Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you could stay in the spare room over with me , out in the bedroom in the back there , for thirty dollars a night ? ’ |
| 2 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Collector had posted all the men he could spare on the upper , north-facing verandah . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A radical pluralism could build on the common ground emerging between these two traditions . |
| 9 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They were received in one of the general 's famous caravans , and Stirling outlined the contribution his unit could make to the coming battle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs . |
| 17 | So the parable envisages a situation that could arise in the early Church and advises that human judgment makes mistakes . |
| 18 | We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It 's about what 's happening in our everyday lives , down the street , round the corner , including , and especially including civic art and architecture which , above all , could relate to the real lives of the community . |
| 22 | No doubt , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you will wonder how rail transport could relate to the Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee . |
| 23 | Certainly Earth needs its Sun and moon , and neither could exist without the Milky Way first coming into being , and so on . |
| 24 | So we should not be dogmatic , and assume that the kind of life we have on Earth is the only kind that could exist in the entire Universe ; and ‘ living ’ clays may flourish elsewhere , perhaps even on Mars ( as suggested by Professor Hyman Hartman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . |
| 25 | This would mean that one could appeal to the weak anthropic principle , provided one could show that string theory does at least allow there to be such regions of the universe-and it seems that indeed string theory does . |
| 26 | An unsuccessful applicant could appeal to the regional committee . |
| 27 | In the present case , if the Court of Appeal had upheld the decision of Robertson J. on the first part , it would have been unfair to deny the respondents a right of appeal to the Privy Council on the compromise issue or the cancellation issue while accepting the petitioner could appeal to the Privy Council as of right if the petitioner failed on the misconduct issue . |
| 28 | A free man , on the other hand , could appeal in the public courts against any increase in the burdens imposed on him . |
| 29 | But that could wait until the following day . |
| 30 | It was a ‘ nativist ’ party resentful of the alien , and dangerous , ideas immigrants , especially Catholics , could introduce into the American bloodstream . |