Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The growth of , usually , a flower is recorded in single frames spaced out over hours or days ; schools could even conduct this type of experiment with suitable 16mm or 8mm equipment .
2 Central party funds could not pay more than a tiny proportion of the total cost of running a local association in every constituency ; not paying the piper they were unable to call the tune .
3 Western Samoa dominated the second-half when the Scots could only add another Townsend penalty .
4 Their readers could not get enough of Diana ; her face was on every magazine cover , every aspect of her life attracted comment and anyone who had ever known her was tracked down to be interviewed by the voracious media .
5 Only the enemy and both of their readers could possibly consider such a question .
6 Though they 're common enough in Britain , they 're regarded as very exotic in the Ukraine and the visitors could n't get enough of them !
7 The American audiences were kind of small at first and it was a major promotional coup to have survived it all because a lot of dates were pulled at the last minute — promoters could n't get any interest .
8 Outer areas could also get more pedestrian schemes .
9 I suppose TV companies could potentially show both matches if they were on different nights , but if they do n't matter who 's gon na watch two nights of essentially meaningless football ? ( this of course is only true of the last couple of rounds of qualification ) .
10 She could not imagine how Apanage 's flimsy nets could ever contain such a monster .
11 But Labour Parliamentary hopeful Alan Milburn said the NHS had to be improved and the Conservatives could never deliver that .
12 Secondly , a company 's articles could not require more than a 50% majority for the appointment or removal of directors , nor confer on holders of a particular class of shares an exclusive right to nominate directors .
13 This was roundly rejected by the Cork Committee who considered that the wrong done to individual creditors could well outweigh any prejudice to the community in depriving the Crown of its preference .
14 The authorities could not allow this to develop further .
15 But the planning authorities could not resist all new development .
16 Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do .
17 I washed , dressed , strapped on my sword belt and strutted out , quietly vowing that a group of cut-throats and alley-sneakers could not frighten this new Merchant Prince .
18 My father and his brother , who had both passed such exams could not do this , as there was no grant for clothing , books , etc .
19 Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents .
20 Even firmly traditionalist states could not resist this .
21 Member states could however veto any proposal which they thought was detrimental to their economies , therefore very little progress to harmonise to common European standards took place .
22 The smaller galleries could not accommodate these large wheels , and within the house floor space was not always available .
23 A free park and ride scheme had been organised , which was very good in theory , but so many people were parking and riding that the many coaches could barely pass each other on the narrow roads thronged with thousands of people .
24 The polishers , and several other groups could also reach that level of pay .
25 For example , party A could win two marginal seats by the barest of margins while party B won one seat with an overwhelming majority ; the aggregate vote for party B in the three seats could well exceed that of party A , but party A has won twice as many seats .
26 Benjamin Titford 's material and social success during a lifetime spanning 65 years could not match that of William the Undertaker , but he had done very well for himself , for all that .
27 After the talks , Hanan Ashrawi , the Palestinian spokeswoman , said there had been discussion of undisclosed new proposals , but the Palestinians could not make any final decisions without further consultations among themselves and with the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tunis .
28 A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work .
29 She even hid the toilet paper so that guests could not use any .
30 As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition .
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