Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Spengler , this historical progression was a deterministic feature of all cultures , although heroic actions of individuals and peoples could delay the inevitable sequence of the next phase of development . |
| 2 | Last year , a Corrective Action Team was set up in Chlor-Chemicals to find ways in which the existing stock of drums and cylinders could support a required 25% increase in chlorine business while avoiding major capital expenditure on new packaging . |
| 3 | Promises to establish Muslim schools could land a future Labour government with a problem as potentially explosive and insoluble as the Irish question , Neil Fletcher , Labour leader of the Inner London Education Authority , said yesterday at a conference fringe meeting . |
| 4 | ( First Edition ) PROMISES to establish Muslim schools could land a future Labour government with a problem as potentially explosive and insoluble as the Irish question , Neil Fletcher , Labour leader of the Inner London Education Authority , said yesterday . |
| 5 | Cluster groups of schools could conduct a joint review , sharing their experiences . |
| 6 | The development into ‘ girl-friendly science ’ or indeed ‘ girl-friendly schooling ’ in general , has engendered wide-ranging analyses of the way curricula are constructed , and of how schools could play a transformative rather than a reproductive role in gender identities for both sexes ( see for instance Kelly 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Bach also found that certain homoeopathic remedies could change the bacterial flora of patients although no conventional drugs or dietary regimes had produced any significant change . |
| 8 | Ireland considered that in view of the involvement of the vessels of the applicants in the main proceedings in the quota hopping exercise , on the one hand , and of the measures taken by the United Kingdom going back to 1983 , on the other , the owners of those vessels could have no legitimate expectation with regard to the continuation of their activities . |
| 9 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 10 | Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain : local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests — the police , the business community , voluntary groups , and so on , into a coherent administrative whole . |
| 11 | Parcels delivery is another area where pen computers could make a big impact . |
| 12 | For any particular trade a period of bad times could change things , and secondly , some trades could experience a permanent decline , leaving members with only a fading memory of better times . |
| 13 | The strongest selling point for AEs at DPR or LHW was the " limited liability " concept , which meant clients could lose no more money than they put in . |
| 14 | Reliance is currently placed on a network of monitoring stations , often sparsely located and frequently outside fog-prone areas ; GIS could implement a predictive model based on digitized map features and indeed the model could also be used in site allocation studies for airports and the like . |
| 15 | Such characteristics could have a corrosive and debilitating effect on the entire staff of a school to the obvious detriment of children as well as teachers . |
| 16 | The brook was swollen and Hazel 's ears could distinguish the deeper , smoother sound , changed since the day before . |
| 17 | This inner part does not go below fiddle G , so that the violins could lend the powerful aid of their G strings to it ( coupled with other instruments of course ) were it not for the fact that their presence is urgently required to help out the top line . |
| 18 | However , DHAs could suffer the secondary effects of such selection if GP budget-holders choose to select only the lower risks leaving the DHA with the higher-cost patients within any category . |
| 19 | If Western nations could produce the philosophical Superman of Nietzsche , why not Asian nations too ? |
| 20 | Now that Europe and Japan have caught the economic disease from which America is beginning to recover , the same considerations could put a big dent in IBM 's large systems business . |
| 21 | Not many cab drivers could say the same . ’ |
| 22 | Cars would slow down so that their drivers could have a better look . |
| 23 | The jaw movements of some dinosaurs could have a grinding motion like mammals , but most of the mobility came from the upper jaw as it virtually expanded over the lower one . |
| 24 | These alternative phoneme labels could support a large number of word hypotheses , depending on the number and phonetic closeness of items in the lexicon , and these in turn could be combined into a number of different word strings , depending on the constraints of the grammar . |
| 25 | The APU would not have been accused of exerting a conservative influence with its cross-curricular model ; however , the eventual selection of subjects could have a narrowing effect on the curriculum . |
| 26 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 27 | Sure enough , her eyes could see the faint satiny gleam of his bronze skin . |
| 28 | Thus , with the kids occupied , the local Mums and Dads could enjoy the local brew in the shade of the old tree and listen to the singer . |
| 29 | Against the powerful opposition of many in the Nazi hierarchy Vlasov 's German supporters could do no more than secure permission to use the general for propaganda purposes . |
| 30 | Seed packets could carry a simple warning and the familiar skull-and-crossbones motif . |