Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was for the Roman to decide whether he would speak in Latin or in Greek to a Greek public — that is , with or without interpreter — and Aemilius Paulus could skilfully pass from one language to the other ( Liv . |
| 2 | In fact the existence of code-switching is not incompatible with the continuum hypothesis , since speakers could presumably switch between different lects at the extremes of their own range . |
| 3 | ‘ The plan is to use that money as a launching pad for further funds that could eventually result in major building work , ’ he said . |
| 4 | He could eventually grow to five feet or more . |
| 5 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 6 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 7 | The work , if confirmed , could eventually lead to clinical application in the treatment of aplastic anaemia and malignancy . |
| 8 | Although these actions could eventually lead to improved records management generally , the high cost in terms of staff involvement that would result was felt to outweigh the benefits that would be gained . |
| 9 | It claims that with such a tax incentive biofuels could eventually account for 5 per cent of overall fuel consumption in the Community . |
| 10 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 11 | Output could eventually rise to 300 a day , making Dagenham the sole European source of the new van . |
| 12 | The conceptual content required in this case to describe the institution , though it involves a great deal of cultural elaboration , does not display the same kind of break between the pre-cultural and the cultural as is found in the incest case ; and the biological pattern of explanation could recognizably run through such ideas as human beings finding certain institutions ‘ natural ’ , which does not require any appeal to a rational collective agency to understand the basic biological idea , as is damagingly the case with the incest example . |
| 13 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 14 | It was like the blackout , which Charles could suddenly remember with great clarity . |
| 15 | probably erm the clerk could perhaps deal with that then . |
| 16 | The writer would like to consider this document in some detail at a later date , but could perhaps close with two questions : |
| 17 | It may not be rat-infested , but any good entrepreneur could swiftly see to that . |
| 18 | bad we could all live in four-bedroomed detached houses ca n't you ? |
| 19 | Then the hardy ‘ theme venue crawler ’ could literally fall into nearby Bertie 's . |
| 20 | She could only rely on that , his wearying before she did . |
| 21 | For some reason she could only move with nightmarish sluggishness , while everyone around her tore past with dizzying speed . |
| 22 | But somehow Folly could only think of one person who might have sent her so tantalising a message . |
| 23 | ‘ I could only think of stupid , unimportant questions . |
| 24 | I could only think of that oh so English phrase ‘ It 's not fair ’ . |
| 25 | They could only think of another children 's home . |
| 26 | The rear gunner loosed off a round of deadliness in the general direction of the fighter , but , it seemed , he was not the target and Biggins could only watch in morbid fascination as his wing man went down in flames . |
| 27 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 28 | Less than two centuries ago , when the English Romantics saw the Alps they could only stare with wild surmise . |
| 29 | Taken aback , she could only stare in wide-eyed silence at the man who had materialised out of nowhere at her side . |
| 30 | Occasionally she would allow her gaze to drop on to one of the other patients with a look which Theodora could only interpret as startled amazement . |