Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hind limbs were strong and apparently adapted for scratch-digging , and Hyperodapedon could presumably dig up edible tubers and roots . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 3 | Well that one was the most restrictive because that you had to go , you could go any time between was it eight and eleven in the morning , but you could only come back either something like quarter to five , quarter to , no quarter to six was it ? |
| 4 | The realization that this is no future at all could finally bring about radical change , which is still within our grasp . |
| 5 | LESSONS could soon carry on all year at Darlington College of Technology in a bid to make education available to people from different walks of life . |
| 6 | This was directly aimed at the ‘ surplus countries ’ , especially Japan and Germany , and was an attempt to bind them into a system where they could not pile up persistent surpluses . |
| 7 | Riven could not make out individual animals , only the shape of the pack . |
| 8 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 9 | He could not bring back any coherent dream from out of the hours which followed . |
| 10 | In criminal cases the Sanhedrin could pass a sentence of death but could not carry out such a sentence without the approval of the Roman Procurator . |
| 11 | All this was swept away by a new principle which was introduced in the early part of the nineteenth century , namely , that a local authority could not carry out any function unless strictly authorised by statute . |
| 12 | Yet it was , I think , a tragedy for both parties that the whale of London could not keep down this nimble Jonah who distracted , but so well stimulated , her lethargic stomach . |
| 13 | As the pain became more intense there was less and less space for his mind to wander over things , undone things that suddenly took on ridiculous and unrealistic urgency , but his thoughts were still churning with his innards and he could not keep out stray fragments of enacted scenes any more than he could stop the brilliant black fish from swimming in the air past his eyes . |
| 14 | Try as he might , the man could not cast out this devil of himself . |
| 15 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 16 | While this was useful and did hold the attention of members interested in the specific subjects being examined , the subcommittees moved from one area of expenditure to another each session so that they developed no expertise and could not follow up previous work . |
| 17 | The Libyan plane was about eight nautical miles from Italian air space when it was told by air traffic controllers in Malta that it could not fly over Italian territory , an Italian air force spokesman said . |
| 18 | I am afraid we could not agree over certain … artistic matters . |
| 19 | Anne wrestled with the ruler and map , putting crosses at our dead-reckoned positions since we still could not pick up any navaids . |
| 20 | First , I recall that when I was a theological student , having come from a fairly conservative church , I could not square up I Kings with I Chronicles . |
| 21 | At least , he supposed that it was important , but he could not work up any enthusiasm . |
| 22 | It was nearly dark , but in the half-light you could just make out four or five women fussing around a surprisingly elderly-looking girl trussed up in a red Rajasthani costume . |
| 23 | There were open sliding glass windows at the side of the house and in the dim interior I could just make out two figures standing . |
| 24 | On the wall behind the plant she could just make out irregular painted spirals of pale gold . |
| 25 | About a hundred and fifty yards away I could just make out three figures crossing at the corner of the field and approaching the road in our direction . |
| 26 | On the back he could just make out some printed words . |
| 27 | In the dim light she could just make out some moving shapes . |
| 28 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 29 | ‘ I could hardly read up this bit , could I ? |
| 30 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |