Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury . |
| 2 | At this stage in the study , there were still many questions unanswered about detailed aspects of the new legislation , and it was also necessary to find out more about College activities and functions , particularly those that could eventually contribute to the exercise of balancing costs with income . |
| 3 | Alcide de Gasperi was particularly interested in the EPC proposal which was initially vague but could eventually lead to a common parliament , a joint foreign policy and a full ‘ common market ’ . |
| 4 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |
| 5 | Churchill had been long enough at the Treasury , and could perhaps go to the India Office . |
| 6 | It , it might , I was going to suggest Moderator that if , if the thing were amended to , to delete the word rite er and , and and perhaps have , you know , the whole issue rather than th the rite it could perhaps go to the , the panel on doctrine and be perfectly in order . |
| 7 | If you could let me know the publisher of the patterns and the numbers I could perhaps write to the publisher for copies . |
| 8 | It was successfully argued that the phrase " is or " could only relate to a customer when the soliciting is taking place . |
| 9 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 10 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 11 | The appetite for power these immense forces display worried Stead , and he argued their style could only lead to an autocratic national system with a minister of central government at the apex . |
| 12 | Hirst ( 1981:p. 55 ) reports that informants agreed that ‘ it ’ could only refer to the wine , and not to the table . |
| 13 | The structures of the Pentateuch were good but a stable and wealthy economic society could only flourish to the extent that Israel was obedient to the whole of the law and its commandment . |
| 14 | He sought to show how the laws imposed by certain countries to attract internationally mobile inward investment could only operate to the detriment of other states . |
| 15 | However , in Pomerania , where more than 30 per cent of all farms over 400 hectares were owned by Germans , such a reform could only add to the tensions and aggravations that already abounded in the border districts . |
| 16 | I had never seen a kiln fired before and the unpredictable behaviour of live flame could only add to the already restless sensuality of the afternoon . |
| 17 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 18 | But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion . |
| 19 | Lachlan was being left in charge of the castle , and Lady Marion could not go to the ceremony , for the baby was near its time . |
| 20 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 21 | Blanche could not go to the hospital herself . |
| 22 | I could not go to the Hall earlier that day . ’ |
| 23 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 24 | Cards could not talk to the divinator . |
| 25 | Those who could stand the pace flourished ; those who could not went to the wall . |
| 26 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 27 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 28 | It could not refer to the events of ten years past , of course it could n't . |
| 29 | The man dropped the tiny fraction of the cigarette that he could not smoke to the ground , letting the last acrid smoulder of it rise in the air . |
| 30 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |