Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going over to the window , she could make out odd moon shadows on the garden . |
| 2 | We could make more efficient use of power generation too . |
| 3 | Of course , other concepts , other properties and attributes , could make more significant use of the properties of number systems other than their ability to classify . |
| 4 | Against an immobile target , such as a wall , even the early cannon could inflict quite considerable damage . |
| 5 | On 18 September , Environment Minister Chris Patten flew to Brussels for talks with Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana , according to The Times still ‘ optimistic that he could head off threatened prosecution of Britain by the European Court ’ by showing that ‘ Britain was doing everything it could to comply with the European drinking water legislation . ’ |
| 6 | That was an answer I could give in medical detail , and so I did . |
| 7 | McLeish instantly understood the man 's nightmare but realized he could give only qualified reassurance . |
| 8 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 9 | By introducing extra highly-active copies of the gene for one of these proteins into a cell , a tumour virus could bring about increased production of the critical protein . |
| 10 | If Brontosaurus was any taller , a fall could bring about severe head injuries . |
| 11 | Journalists could whip up public indignation but cricket and football authorities were singularly unresponsive to press influence apart from The Times . |
| 12 | But Central Office could exert only informal pressure , since it could neither bully nor bribe its local supporters , and this is exactly what Steel-Maitland set out to do through his district agents . |
| 13 | With only one lorry and one car to supply all the needs of the two dozen overseas staff there was no way to escape other people or one 's own negative traits which could become glaringly obvious living in such confined quarters . |
| 14 | Through the window he could see over grey slate roofs across the bay to Newlyn , a mound of little houses behind its quays and boats and sheds . |
| 15 | Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender , peeling , silver trunk of a nearby birch tree . |
| 16 | Where a file area contains N addresses we can expect : In theory we could provide just sufficient space in the file for all the records . |
| 17 | Yugoslav peace conference chairman , Lord Owen has warned failure of the talks could unleash more ferocious fighting . |
| 18 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 19 | You 're right Eileen it , you could have really bad luck and have all four children with P K U or you could have really good luck and none of them have P K U , or you could have half and half , that 's just an example , with each successive pregnancy you stand a one in four chance , those are all the possibilities , but like throwing the dice it comes up at random . |
| 20 | You 're right Eileen it , you could have really bad luck and have all four children with P K U or you could have really good luck and none of them have P K U , or you could have half and half , that 's just an example , with each successive pregnancy you stand a one in four chance , those are all the possibilities , but like throwing the dice it comes up at random . |
| 21 | In Vienna , almost to the end of his long reign , Francis Joseph could have very real control . |
| 22 | For example , the enhanced possibility of bankruptcy and default arising from failure to meet contracts fixed in money terms could have quite severe knock on effects for the whole financial system . |
| 23 | In Jesus all of God that could take on human expression had been expressed . |
| 24 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 25 | He could take up organic farming and selling nurture as nature intended to a consumer market now seriously worried about E numbers and Alar . |
| 26 | Third , the polarisation between information workers and the rest could take particularly sharp form in the welfare services which employ large numbers of semiskilled workers as carers and in the ancillary services . |
| 27 | In the air at around 3,500 feet I found that , provided one held it with the antenna close to horizontal , the ICOM IC-A20 MkII could produce quite accurate VOR indications at distances of well over 25 nm from the VOR — rather better than my own King KX99 does . |
| 28 | Those large and lumpish hands could produce exquisitely fine work when required , and she relished the thoughts of others . |
| 29 | Ruskin argued that art must not exist for itself , but for its subject , nature — ‘ All Great Art is Praise ’ — and to express and enhance society , so that a worthless society could produce only worthless art , and vice versa . |
| 30 | The theory behind the stock editor approach was that one person ( or group of people ) working full time on the bookstock could achieve a more penetrating and unified approach , and that the stock editor could pay more detailed attention to such matters as checks on withdrawals , coverage of specialist reviews , and the perusal of lists of secondhand books . |