stephanie Wolfe Murray believes these books to be particularly ‘ price-sensitive ’ and doubts if the list could continue to grow were VAT to raise the price . |
| 2 | Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up . |
| 3 | He said that they were a result of a positive and concerted effort by all managers and subcontractors to identify and control risks before an accident could occur . |
| 4 | It was expected to be months before a government could be formed . |
| 5 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 6 | Indeed research from the National Child Development Study clearly identifies public matters where the state could intervene to prevent harm to children : In the 1970s there was concern about the ‘ cycle of deprivation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) and the war against poverty ( Jordan , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | If one reads the citizens charter , one realises that it will spawn more charters than the hydra could grow heads . |
| 8 | Perhaps it would be useful in such cases if the court could , instead of refusing relief completely , grant some sort of declaration which would not impugn the decision affecting the applicant but would state a rule or principle which would apply to future cases . |
| 9 | They had to take their places on a enormous swing ; once seated it was lowered from the flies until the audience could only see their legs as they went through their act . |
| 10 | Attempts to cheat the system , however , by discharging a patient briefly every three months could be thwarted by insisting that the period of discharge must last at least two weeks before the admission could be considered separate . |
| 11 | By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown . |
| 12 | On a less tragic but equally terrifying note , a family fled from their Worcester home in February 1986 to stay with relatives until the council could find them another house . |
| 13 | On Dec. 28 the Russian Constitutional Court demanded the suspension of the decree forming the new Russian Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs until the court could rule on its constitutionality . |
| 14 | Was the accused treating the goods as his own to dispose of regardless of the owner 's rights because the owner could get the machinery back only by giving in to the demands ? |
| 15 | Aylesbury community health council questions whether the money could not have been better spent . |
| 16 | British Aerospace said its advisers would have to take a detailed look at Ferranti 's books to satisfy themselves that there were no further problems before the company could proceed . |
| 17 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 18 | In this climate , Cripps decided to mount a ‘ popular front ’ campaign in 1937 and 1938 , in order to encourage Labour to enter a coalition government with anti-fascist and anti-appeasement Conservatives and Liberals if a split could be engineered within the Conservative Party . |
| 19 | Thus , concentrations of zinc and copper may not correlate with concentrations of protons because the pH could have two opposing effects — it could facilitate the transfer of zinc and copper into gastric juice at a high pH but then only release them from mucus at low pH . |
| 20 | Mrs Rene Morris said she had been shown letters addressed to parents which said the form had to be given to head teachers before a decision could be made . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player . |
| 22 | Although Kitchener 's recruitment campaign was bringing in more men than the Army could properly train and equip ( by January 1916 two and a half million men had enlisted ) , public pressure was mounting for conscription . |
| 23 | He also announced the possibility of further large cuts if an agreement could be reached with the Commonwealth of Independent States [ see also pp. 38744-45 ] . |
| 24 | The reason for this is one of priorities ; if the receiver were obliged to fulfil existing contracts it would mean that the unsecured creditors would be in a position to require fulfilment of their contracts before the receiver could realise the security . |
| 25 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 26 | Arran announced that he would prefer a Bill of this nature to be introduced in the Commons , but that he would keep his Bill going in the Lords until an MP could be found to sponsor an equivalent measure in the other House . |
| 27 | Westcott once employed a thousand people , now there are only a hundred and fifty , and today it was announced that they too would lose their jobs unless the factory could find substantial new orders . |
| 28 | There was controversy in the second-century churches whether a Christian could be a magistrate or bear public authority , activities which might require apparently compromising with idolatry or condemning criminals to execution . |
| 29 | Until recently , the sea crossing — in a flat-bottomed former Rhine riverboat , called the Pirata Azul — could cause concern to those who were not good sailors as the channel could be very rough indeed . |