Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 2 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 3 | Secondly , the Act laid down procedures whereby individual schools could opt out of local authority control , acquiring grant maintained status , and receiving their funding directly from the DES ( see Chapter 4 : 1988 Education Reform Act ) . |
| 4 | He and his wife were badly shaken and decided to move out of Ulster so that their children could grow up under normal conditions . |
| 5 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 6 | Your correspondent could refer back to Northern Echo archives and CSE , but meanwhile he should let the Sydney Harbour Bridge remain as part of the history of the now defunct Dorman Long group and of Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 8 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 9 | Apparently the Internet could run out of available addresses by 1995 and the Internet Engineering Task Force is now looking at ways of overcoming address limitations in the current Internet Protocol version 4 standard . |
| 10 | Apparently the Internet could run out of available addresses by 1995 and the Internet Engineering Task Force is now looking at ways of overcoming address limitations in the current IP version 4 standard . |
| 11 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 12 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 13 | Thus we are told , for example , that in the late 1980s there are 10,000 Latin American students enrolled in Soviet universities compared with the 144 who were attending Patrice Lumumba in 1960 ; that in 1982 Latin Americans could tune in to Soviet radio broadcasting for 105 hours per week compared with only 63 in 1962 and that at least seventeen Soviet journals are now translated and distributed in Latin America , six of which also appear in Portuguese ( Blasier : 1983 , pp. 12–13 and pp. 191–2 ; Goldhamer : 1972 , p. 147 ) . |
| 14 | With the associated tax break , the promised returns could gross up into handsome rewards . |
| 15 | ‘ Darlington could miss out on foreign trade opportunities if it does n't begin an enlightened dialogue with these people . ’ |
| 16 | Hundreds of victims of crime could miss out on vital counselling , because of restrictions on the use of computer information . |
| 17 | Thus they could move on to running ‘ Quality as a Business ’ , and more recently ‘ Post Zero Defects ’ . |
| 18 | LABOUR 'S transport spokesman John Prescott could step in over British Rail 's plans to sell off a Darlington sports ground . |
| 19 | The railway station would now be seen as a significant strategic point to which Whites could withdraw to be rescued by train-borne troops and from which the forces could fan out into disaffected areas . |
| 20 | Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 . |
| 21 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 22 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 23 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 24 | Mike trying to cover up his unease about staying in so she could go out by patronising sarcasm . |
| 25 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |
| 26 | You could end up with brown patches that wo n't go away . |
| 27 | But because such funds ca n't be used for staff , education officials fear we could end up with smart new buildings and no teachers to put in them . |
| 28 | Thought they could stand up in full view in a club crammed with people , execute the man . |
| 29 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 30 | If you wanted to shorten the circuit you could press on to Black Sail Hut . |