Example sentences of "[coord] could [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included suspicion that a person 's actions could result in armed robbery or ethnic conflict or could deprive a community of the " essentials of life " . |
| 2 | Dunvegan had a well ; the water , Johnson found upon enquiry , was not brackish but hard ; Rorie More 's drinking-horn held two quarts of liquor , ‘ which the heir of Macleod was expected to swallow at a draught … before he was permitted to bear arms , or could claim a seat among the men ’ . |
| 3 | figure is the highest level that we have granted for any riot expenditure , and could involve a sum of between £5 million and £7 million , depending on the claims . |
| 4 | He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ . |
| 5 | Defective plastic studs which easily come loose and could choke a child have been discovered on ten Spanish-made seats . |
| 6 | If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth . |
| 7 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 8 | The ship-launched missile had a range of up to 11 km and could carry a 5kg warhead . |
| 9 | The rival factions involved were sometimes family groups whose hostility was longstanding , but there could also be a local clerical faction : archdeacons tended to have high hopes of gaining the episcopate and could mobilize a body of support . |
| 10 | As well as becoming a superb calligrapher , he was an expert conjurer , performed on musical instruments , played a variety of games and could thread a needle with the best . |
| 11 | Bjornbye was immediately drafted into the party and could make a surprise appearance in the starting line-up at left back . |
| 12 | Both are pessimistic about the outcome of any review and could face a maximum of 7 years in jail if found guilty at a future trial . |
| 13 | He believes , however , that the ‘ contracts ’ should establish prisoners ' ‘ legitimate expectations ’ and could provide a platform for an application for judicial review in cases where conditions became intolerable . |
| 14 | Little is known about the causes of the problem , though a new study of receptors on blood platelets has suggested a possible mechanism , and could provide a way of predicting those women who will suffer postnatal depression . |
| 15 | TAKA and Mari , a pair of gibbons , both at least 31 years old , have had their 29th baby and could win a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world 's most prolific monkey parents , said a vet at a zoo in Hyogo , Japan . |
| 16 | He looked in the mirror and could see a gout of her smoker 's phlegm on his cheek . |
| 17 | It might be thought that , in such an event , a jury ( or magistrate , should the defendant elect summary trial ) , will find that the language is , at least , insulting to those likely to read and be offended by it , and could enter a convention on these grounds . |
| 18 | It would seem more useful to reserve that much over-used tag of ‘ middle-class ’ for those higher up the social and financial scale than Benjamin — those who lived in larger houses with servants , who sent their children to public schools and could afford a day at the races or a night at the opera , suitably dressed . |
| 19 | He announced the timing of each , and could call a halt at any time in answer to prayer . |
| 20 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 21 | Her ankle needed support and could take a bandage now , he said . |
| 22 | Also the professionals are used to moving heavy rolls of carpet around ; you may not be , and could slip a disc ! |
| 23 | He 'd been involved with bands all those years and could play a bit of music but he never quite got the hang of the idea of written music . |
| 24 | Yet , as the latest troubles with Olympia & York and the Tokyo stock market remind us , the recession shows no sign of ending and could get a lot worse unless real interest rates are brought down with a bang — and that means willingness to put the exchange rate mechanism second to domestic monetary policy . |
| 25 | The following day Charlie managed a little food , took a few painful steps the day after and could run a week later . |
| 26 | ( Alice was very good at her school lessons and could remember a lot of things like this . ) |
| 27 | Mr Reynalde played the piano in the intermissions and could remember a time before the war when there was a proper orchestra in the pit . |
| 28 | It could not only prove dangerous to expatriates inadvertently breaking local laws but could damage a company 's reputation and its business dealings . |
| 29 | The bikers were a good crowd but could get a bit out of hand . |