Example sentences of "could [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of any classification and very basic retrieval tools make finding the document rather tricky , but you may find a more organised recipient to re-mail a copy which you could cannibalise to form the basis of your next report on a similar topic . |
| 2 | He set out to launch a North American colony to which Catholics could retreat to avoid the discrimination that seemed to have become unalterably established in England and in New England . |
| 3 | Neither of us could wait to get the round over , we were so cold and miserable . |
| 4 | However , the Inland Revenue could seek to recover the tax due by summary judgment under only one of the alternative assessments ( p 108 ) . |
| 5 | However , the Inland Revenue could seek to recover the tax due by summary judgment under only one of the alternative assessments , since to do otherwise would be vexatious . |
| 6 | If such consent is withheld , then the doctor could seek to have the child made a ward of court . |
| 7 | A simple cervical test between the 24th and 34th weeks of pregnancy would alert doctors , who could act to delay the birth . |
| 8 | One Tory veteran , the former headmaster Sir Rhodes Boyson , warned that vigilantes could appear to take the law into their own hands unless the Government took drastic action . |
| 9 | The issue now facing the Party had become the defeat of global finance capital , and in that struggle the Party could choose to support the rights of national independence or of world proletarian unity , but not both . |
| 10 | A time was to be fixed for the expedition in the month of November , and by leaving in the evening on the ebb tide we could expect to reach the shores of Wight with the full morning flood . |
| 11 | THERE was a time , I suppose , when you could expect to carry the essentials of modern technological developments in your head , and retrieve them pretty quickly and accurately . |
| 12 | Samples of both victims ' blood would be taken from the bodies at the post-mortem , but it would be three days at least before he could expect to get the result of the analysis . |
| 13 | It was as much as she could do to push the hand-cart and to carry her body around with her . |
| 14 | It seemed there was nothing he could do to persuade the child to cease her disobedience , nothing he could say which would frighten her sufficiently for her to come to her senses . |
| 15 | What does my right hon. Friend think that we could do to stop the drug being imported into this country , or arranging some reciprocal arrangement whereby we would stop importing Dutch cheese or some such thing ? |
| 16 | And there was nothing Paul Kee could do to stop the kick . |
| 17 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 18 | But then the dark powers rose , and the four Cities fell ; it was the most we could do to save the Treasures . |
| 19 | I have read a book called 50 Simple things Kids Could Do To Save The Earth . |
| 20 | Maybe it was the hypnotic , rhythmic drone of the aircraft engines , or the sheer emotional exhaustion of the past few hours , but there seemed little she could do to suppress the memories she had so resolutely buried during the last five years . |
| 21 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 22 | Consider if you are fit and healthy enough to endure this or is there something you could do to improve the situation . |
| 23 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 24 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
| 25 | Surely there was something he could do to alleviate the suffering of this creature ? |
| 26 | Indeed at times it has seemed difficult to see what the newcomers could do to alleviate the resentments they have occasionally caused . |
| 27 | It shows how much we could do to address the threat of climate change if we were really serious about saving energy . " |
| 28 | It produces a good number of peaches every August but the greenhouse is in desperate need of replacement and she does n't have to , want to have to put another one in that position so is there anything cheap , she says , that she could do to help the tree to survive and fruit in a large open garden in Preston in Lancashire without the greenhouse , Walter ? |
| 29 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 30 | Critics might complain of what one of them called " the mysterious and irresponsible manner in which foreign politics are arranged " ; but there was little they could do to change the situation . |