Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 2 | SCOTTISH companies could choose to become major players in the £136 billion world market for green technologies , or risk being left behind in the race to win orders , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 3 | A US congressional delegation said on Sept. 8 , after meeting both Gamsakhurdia and opposition leaders , that Georgia had to improve its record on human rights before it could expect to receive international recognition . |
| 4 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |
| 5 | There was still little the West could do to free eastern Europe and peace treaties were made with Romania , Bulgaria and Hungary ( all former allies of Hitler ) in February 1947 which effectively left them at Stalin 's mercy . |
| 6 | While de Gaulle did not find it difficult to detect what was in the air , there was little that he could do to influence Allied planning directly . |
| 7 | The net result of Unix International 's latest Application Binary Interface effort may be the creation of a Unix ‘ brand ’ for operating systems that independent software vendors could use to develop common applications against . |
| 8 | Once you 've found a video sequence you could use to present specific language items , you then have to decide when you will introduce it in your teaching of a unit . |
| 9 | It is understood that the Attorney General , Harry Whelehan , advised that the amnesty could work to undermine public confidence in the equity of the tax system . |
| 10 | A global budget , or even a more flexible expenditure target , could begin to slow total system costs . |
| 11 | by joining with the skilled workers in agreements linking wages and prices , employers could hope to regulate competitive wage cutting amongst themselves in recession and end costly stoppages as the workers recouped these losses in booms . |
| 12 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 13 | During a transitional period , which ended in 1987 , accountants holding recognised auditing qualifications from any EC country could apply to become qualified auditors ( reviseurs d'entreprises ) in Luxembourg without being required to pass any supplementary examinations in Luxembourg . |
| 14 | There are potential pitfalls , the association may become dominated by an unrepresentative majority that could attempt to bring undue pressure on school policies . |
| 15 | National councils were an obvious forum in which churchmen could attempt to secure lay assent to their wishes , and this can seldom have seemed more desirable than in the years around 1000 . |
| 16 | Subsequently only the latter could pay to have complicated machinery repaired . |
| 17 | They worked out that they could pay to modify existing trucks by the clay saved within 14 months . |
| 18 | The risk is that this could tend to accentuate institutional complacency . |
| 19 | ‘ They have no desire to investigate this matter properly because it could prove to have serious ramifications for a number of political parties and senior individuals , ’ he claimed . |
| 20 | None-the-less the battle ultimately favoured Grom who could afford to lose vast numbers of troops without affecting his horde 's strength . |
| 21 | Although they could afford to pay real money for USL , they were well aware that it was losing money and AT&T was highly motivated to make the sale . |
| 22 | Only a few could afford to make regular appearances . |
| 23 | The ubiquity of the Jewish theme in his public addresses at this time makes it impossible to imagine that early converts to Nazism could fail to regard violent anti-Semitism as a leading feature of Hitler 's image . |
| 24 | The government now denied that it was granted the terms it received under the Large Combustion Plant Directive on the basis that it would be fitting FGD so it could continue to burn high-sulphur coal . |
| 25 | If inquiries , or some of them , were to be viewed in this light then the courts could help to devise procedural rules to fit this type of decision-making . |
| 26 | Laser light can not interact directly with the atomic nucleus , but experiments with lasers are revealing details of nuclear size and shape and could help to solve key problems in nuclear physics |