Example sentences of "could [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you could stay in the spare room over with me , out in the bedroom in the back there , for thirty dollars a night ? ’ |
| 2 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 3 | During the process the bronze was bathed in a solution of zinc salts and , unless it was carefully washed afterwards , some of these zinc salts could persist in the remaining patina on the surface . |
| 4 | When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup . |
| 5 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 6 | Praxsys could deliver in the fourth quarter : early 1993 is more likely . |
| 7 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 8 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 9 | So the parable envisages a situation that could arise in the early Church and advises that human judgment makes mistakes . |
| 10 | We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system . |
| 11 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 12 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 13 | So we should not be dogmatic , and assume that the kind of life we have on Earth is the only kind that could exist in the entire Universe ; and ‘ living ’ clays may flourish elsewhere , perhaps even on Mars ( as suggested by Professor Hyman Hartman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . |
| 14 | A free man , on the other hand , could appeal in the public courts against any increase in the burdens imposed on him . |
| 15 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 16 | and for Mill , representative democracy was the only way democracy could survive in the modern world . |
| 17 | It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World . |
| 18 | Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 19 | THE GARDENS OF Balmoral in the middle of August displayed as much glory as the devoted skill of the gardeners could achieve in the short-lived Scottish summer . |
| 20 | Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name . |
| 21 | The exclusion of parts of the centre " let or constructed or adapted for letting " is fair and reasonable , but quite often an exclusion will relate only to parts of the centre " not let on the same terms as this lease " which could result in the occupying tenants paying part of the service charges for unlet premises . |
| 22 | All the authorities have twenty eight days to appeal that could result in the final cap being higher , lower or staying the same . |
| 23 | Free elections , which could result in the Communist Party being reduced to playing a junior role , are seen as the only realistic way forward to end East Germany 's political and economic crisis . |
| 24 | After all , every creature is entitled to some form of recreation and though Shep 's hobby could result in the occasional heart failure it was , after all , his thing and part of him . |
| 25 | Any delay could result in the ultimate catastrophe . |
| 26 | The Finnish Parliament 's Wilderness Act , which includes plans to log some of the county 's most ancient forests , has come under attack from environmentalists who claim that it could result in the permanent destruction of the wilderness . |
| 27 | The risk that failure to agree terms could result in the outgoing partner seeking a formal dissolution of the firm on peremptory notice is one which is not worth running . |
| 28 | This could result in the blind and pleats falling at an angle to the window . |
| 29 | The THES added in an editorial that the withdrawal of CNAA recognition could result in the grave consequence of the closure of an institution in the largest conurbation in Europe without a university : |
| 30 | Quick air-reinforcement with infantry was one thing , but any serious fighting or prolonged operations would need far heavier loads and greater tonnages of ammunition and supplies than the RAF could lift in the required time scale . |