Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the election campaign resumes , the responsibility for India 's future could well revert to the Congress Party . |
| 2 | A week after the Nürburgring , I think anyone would have been hard put to imagine that Niki could possibly return to racing . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I think Italian football could well appeal to the ladies . |
| 4 | If so , the latest developments in the hospitality industry could well appeal to you . |
| 5 | I had never seen a kiln fired before and the unpredictable behaviour of live flame could only add to the already restless sensuality of the afternoon . |
| 6 | He sought to show how the laws imposed by certain countries to attract internationally mobile inward investment could only operate to the detriment of other states . |
| 7 | But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion . |
| 8 | ( 1 ) For the purposes of arts 5 and 7 ( see above ) : ( a ) the value of an action for a sum of money , whether specified or not , is the amount which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover ; ( b ) an action for specified relief other than a sum of money : ( i ) has a value equal to the amount of money which the plaintiff or applicant could reasonably state to be the financial worth of the claim to him , or ( ii ) where there is no such amount , has no quantifiable value . |
| 9 | A police constable caused great concern with his assertions , made for the first time some years ago , that some Kent police officers were offering inducements to prisoners to make false admissions to offences , and to confess to crimes that they had not committed , so that the force could then add to the number of crimes they had ‘ detected ’ , and thereby improve their crime clear-up statistics . |
| 10 | But a forgery could always claim to be written by Moses in the same terms as an authentic Mosaic document . |
| 11 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 12 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 13 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 14 | Yet it 's hard to see how any court of law could possibly agree to them being removed from her . |
| 15 | If challenged in court , Nimslo 's patent coverage could well prove to be cosmetic . |
| 16 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 17 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 18 | That the end of communism could also prove to be the end of the Catholic church 's unquestioned moral authority in Poland was the last thing the church hierarchy expected when the Solidarity leader , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , himself a long-time Catholic activist , became the first non-communist prime minister in 1989 . |
| 19 | When it is said in Psalms that the enemies will be smitten in the ‘ hinder parts ’ it has been thought by many people to refer to haemorrhoids , but the description could equally refer to the anal manifestations of secondary syphilis , condylomata lata . |
| 20 | His description could well apply to the 1960s in the UK , with the proviso perhaps that social changes lagged behind the business cycle somewhat . |
| 21 | However , in Pomerania , where more than 30 per cent of all farms over 400 hectares were owned by Germans , such a reform could only add to the tensions and aggravations that already abounded in the border districts . |
| 22 | The discussion at this point could then lead to Lowe and Chua 's suggested analysis of this phenomenon , that is by examining ‘ activity spaces ’ of those involved with the organization and the ‘ feasible region ’ which highlights the making of profit , which is detailed in the text . |
| 23 | Any international body could minimally agree to a framework of discussion and agreement . |
| 24 | The move could also lead to an acceleration in the sports car sales . |
| 25 | Output could eventually rise to 300 a day , making Dagenham the sole European source of the new van . |
| 26 | The Duke had cause for worry , yet as he strolled down the rue Royale he was forced to put a brave face on the desperate odds lest his enemies took courage from his despair.The Duke could also cling to one strong hope , namely that his scratch army would not fight Napoleon alone , but alongside Prince Blücher 's Prussians . |
| 27 | But what I have tried to show is that a theist could actually claim to be abiding by the Verification Principle when making statements about God . |
| 28 | The hidden agenda could easily appear to be that " our drama is the least important thing in the school " . |
| 29 | The argument could then turn to whether there was one . |
| 30 | Dustin could never go to a chemist and ask for condoms , although he had no difficulty in buying women 's contraceptives . |