Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill 's loyalty to his apprentice had been ill rewarded this evening and no trainer could afford to be sentimental . |
| 2 | Looking at those lists provides interesting reading and bears out the used-car trade 's view that having a lead-only car could prove to be a liability . |
| 3 | I had wondered how a man in his right mind could want to be with me and decided that no girl in her right mind would want to be with him . |
| 4 | In the run-up to the general election his endorsement of independence could prove to be the SNP 's greatest asset . |
| 5 | Corinth could afford to be indifferent to the vengeance Athens took against Samos ; Megara was what mattered to Corinth , and Megara was now back in the Peloponnesian camp . |
| 6 | The seventh LDC could prove to be a watershed in the contentious history of ocean dumping . |
| 7 | It may , however , be that even without this provision , a landlord who had granted a licence to a tenant signed by an authorised director could expect to be estopped from denying its effectiveness . |
| 8 | This new right could prove to be of particular utility in medical negligence claims . |
| 9 | He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers . |
| 10 | She showed no inclination to argue further , but lay back in her chair , smiling at Robert , and I saw that it was not , as I had believed , understanding and acceptance that her smile revealed , not that their marriage was so secure it could sustain itself in the face of any disagreement , but that Lili could afford to be pleasant because she had no scruples . |
| 11 | Had problems occurred , the peripheral configuration could have been reconnected to the 600J so that service could continue to be provided until the problems were resolved and the cut over completed on the next weekend . |
| 12 | For a flying delivery to be effected the Vulcan Display Team crew could need to be kept would need to be kept current on XH558 ( they must at least fly every 28 days under current procedures ) which would necessitate check-flights until a buyer is established . |
| 13 | On that evidence , therefore , and in spite of last night 's ominous phrases that the government would not tolerate ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ , it seems that the statement is more likely to be a specific warning — that people breaking in to armouries to steal weapons or ammunition could expect to be met by physical force — than a sign that the military are planning a political takeover . |
| 14 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 15 | The wait would be well worth it for such a blind release ; and in this motley crowd , drawn from a dozen hamlets outside in addition to the town , her companion was nameless and faceless as a hunted man could wish to be . |
| 16 | So the legal and moral aspects of not prolonging life could continue to be discussed notwithstanding Dr. Arthur 's trial , but the prosecution itself could not be the focal point of the discussion . |
| 17 | To begin with I found the subject somewhat tedious , but as the weeks passed I became fascinated by how meticulously recording each transaction could prove to be so beneficial even to our little business . |
| 18 | More and more governments now demanded diplomatic services systematically and even rigidly organised , in which efficiency carried more weight and merit could expect to be rewarded more effectively . |
| 19 | The Sapphire could prove to be not only a big hit with disabled people , but also a major success for the Coventry company which manufactures it , as ordinary wheelchairs become a thing of the past . |
| 20 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 21 | No doctor could hope to be appointed to a job or advance his or her career , even in a so called teaching hospital , on the basis of his teaching skills alone . |
| 22 | On its recovery from the Plague the city could claim to be one of the most progressive in Europe , with trade in leather and metal goods , knives and weapons , as well as silk . |
| 23 | The bad winter weather with no guaranteed snow cover could prove to be this expansion 's downfall . |
| 24 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 25 | The tensions associated with starting school could begin to be dissolved long before that anxiously awaited first day , a day which often causes more anguish to parents than it does to their children . |
| 26 | Jeff Wright of the National Research Council 's Institute for Marine Biosciences ( IMB ) in Halifax , Nova Scotia , believes that the discovery of this toxin could prove to be another useful tool for molecular biologists studying cell regulation mechanisms . |
| 27 | The task is on-going ; just as education ought not to have an end , in the sense that an individual could claim to be ‘ fully educated ’ , so schools are in the process of becoming effective . |
| 28 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 29 | Who needs to be told that ‘ partnership and cooperation could prove to be the watchwords for the 1990s ’ ? |
| 30 | Neither partner could fail to be aware of the interest in their company which , more than once , threatened to result in a book chronicling their success , especially as Laura had just finished working on the first Laura Ashley Book of Home Decorating . |