Example sentences of "could [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments using the simulation model are thus made possible ; an example given earlier showed how a planner could modify a river-basin simulation model to allow for the expansion of an urban area . |
| 2 | The idea is that it could supervise an Iraqi withdrawal or police the Kuwait-Iraq border if Saddam Hussein ordered a pull-out . |
| 3 | It is also possible that small intestinal overgrowth with deconjugating bacteria was present in some cases , which could counteract a concomitant effect of ileal dysfunction on bile acid synthesis . |
| 4 | He then made two transfer requests and Wilkinson seized the first opportunity he could to unload the controversial star . |
| 5 | Cluster groups of schools could conduct a joint review , sharing their experiences . |
| 6 | Their willingness to do so was confirmed by Libya 's foreign minister , Ibrahim Bechari , who said that Western investigators were welcome in Libya and that the Libyan judge looking into the allegations , Ahmed al-Zawi , would like to have more US or Scottish evidence in the case so that he could conduct a solid interrogation of the two men . |
| 7 | Health Department guidelines supported by the college say that HIV-infected health care workers could conduct a normal delivery as long as it did not involve invasive surgery . |
| 8 | To return to the second point about church growth made at the end of the second chapter , ‘ demand ’ is not the only factor in church growth ; one must also consider supply , and the Free Church was gradually coming into the position where it could service the new demand . |
| 9 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 10 | Neither did I. I never imagined that a father could treat a dying child as cruelly and wickedly as we later discovered Heathcliff had done . |
| 11 | The comments come just ahead of two key decisions by Scottish Office ministers which will set the tone for the new curriculum and could damage the wide agreement over its introduction . |
| 12 | The BA 's trade practice executive Sydney Davies , in a letter to the Home Office , reiterated concern that the directive could damage the free flow of information and add ‘ an intolerable and costly administrative burden to the book industry ’ . |
| 13 | One , where the exerciser has one leg outstretched and the other bent backwards , ‘ could damage the bent knee enough to warrant surgery ’ , says Wendy . |
| 14 | So intently did Nietzsche interpret Schopenhauer 's " personal " relevance at this time , that he could locate the vital centre of the philosopher 's system in its therapeutic power to help with the practical crises of living . |
| 15 | It could explain a wide range of phenomena . |
| 16 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 17 | As the Zuccarelli tone will be heard in addition to the natural tone from the ear of a headphone listener , this could explain the exaggerated effect of his recordings . |
| 18 | Mr Heyerdahl could explain the great stone statues on Easter Island in the south Pacific only by insisting that South Americans must have gone there . |
| 19 | The MPs have concluded this could explain the leftwing bias they allege in some TV programmes . |
| 20 | It could explain the terrified silence that reigned every time they were locked up alone with him . |
| 21 | It had been the great achievement of the geologists to explain how , given enough time , the operation of exactly the same forces visible today could explain the enormous variety of what could be observed on the inanimate earth , past and present . |
| 22 | What could explain the dual use of words like ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ if not resemblance in the things of which they were used ? |
| 23 | If you have regular periods , though , or unusually long or short cycles , mention it since this could affect the due date . |
| 24 | But it is not clear how adult mortality rates could affect the optimal timing of maturity . |
| 25 | In this respect , recommendations by the team were subject to approval by senior county staff who sometimes had inside information which could affect the final decision . |
| 26 | Her parents say no-one warned them that the drug , Pre , could affect the immune system , making Lexie more susceptible to infection . |
| 27 | During 1979 various County and Metropolitan areas submitted Bills to the House of Commons for new powers and the designer is advised to check if any Act has been passed which could affect the proposed location of the high-bay warehouse . |
| 28 | In theory , at least , his knowledge of technology , and in particular his military ability , could affect the whole course of the planet 's history . |
| 29 | But assuming that matches can be achieved on all the known likely factors , there may well be others that could affect the main relationship of interest that are not known about . |
| 30 | How could he believe , really believe , that this primal stuff and nonsense , this superstition , could affect the day-to-day operation of the most important scientific expedition of its time ? |