Example sentences of "could [vb infin] at [adj] time " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | One of Brazil 's biggest industrial areas has become an environmental time-bomb which could explode at any time . |
| 4 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 5 | It clearly was n't something that the patrol section could do at that time . |
| 6 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The pipeline from Petrobras passes beneath the houses ; an explosion could occur at any time . |
| 10 | St. Leonard 's Street , Sheepmarket and Broad Street were notorious arenas for these events which could occur at any time through the winter months . |
| 11 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |
| 12 | Doctors had warned that Daniel , five , of Sinfin , Derby , could die at any time . |
| 13 | Doctors had warned that Daniel , five , of Sinfin , Derby , could die at any time . |
| 14 | There is no tidal limitation and a lifeboat could respond at any time day or night . |
| 15 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 16 | AGLOBAL aviation security network is needed urgently to prevent another Lockerbie disaster , which could happen at any time , an expert on international terrorism warned yesterday . |
| 17 | Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time . |
| 18 | Anything could happen at any time . |
| 19 | He told members to get ready for an election which could happen at any time . |
| 20 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 21 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 22 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 23 | He was only a voluntary patient , he supposed , and could leave at any time . |
| 24 | The student could leave at any time he wished and take up unqualified practice , usually permanently , but sometimes temporarily . |
| 25 | An election could come at any time , and policies across the board were being honed in readiness . |
| 26 | You could check at this time that there is actually a male present , as two females sometimes act out the spawning procedure , producing infertile eggs ; I have not seen this where males were available , so do not be too hasty to split up a pair , especially if you are not yet confident about sexing your Angels . |
| 27 | Consequently , without having to decide whether the right of registration is a retained power or whether the Community could legislate at any time in that field , it must be held that in exercising that competence the member states must comply with the general rules of the E.E.C . |
| 28 | Except for the Library , who could bath at any time , a boy was allocated two baths a week . |
| 29 | They could rip at any time . |