Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much more dramatic break with the current political tradition is required if progress is to be made in building support for the policies that could spring Britain 's underclass from its current position . |
| 2 | The opposition Labour Party expressed fears that EC membership could damage Malta 's economy and might lead to an unacceptable loss of independence and sovereignty . |
| 3 | He believed that the sexuality of man , unlike any other animal , developed in two waves and this could explain man 's susceptibility to neuroses . |
| 4 | His family slipped down the social ladder when his father 's garden-gnome business collapsed , but that could explain Major 's obsession , less with classlessness than with petit bourgeois respectability . |
| 5 | We may find something there which could explain Irvine 's death and Selkirk 's death-bearing verses . ’ |
| 6 | Men were subject to their fathers , to their elder brothers ; women were subject to men ( though some could influence men 's treatment of women , and some could play a political role in relations among men ) . |
| 7 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | For the time being they could evade Allen 's choice by challenging the assumption that the League represented anything more than the collective security of a group of satisfied imperial powers . |
| 9 | I could eradicate Frankenstein 's monster . |
| 10 | I could look after Hepzibah , I could buy Druid 's Bottom , and we could all live there together . |
| 11 | They could approve providers ' capital plans . |
| 12 | I could recognise Eric 's voice . |
| 13 | This is Spain 's first ever win against the Romanians in over 30 years of mutual contact and could signal Spain 's coming of age as a rugby power in Europe . |
| 14 | Hopes that the republic could survive Yugoslavia 's demise intact have been blunted by territorial battles reminiscent of the opening rounds of the civil war in neighbouring Croatia . |
| 15 | Now he would take things much further and see whether he could translate Ebert 's restlessness into something more useful . |
| 16 | Wycliffe could sense Oldroyd 's mind ticking over . |
| 17 | ‘ You could sense Elizabeth 's excitement at the thought of going out and meeting her friends . |
| 18 | She could sense Nathan 's soul , a hot , bright radiance , inextricably joined to the essence of her being . |
| 19 | Owen could sense Georgiades 's astonishment . |
| 20 | I could sense Alec 's confusion , too . |
| 21 | She smelt like she had in the garden but with one important difference : I could smell Shelly 's invitation to sex on her . |
| 22 | From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself . |
| 23 | He did n't say , ‘ Get lost , Kraut , ’ but just asked if he could borrow Speich 's note-pad and ball-point . |
| 24 | At the time , it seemed that nothing could break Ceauşescu 's hold over a servile and cowardly Party élite . |
| 25 | ‘ So that I could welcome Isabelle 's daughter to my house in person . ’ |
| 26 | She could feel Patrick 's erection digging into the side of her leg , his excitement making her more breathless by the second . |
| 27 | The boy could feel Izzie 's body brush past him as she crawled into a corner . |
| 28 | I could feel Hugo 's body similarly missing mine . |
| 29 | She could feel Maggie 's distress ; Maggie needed more than to have her care about the house . |
| 30 | As she fumbled with trembling fingers at the clip on her safety harness she could feel Nathan 's gaze burning into her . |