Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little class consciousness in the European sense among the peasantry or urban workers in the nineteenth century , though occupational groups such as washermen , carters or fishermen could unite at the local level to protect their economic interests . |
| 2 | This meant that a trust investing solely in , say , gilts or bonds could qualify for the £1,500 limit , which was not the original intention . |
| 3 | Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , told the conference the Government would not push to legislate while neither shops nor shoppers could agree on a solution , pressure groups could not agree , and Parliament could find no consensus . |
| 4 | It was not always thus : in 1983 , when Christie 's sold the first batch of 25,000 pieces of Ming porcelain , found ( also by Hatcher ) in a junk on a reef on the South China Sea , prices were low , because neither auction house nor collectors could see beyond the porcelain 's dull glaze to its historic possibilities . |
| 5 | The place where rivermen dockers and farmworkers could relax after a hard day 's work . |
| 6 | Many employees and organizations could benefit from a structure that acts as a conduit to help ideas flow more readily through an organization . |
| 7 | Soviet scholars and journalists could hint in their writings at problems in specific factories or could criticize particular managers or officials , but the censorship prevented them from generalising their observations into a critique of the system . |
| 8 | It was bad enough having to sleep in the steerage — lying on the floor wherever she could find a place , where cockroaches and rats could run over her while she slept . |
| 9 | The Fairclough report suggests that suitable UK institutions could be offered Faraday Centre status , becoming foci for technologies and expertise of industrial relevance , in which graduate scientists and engineers could work for a higher degree while engaged on contract research before moving into industry . |
| 10 | Dunkirk , Boulogne and Calais , through which British munitions and troops could pass in growing numbers , might have been taken at little cost during the Germans ' initial advance , now they would have to be fought for . |
| 11 | As party discipline tightened and governments could rely on regular majorities , motions ‘ that papers be laid ’ on given subjects were increasingly resisted . |
| 12 | In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock . |
| 13 | He saw that WWF 's first requirement was to convince leaders of political , economic and social life that their own plans and ambitions could come to nothing if they were pursued without regard to those vital things on which all life depended . |
| 14 | Studies at Aberdeen University are testing how literate adults and learners could benefit from better spelling . |
| 15 | Friendship networks so old and intimate that the differences and difficulties could collapse into wild mirth at any instant , or could flare into fights which , however vicious at the time , would not actually change anything nor prevent her and all her friends coming together again soon after , at identical but different pine kitchen tables , scattered in a loose lop-sided circle around central London . |
| 16 | All sorts of substances and tissues could act as inducers ; from rat liver to heat-killed neural tissue itself . |
| 17 | Until today only season ticket- and voucher-holders could apply for tickets for Monday 's Play-Off Final against Leicester , but now they 're on general sale . |
| 18 | Firstly , as needs are not static , improved liaison between suppliers and users could prove to be the best way to ensure a close match between future supply of , and demand for , courses . |
| 19 | Sometimes one sees a family moving between associated crafts : the vintners and grocers could recruit from families in the lesser victualling trades , and workers in base metals might progress to being goldsmiths ( 104 , p.222 ) . |
| 20 | Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play . |
| 21 | Only fools , liars and criminals could hope for mercy from the enemy . |
| 22 | None of these four and five-year-olds could read at that stage . |
| 23 | Gods and goddesses could appear in the form of boulders , trees , birds , snakes , or pillars , but we can be sure that an appearance in human form had the greatest emotional impact . |
| 24 | Watkins also considered that stone circles and henges could act as terminal points . |
| 25 | The fear is that thousands of birds and other native wildlife like seals and otters could die in the oily bath . |
| 26 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |
| 27 | Erlich wondered how men and women could work in such depressing surroundings . |
| 28 | Weekly markets were often held in the churchyard where buyers and sellers could meet after church ; it was natural , therefore , that the fair should be established at a time and place where many people were gathered . |
| 29 | But institutions could compensate for their loss of income by taking a more active role to ensure better performance from the management , which would at least give them the chance of a greater capital gain , so that their total return is unaffected . |
| 30 | Possibly one is a forgery , but slips could occur in charters evidently not fabrications in the normal sense . |