Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sorceress could see into the future , and she could see how her curse might again fall on us . ’ |
| 2 | While the difference appeared small , the gap represented an assessment of the support each side could command in the transitional body . |
| 3 | Melton Park would have a very easy passage in the Members ' , but may instead go for the Restricted , where his main opposition could come from The Grey Boreen . |
| 4 | The THES added in an editorial that the withdrawal of CNAA recognition could result in the grave consequence of the closure of an institution in the largest conurbation in Europe without a university : |
| 5 | The department could look at the value of making use of the local environment as a resource for its teaching . |
| 6 | The commercial use of our facilities for filming/photography etc. in future could come under the remit of the Business Development Director , in liaison with Public Services . |
| 7 | Axelrod and Hamilton point out that reciprocal altruism could evolve without the need for individual recognition in a sessile organism ; in principle , it could evolve in a plant . |
| 8 | However , detinue was open to the very serious objection from the plaintiff 's point of view that the defendant could insist on the method of trial known as wager of law , i.e . |
| 9 | It amounts to the ‘ best ’ statistical description of the process determining which Barro could find for the period covered by his data . |
| 10 | Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis . |
| 11 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 12 | In the meantime , of course , the Administration could dispose of the general inspector 's office to another party while being sure of the political interest of Deacon Murray , a result which in all probability was anticipated by the astute Milton . |
| 13 | To calculate unc Feynman tells us that we should think of all the different ways in which an old-fashioned electron with classically picturable simultaneous position and momentum could travel from the source through slit 1 and onto the specified point on the second screen . |
| 14 | There is still a possibility the club could resign from the Northern League before Tuesday 's deadline . |
| 15 | He devised an experiment to ascertain whether salivation could occur in the absence of any obvious physical cause . |
| 16 | English fishermen 's leaders gave warning that militant action could result from the failure of the council to aid the catchers . |
| 17 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |
| 18 | AID could pay for the road through its Economic Support Fund . |
| 19 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 20 | Prior to COGSA unseaworthiness was determinative of liability ; after COGSA a carrier could rely on the Harter Act derived exemptions for errors in navigation or management , even though the vessel was unseaworthy as long as the unseaworthiness was not the cause of the loss . |
| 21 | From there , the enemy could patrol against the Australians while developments took place along the east coast with an airstrip at Fuiloro , where in 1934 ( ! ) some so-called agricultural specialists had taken soil samples for a Japanese company . |
| 22 | No boat could come from the mainland in this wind . ’ |
| 23 | –Bach was well aware of the effects that the mind could exert on the body , realizing that an inharmonious , negative state of mind could impair the body 's vitality and reduce its ability to withstand environmental stress and insults . |
| 24 | The court found that the authority was an emanation of the state and referred to the European Court of Justice the questions of whether the dismissal of the applicant after reaching normal retirement age for a woman constituted discrimination prohibited by Council Directive ( 76/207/EEC ) and whether the applicant could rely on the directive in national courts notwithstanding any inconsistency between it and s. 6(4) of the Act of 1975 . |
| 25 | An unsuccessful applicant could appeal to the regional committee . |
| 26 | He suggests the construction of a continuum of categories , each with its set of conditional factors , in which the practitioner could decide upon the degree of directiveness or non-directiveness needed in a specific situation . |
| 27 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 28 | Then it rumbled along a bridge , so Dot could see into the friendly clutter of people 's back yards , down into bomb-sites to view the mystery of chaos . |
| 29 | However , neither the A. S. M. nor your President could function without the expertise , devotion to duty and above all the sense of humour of our Secretary . |
| 30 | By the 1980s a certain amount of international agreement had developed , suggesting that a country 's spending on research should be justified in primarily economic terms — in terms of the technical innovations which research could deliver to the economy . |