Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrasted in this way it seems improbable that madness and creativity could spring from the same source . |
| 2 | Well , you could stay in the spare room over with me , out in the bedroom in the back there , for thirty dollars a night ? ’ |
| 3 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 4 | ARABS are deeply worried that Bill Clinton 's victory could slow down the Middle East peace process and undermine a cosy relationship developed with the Bush administration . |
| 5 | The Collector had posted all the men he could spare on the upper , north-facing verandah . |
| 6 | Uniscan could persist throughout the 1950s without much difficulty since it in no way threatened national independence . |
| 7 | During the process the bronze was bathed in a solution of zinc salts and , unless it was carefully washed afterwards , some of these zinc salts could persist in the remaining patina on the surface . |
| 8 | When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup . |
| 9 | Some institutional arrangement other than large-numbers competition needs to be found to safeguard the transaction from excessive opportunistic wrangling , which could siphon off the available gains from trade . |
| 10 | A radical pluralism could build on the common ground emerging between these two traditions . |
| 11 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 12 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 13 | Praxsys could deliver in the fourth quarter : early 1993 is more likely . |
| 14 | But nothing could compare with the two universal sex-symbols of the decade , Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot . |
| 15 | Nothing , however , could compare with the wholesale carnage committed by men among the short-tailed , or sooty , petrel , known to the sealers as the mutton bird . |
| 16 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 17 | They were received in one of the general 's famous caravans , and Stirling outlined the contribution his unit could make to the coming battle . |
| 18 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 19 | It could evolve as the necessary cost of processes beneficial to youth , or could instead be purely maladaptive , and evolve because of the pressure of deleterious mutations on populations . |
| 20 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 21 | A second difficulty could arise from the Labour Party rule ( again dating from 1981 ) that a Leader in office as Prime Minister can be challenged for the Leadership at a Party conference if an election is requested by a majority of the conference on a card vote . |
| 22 | The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs . |
| 23 | So the parable envisages a situation that could arise in the early Church and advises that human judgment makes mistakes . |
| 24 | We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system . |
| 25 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 26 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 27 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 28 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 29 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 30 | One of the potentially most significant developments in the period of glasnost and perestroika was the setting up of a constitutional review committee which could comment on the constitutional legality of legislation passed by the Congress of People 's Deputies or the Supreme Soviet and decrees issued by the President . |