Example sentences of "could [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resolution included a guarantee of rights and liberties to all residents of Latvia in accordance with international norms of human rights , and stated that after independence residents could choose to remain in the republic either as USSR or Latvian citizens . |
| 2 | Diana could choose to stay within the Royal Family and be allowed a greater measure of freedom . |
| 3 | Firms could choose to operate under the new statute or retain their existing national corporate existence . |
| 4 | If you started from the insect , and jumped like a demented flea half a trillion times , you could expect to arrive at the fox once . |
| 5 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 6 | Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ? |
| 7 | Further , it identified three main ways in which coordinators could expect to contribute to the school 's teaching programme : |
| 8 | In fact , as the press release says , ‘ almost every rock climbing feature you could expect to find in the mountain environment . ’ |
| 9 | THE ONLY automobile that you could use to compete in the East African Safari or at Le Mans , drive to the theatre or thread through New York city traffic ’ . |
| 10 | Once the only route that Allied personnel could use to travel into the Soviet Sector , with the dismantling of the wall it is now redundant |
| 11 | The first and last of these were both Welsh , ( 112 , pp.151 , 161–3 ) and it is likely that the element of tribal loyalty was one factor which they could employ to help in the exercise of their authority . |
| 12 | If this is how the young child construes what is happening , it could begin to account for the response that four-year-olds typically give . |
| 13 | No one could begin to agree on the answer . |
| 14 | His personal rapport with Kennedy was one asset , but in addition , as on previous occasions , he could hope to play on the contradictions in American policy , and exploit the fact that Kennedy himself was by no means persuaded of the virtues of MLF . |
| 15 | No religion which contained vestiges of Judaic Messianic nationalism could hope to survive within the Roman imperium . |
| 16 | The partners could then decide to sell it and divide the cash or they could decide to continue to the next stage of association ( called al-nusf , ‘ halves ’ ) . |
| 17 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 18 | Answer guide : Here you would need the information contained in the projections which provide the profit target so that you could attempt to improve on the profit either by increasing sales , or adjusting the staffing of your outlet to reduce the costs and thereby increase the profit . |
| 19 | There will then be another round of letters , known as ‘ reasoned opinions ’ , after which , if no deal is struck , the matter could have to go to the European Court of Justice . |
| 20 | I remember this sign for when a small boy , I was puzzled as to what Tylees could have to do with the sea . |
| 21 | He was still wearing summer clothes and , once back in his room again , the only heat was regulated by how much a tenant could afford to put into the meter — and Freddie was abysmally short of cash . |
| 22 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 23 | They then show how these discriminatory procedures could come to function as the semantic anchoring of our lexicon . |
| 24 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 25 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 26 | She thinks she 'll be away for a week and I 've been wondering who I could get to look after the house . " |
| 27 | For example , you could offer to look after the children for the weekend while he takes a well-earned break . |
| 28 | All went fine , and we were very chuffed and thrilled , until the producer of the show started to say , ‘ Well , of course , you acted with belted raincoats and the berets and it 's all very sweet , but maybe we could start to take off the belted raincoat , and leave perhaps just the fishnet tights … . ’ |
| 29 | Make sure you air your grievances to your superiors or both your health and a special relationship could start to suffer under the pressure . |
| 30 | Every able-bodied man in Uig signed a petition asking that the parish should be disjoined from Lewis and added to Harris so that they could continue to benefit from the employment Lord Leverhulme offered . |