Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidance , while encouraging social workers to share information with clients about their needs , warns them against recording this on the assessment form because clients could go to court over any assessed needs which are not being met with services . |
| 2 | Working-class girls were probably less socially protected than they had been in pre-industrial communities , and a variety of influences could come into play , including the temptation of the streets . |
| 3 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 4 | Since the Emperor wished to retain ultimate control of foreign policy in his own hands , he was able to meet other European sovereigns in a suitable setting in which both parties could feel at ease . |
| 5 | At about this time there also emerged the Islamic Revolutionary Party ( IRP ) , to provide a banner under which approved candidates could run for election to the Majles , and the Revolutionary Guards or Pasdaran-e-Enqelab-e-Eslami . |
| 6 | On the basis of calculations about what local and national inspectors could manage by way of inspections , Becher et al ( 1979 ) go further and conclude that , ‘ It therefore becomes hard to see inspection becoming a routine form of accountability without at least doubling the number of inspectors ’ . |
| 7 | And multiple databases could act in parallel . |
| 8 | Accompanying the maintenance of old standards , even though social conditions were changing , often dramatically , was the survival amongst many sections of the working class ( especially the rural ) of the tradition that sexual relationships could begin at betrothal to a steady boyfriend and the corollary was that a pregnant woman would be married by the father , though as we shall see , social transformations were to weaken this . |
| 9 | Real life , North 's listeners could learn by inference , was the hour of crisis or the field of battle . |
| 10 | So the goals could come from Brain . |
| 11 | The church also set up a number of permanent rural communities where members of the Christian communities could go for weekend retreats or live there full-time . |
| 12 | Freud thought it was difficult to see how communism could be generalized to the whole world , unless national rivalries could cope with aggression without full-scale wars . |
| 13 | More importantly , the pair 's insolvency licences could come under review , since any case coming before the Disciplinary Committee involving insolvency practitioners is automatically referred to the Insolvency Licensing Committee , which has the power to withdraw licences . |
| 14 | It is now uncommon , and ill-advised , for the seller to agree to warranties being repeated at completion , since matters could happen between contract and completion completely outside its control ( indeed despite its best efforts ) which would result in a breach of warranty at completion and hence a potential damages claim from the acquirer . |
| 15 | In the twentieth century a combination of economic change and government regulations reduced the profitability of cattle stealing , and when the crime revived in the 1930s there was little the authorities could do in face of nationalist feeling and the economic pressures of the depression . |
| 16 | At the same time , and as we saw in section 5.1 , the regulations increased the range and number of bills which institutions could offer for discount at the Bank by recognising as ‘ eligible ’ bills commercial bills accepted by certain leading banks . |
| 17 | The chairman of the environmental committee , Ken Collins , described the Commission as " uninspiring , uninteresting and unconvincing " , and warned that " the cost of not integrating environmental policy " into Community activities could result in pollution on the scale suffered by Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | An estimated $84,000,000 in further US aid was also delayed due to protracted negotiations with the US government on a " legal assistance accord " to lift Panama 's strict banking secrecy regulations so that investigations could proceed into drug trafficking and " money laundering " . |
| 19 | Held , ( 1 ) that under Community law member states could determine in accordance with the general rules of public international law the conditions under which vessels could be entered in national registers and granted the right to fly their flags , but that in laying down those conditions the member states had to comply with Community law ( post , pp. 338F–G , 343A ) . |
| 20 | This would mean that the courts could take into account , as in other contexts where the expression is encountered , the purposes for which the notification is required . |
| 21 | Many farms had more family workers than could be fully employed , and so migration to the cities could occur without loss of food output . |
| 22 | Peter Strong , 47 , an Oxford University lecturer , said : ‘ I was shocked that people from one of the top universities could act like soccer thugs . ’ |
| 23 | Between 200 and 300 new commercial stations could come on air in the 1990s and intense competition for advertising revenue is inevitable . |
| 24 | If the all-provident mother of the hunter-gatherer societies had been lost with the coming of agriculture and weaning so that a divine substitute had had to be found in heaven in the shape of the mother-goddess , then eventually a real , human substitute had been found on earth in the person of the all-powerful emperor or king whose granaries could supply in reality what the opulent breasts of the divine mother promised in phantasy — namely , reassurance against oral anxiety and the fear of hunger . |
| 25 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 26 | Furthermore social surveys had shown that early marriage , by unskilled workers could lead to poverty and destitution . |
| 27 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 28 | Possibly not so much the cost , what other factors in the list of , of determinants could come into play now ? |
| 29 | If the allied powers could agree on procedure , then the United States should be prepared to advance with negotiations . |
| 30 | In a move to freeze about two-thirds of all the money in circulation , short-term seven-day banking deposits worth about $2,000 million were frozen on Jan. 1 , and the amount which investors could withdraw in cash was limited to 1,000,000 australs , the option being to accept repayment of savings in 10-year dollar bonds . |