Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [det] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | roughly half of that could go to him |
| 2 | Jacques Delors wants his budget increased by 30 per cent , and some of that could have your name on it . |
| 3 | Many decisions about the implementation , organisation and monitoring of the National Curriculum will have to be taken at school level and each of these could affect the ‘ ordinary teacher ’ . |
| 4 | However , improvements such as this could have been introduced without going wholesale into a market economy for health with its inevitable two-tier system for general practice . |
| 5 | Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film , but normally one would avoid such cacophony . |
| 6 | Exhibitions such as these could bring a new visibility to Greek and Roman art at the Met . |
| 7 | There seems no doubt that molecules such as these could have formed in the seas of the earth at the very beginning of its history . |
| 8 | The problem is that it would be very hard to justify the cost : much of this could go on after students arrived , and the course modified as it went along . |
| 9 | Either of these could match the new borders or blinds or undercurtains , perhaps bringing out a colour that had not been emphasized before . |
| 10 | Yet all of these could happen to any climber . |
| 11 | Yet all of these could amount to Category 3 offences in New South Wales . |
| 12 | All of those could have been candidates to provide extra revenue . |
| 13 | All of those could have been candidates to provide extra revenue . |
| 14 | Many of these could have been prevented if the right measures were available and used correctly . ’ |
| 15 | The data show a wide range of strategies overall , and we would trust that more of these could enter the management vocabulary of more schools . |
| 16 | If the subjects with pneumonia were more likely to return for follow up visits than those without this could have resulted in an overestimation of the incidence of bacterial pneumonia among the drug users who seroconverted . |
| 17 | Any of these could provide a trigger to the memory . |
| 18 | There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day . |
| 19 | However , before any of this could happen , Rear-Admiral Kotov , from the Ordzhonikidze , went to see Rear-Admiral Philip Burnett , Chief of Staff of the Portsmouth naval base , complaining that his sailors had seen a frogman near his ships that morning , and demanding an explanation . |