Example sentences of "could well [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could better illustrate the conservatism of official interests . |
| 2 | However , if one maiden is foolish or churlish enough to become upset by the sight of Fossegrim , he could well overturn the boat from spite . |
| 3 | Home shopping held its profits at £13m which could well reflect the use of provisions raised on the Freemans acquisition to meet a net 10 per cent staff reduction . |
| 4 | This could well explain the fact that the trend since 1970 towards deferring first births has largely been confined to women with more education ( see Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 6 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're now looking at standardising the whole thing and that could well involve the defrocking of Reverend Green . ’ |
| 8 | In this Presidential Election Year , Pam could well treat the campaign trail once again for her friend the President . |
| 9 | He could well land the opening three races with Royal Wonder , Pertemps Network and Huntworth , while Star 's Delight can make it two wins in as many days by taking the Rainford Conditional Jockeys Handicap Chase . |
| 10 | In order to achieve this they seem certain to continue to deny close analysis of their practices , for exposure could well generate the potential to contest the system by releasing knowledge to those the system was set up to control . |
| 11 | The influence of the Full Moon on Thursday makes you feel irritable — expressing this by losing your temper could well clear the air , and boost your morale . |
| 12 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 13 | The author 's stated intentions and blurb credentials — Guardian writer , PhD , founding member of a community centre for the unemployed in the northeast of England — could well influence the reading of Meridon , but at heart we have a popular blockbuster that breathes some life into its 18th-century setting , but whose worthy aims are submerged by the relentless conventions of a mass-market formula . |
| 14 | If they do not go into farming , there is real reason for gloom because it could well mean the end of the Scottish farming industry . |
| 15 | At all events the Treasury was opposed to new forms of central economic control ( or planning ) not least because they could well mean the loss of its own authority . |
| 16 | Michael Aldrich does not make this mistake in Videotex , Key to the Wired City This is a glossy paperback , with popular appeal , which could well form the basis of a case study for my own man/computer systems class next year . |
| 17 | A good , hard look at your software collection could well provide the answer — game after game casts men in the active , go-get-'em role and reduces women to a passive , decorative function . |
| 18 | As is already happening in electrochemical technology , the provision of product packages , backed by technical expertise and know-how , could well point the way to the future . |
| 19 | The etymology here could well indicate the contact during sleep between the living and the dead , in which case sleep may be regarded as a miniature death that takes a person away from the conscious life of the day . |
| 20 | The tribunal or court could well take the view that the business needs to reorganize or terminate practices or indeed to cut costs . |
| 21 | For this reason the Wash Barrage proposal could be particularly important , because money spent on this east coast project could well cause the start of an international controlled-environment industry . |
| 22 | They could well imagine the panic that would now ensue at Russian military headquarters once it was realised that all their previous secrets had been lost . |
| 23 | However , as I steered our motor dory into the tricky south landing with the tide pouring through jagged rocks , intermittently obscured by swell and sea tangle , I could well imagine the island 's isolation in winter and bad weather . |
| 24 | Some of them , however , maintain the fine choral tradition which has produced many church musicians and the recent admission of girls into those which were formerly all-male establishments could well encourage the development of careers for women in church music . |
| 25 | Indeed , her presence could well guarantee the safety of both princes . |
| 26 | Also , there are situations in which it could well save the day . |
| 27 | There were , of course , grounds for taking it ; they could well argue the impossibility of continuing to give their loyalty and service to a monarch who was creating a totally new situation by failing in her fundamental duty of ruling her people . |
| 28 | In fact , from the simplicity aspect alone it could well mark the beginning of the end for reel-to-reels around the small studio , but of course only time will tell … |
| 29 | But in fact what takes place this April could well mark the beginning of a whole new era or cycle for you , as once the Sun has entered Taurus on the 20th you will come to realise that what others are determined to acquire has no place in your long-term scheme . |
| 30 | Throw in the maturing spin of Neil Kendrick and James Boiling and The Oval could well have the recipe to end the famine . |