Example sentences of "could [vb infin] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 2 | As it was not yet open , she sat on the step beside a broken box of rotting plums and watched the market traders going about their business : they all seemed to be in their usual mood of precarious good humour which could splinter at any moment into invective and menacing gesture . |
| 3 | Intuitively , one would guess that abnormalities could arise at many points in such a system and we will now consider severe clinical disorders which bear this out . |
| 4 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 5 | The Sun claims that the Stonebridge council estate in north London ‘ is Britain 's tinderbox where Los Angeles-style riots could explode at any time ’ . |
| 6 | One of Brazil 's biggest industrial areas has become an environmental time-bomb which could explode at any time . |
| 7 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 8 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 9 | think what I 'd like , but I could n't prove anything and erm , so there was nothing that the ombudsman could do at that stage , at , as the stage complete |
| 10 | It clearly was n't something that the patrol section could do at that time . |
| 11 | There was nothing more we could do at this stage , so we enjoyed a leisurely lunch , and Sunday was cancelled ( which was fortunate , as it rained ) . |
| 12 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 14 | It was the best he could do at short notice . |
| 15 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 16 | And , and , and all , he 'd got all countries ' television er going , you know , so you could look at any country at the moment , the moment it was producing . |
| 17 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |
| 18 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 19 | Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership . |
| 20 | On the other hand he could work at all hours of the day and night — much to the dismay of his advisers and household servants who would have preferred a more predictable routine . |
| 21 | She wrote eighteen more novels , none of them distinguished or now read , enabling her to live alone in relative comfort for sixty years and to give her only son the best upper-class education that her country could provide at that time . |
| 22 | The only bed he could claim at this point was in his penitential cell , but he went to it eagerly , glad to have a locked door between himself and the world . |
| 23 | This indicates that suitable depositional and tectonic environments for Irish-style mineralisation could occur at reasonable depths . |
| 24 | This could occur at all levels . |
| 25 | The pipeline from Petrobras passes beneath the houses ; an explosion could occur at any time . |
| 26 | St. Leonard 's Street , Sheepmarket and Broad Street were notorious arenas for these events which could occur at any time through the winter months . |
| 27 | Maureen said that her mother seemed free of pain but he warned her it could return at any moment . |
| 28 | Analysts said last night that oil prices could stabilise at present levels of around $18 a barrel if OPEC could prevent ‘ leakage ’ which would cause total cartel supply to rise above 24 million bpd until the end of June . |
| 29 | Although Hertfordshire distinguished between tutor-librarians ( whose job was primarily educational ) and " college librarians " , whose job was supposed to be entirely administrative , many felt that such distinctions were meaningless or misleading ; it was all a matter of proportion , and nobody ( it was argued ) working in a college library could avoid at some stage taking part in the educational process . |
| 30 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |