Example sentences of "could [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they could make a new life there together . |
| 2 | One day at rehearsal , to cheer up Dame Edith , the producers gave her £1,000 to go to Hardy Amies so that he could design a new wardrobe for her . |
| 3 | And , of course , time spent in Paris meant that he could buy a new wardrobe , visit his mother and put flowers on his uncle 's grave . |
| 4 | A tenant could insert a new name in his lease upon payment of another entry fine , and he had the power to sub-let all or any part of his property if he wished . |
| 5 | Exhibitions such as these could bring a new visibility to Greek and Roman art at the Met . |
| 6 | Therefore , as Ernest Tuveson points out in Imagination as a Means of Grace : ‘ From the nature of mind as described by Locke we could expect a new poetry to be highly visual in nature , for the faculty of sight came to monopolize the analysis of intellectual activity . ’ |
| 7 | What this means is that good old fashioned self-reliance could become a new health vogue of the Nineties . |
| 8 | ‘ He obviously enjoys being involved in something which could mark a new stage in his career . |
| 9 | Parker says unequivocally that the future of the mainframe lies with Open Edition MVS , but he says that we could see a new generation of mainframe-class systems based on multiple RISC processors , again based on a similar idea to the SP-1 and that this will be the natural place for AIX . |
| 10 | A showpiece Glass City to celebrate the city 's links with the glass-making industry and a 40,000 seater stadium , which could provide a new home for the football club , are included in the scheme . |
| 11 | The revived investigation about the circumstances of the 1988 shootings of Danny McCann , Mairead Farrell and Sean Savage could provide a new propaganda weapon for republican sympathisers . |
| 12 | We decided not to kill them ; they could begin a new life on the island . |
| 13 | But there remained too many blocks to opportunity after schooling , and prejudice about the age at which people could begin a new career . |
| 14 | The availability of a period pub , particularly one representing the highly popular 1930s , could create a new market where none existed before . |
| 15 | It would be pleasant to think that , with the stroke of an earth mover , we could create a new world . |
| 16 | Campbell 's move to Glentoran 's biggest rivals could create a new record fee between Irish League clubs — and a little bit of history . |
| 17 | No landowner — not even the king — could create a new town if people did not want it . |
| 18 | BLINK at the wrong moment on Christmas Eve and you could miss a new world record being set . |
| 19 | President Mubarak of Egypt warned that the continued emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel , could spark a new war in the Middle East . |
| 20 | The Organisation of American States called the action ‘ a threat to democracy in Latin America ’ , fearing it could spark a new round of dictatorial governments . |
| 21 | Maybe I could have a new dress . |
| 22 | From next year your agrochemical salesman or adviser could have a new set of professional letters after his name . |
| 23 | It is easy to see how fertility has been kept low since the middle of the twentieth century , and how the control over its timing given by contraception could permit a new pattern of fertility fluctuation . |
| 24 | . And I could join a new image club if I wanted to . |
| 25 | Denis returned to his seat , but before he could frame a new approach Josh Cohen started to drum his fingers on the tea-chest , looking about him and nodding his head in a calculating manner . |
| 26 | During a visit to Manila last week , Dan Quayle , the US Vice-President , expressed confidence that Manila and Washington could reach a new agreement . |
| 27 | In the sixties , fashion was such that a girl or a fella could afford a new Biba dress or John Stephen shirt every other week , they cost 35s 9d and who cared if they fell apart at the launderette . |
| 28 | Wish I could afford a new car , I 'd love a nice new car ! |
| 29 | I was hoping that P & I 's would be having a sale and that I could get a new concordance but she would n't even let me look . |
| 30 | You could get a new player , someone could retire , or one of your players could have his skill increased/decreased . |