Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 2 | The belief that democracy meant government by the people , or at least by their accountable representatives , was premised on the assumption that governmental power was the power in society , that politics dominated over social and economic life , and that no factional power or interest group could successfully resist the legitimate might of the popular will . |
| 3 | She was eager to mingle with the other guests , but had been carefully primed by Stephen that morning to wait until they could politely leave the prime Minister and his wife . |
| 4 | Not even bureaucrats could wholly ignore the prevailing atmosphere of intellectual excitement . |
| 5 | You could rarely get a straight answer from any of them , they 'd been dodging questions about his father for so long ; evasion was a way of life with them . |
| 6 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 7 | Having several sons in the trade worked to the general benefit of the family business which could thereby offer a wider range of services . |
| 8 | To test for this intention we would have to establish whether he would act as he did in situations where he had no reason to believe that he could thereby induce the false belief in question . |
| 9 | Their trip , if it goes ahead , could eventually transform the lazy economies of Tonga and the Solomon Islands , threaten the future of the grey whale , and dramatically increase the world 's known oil supplies . |
| 10 | I suggested that he might like to go and have a talk with his crew , I did not want to send him back to his squadron , but with a new navigator I believed he could eventually forge a good Pathfinding crew . |
| 11 | If we pumped long enough we could eventually bring the potentiometric surface below the top of the aquifer . |
| 12 | Jiri Dienstbier , the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister , proposed the establishment of a European security commission which could eventually replace the existing two alliances . |
| 13 | With an increased Democratic majority in Congress , the President could rightly claim a massive mandate for his Great Society programmes . |
| 14 | The Cobra 's skin is considered to be highly magnetic , and friction with the earth could perhaps create an electro-magnetic effect . |
| 15 | For example , you could create the design for a simple piece of embroidery using small sprays of pressed flowers , or make an initial design from pressed flowers that could be transferred on to squared paper and used to embroider a handkerchief Both of these ideas would make marvellous presents , and you could perhaps place the finished embroidery in a tissue-lined box that has been decorated with pressed flowers or ribbons . |
| 16 | You could perhaps introduce the occasional hot item such as garlic bread , wrapped in tinfoil , to complement the salad , and hot fudge sauce to pour over an ice cream dessert . |
| 17 | Alternatively either colleagues or neighbour could perhaps ring a relative or friend who might move into your home and take care of things while you are in hospital . |
| 18 | There were a thousand possible combinations … one-four-six , one-four-seven … in twenty minutes I could perhaps try a hundred and fifty numbers . |
| 19 | I could perhaps take a little bit of paper like that and I 'd find |
| 20 | If that is not possible , you could perhaps use a deep pink card mount with a cream silk backing , and a narrow gold frame . |
| 21 | ‘ If you 're free next week , we could perhaps see the new Cher film , ’ he suggested , as if unaware . |
| 22 | Now in a sense erm the question I 'm asking is by introducing lots of modern machinery , you could perhaps kill a particular trade or craftsmanship in a whole group of people which may , in fact , be their key for erm future survival |
| 23 | They could perhaps join the growing band of pundits . |
| 24 | Upward-moving atmospheric waves could greatly heat a rarefied atmosphere . |
| 25 | Conservatives may well believe that the abuse of their authority by men is wrong , but that relationships in which one sex is in such a position that it could so abuse the other are in themselves wrong can not be admitted . |
| 26 | Such confrontation could so interrupt the subconscious flow that he would , in fact , be brought back with a jolt to the present time and would be unable to continue with the regression at all . |
| 27 | Yes , I do enjoy living here , but it 's very different from England and , I must admit , there are times when I miss things back home so much I could literally grab the first plane out of here . ’ |
| 28 | This could inadvertently promote a simplistic zoning pattern in local authority policies . |
| 29 | Now , in the absence of ordeal , they could only await the final vindication of their cause in heaven . |
| 30 | She could only stay a short time , but long enough to hear John thank her for the gift of her daughter . |