Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucenzo ran lightly to the bow and vaulted the rail , landing neatly on the jetty to fasten the rope to the black and gold-striped bricole , timing everything to perfection so that he could single-handedly dock the boat and kill the engine . |
| 2 | I am afraid that the proposed law changes could fundamentally alter the game . |
| 3 | Lurking in the corridors of Brussels is a draft EC directive which could fundamentally change the way the Panel works . |
| 4 | It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it . |
| 5 | As a result of the decision , which was handed down by a judge in Newcastle , the holders of all Ministry Licences could successfully contest the termination date of existing agreements . |
| 6 | In November 1987 , Silviu Brucan compared Ceauşescu 's rule unfavourably with the 1960s when ‘ the Party could successfully control the mass of the workers because … a turn for the better occurred in the standard of living in almost three million peasants who joined the urban industrial workforce . ’ |
| 7 | The Asaimara were thereby convinced they could successfully defy the Government . |
| 8 | Since they won their independence from the Ottoman empire 170 years ago , there have been only three times when Greeks could justifiably feel the world was smiling on them . |
| 9 | In abolishing the marital rape exemption , Parliament could presumably seek an undertaking that this be done from the Attorney General who has general superintendence over the discharge of the Director 's functions . |
| 10 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 11 | References in the text of the rules to ‘ custody ’ and ‘ observation ’ support a decision that the court could properly order the sending of an item of property out of the jurisdiction , in the instant case to South Africa , so that it could be identified by a witness whose evidence was being taken on commission there . |
| 12 | The minister did not believe that Tameside Council could properly implement the change within the limited time available . |
| 13 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 14 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 15 | But not all the skills and ingenuity of law draftsmen could wholly circumvent the deviousness of ancient land law . |
| 16 | But EC diplomats admitted last night that any further tightening of the pressure on Libya could badly strain the Community 's fragile unity . |
| 17 | This centripetal tendency could eventually promote the construction of additional side-streets and lanes , as we shall see later . |
| 18 | Prior to Batrec 's operations , Swiss batteries — even those collected separately by local authorities — were either sent abroad to dubious foreign dumps or were incinerated at home — a process which raised fears that residues could eventually enter the food chain . |
| 19 | Specialists believe the discovery could eventually allow the use of drugs to correct the fault and reduce the risks for women who by the age of 50 have a 60 per cent chance of developing one of those cancers if they carry the defective gene . |
| 20 | Proposals to re-classify the ancient track crossing National Trust commonland as a ‘ byway open to all traffic ’ has brought growing fears that Farnham Lane could eventually become a link to the new A3 Hindhead bypass . |
| 21 | It further develops and tests a notational scheme for this function which could eventually become the basis of a standard in this field of practice . |
| 22 | He had a good speaking voice , he was persuasive , he could mostly secure the attention of his opponents . |
| 23 | Men like Thomas Cromwell , William Paget , William Cecil , Francis Walsingham , and Robert Cecil gained an unrivalled knowledge of affairs and could effectively operate the machine . |
| 24 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 25 | The Abbey National was less sanguine : ‘ This could effectively put a seal on the property market to the end of the year , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 26 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 27 | A rake left lying on the ground is dangerous , not only because of its teeth , but because an unwary step on the head of the rake could suddenly swing the handle upright with shattering force . |
| 28 | There are also fears that a genetic mutation — over which there could be no control — could suddenly produce a GEM with some nasty trick up its sleeve . |
| 29 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 30 | One could perhaps compare The Oak , by the Rev. John Keble : to see how Wordsworth can still avoid lapsing into utter platitude and sentimentality . |