Example sentences of "could [verb] an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went by the title of ‘ The Proprietors of the Invention for raising Water by Fire ’ , and no one could build an engine without their licence . |
| 2 | In the meantime , I became friendly with a neighbour , Derek Mills , and his wife Val , who said I could build an aviary on their land . |
| 3 | court could make an order for wasted costs against counsel . |
| 4 | If the Court of Session could make an order of the same nature , it was better to resort to its jurisdiction ; if it would not make such an order , the English court would hesitate the more before seeking to make an order to be effective in Scotland . |
| 5 | This position must be based on whether there is evidence on which a court could make an Order in Care Proceedings . |
| 6 | There must be some way she could make an approach without incurring too great a risk of rejection . |
| 7 | A second suggestion made by the guardian ad litem is that he should be re-appointed on the question of contact between the child and the mother , and that the court should adjourn that question so that there would be a continuing issue relating to contact and the guardian ad litem could make an application for contact to be brought to an end if he felt that the rehabilitation process was failing . |
| 8 | The DHAC had proved that new and imaginative methods of protest could make an impact on the Unionist administration at the Guildhall , but for most opponents of the Unionist Party in Derry this was a reason for achieving a greater degree of anti-Unionist unity in order to press home their advantage , not to become equally hostile to the Nationalist Party . |
| 9 | GOVERNMENT spending cuts in the fight against AIDS and complacency over the risk to the general public could make an epidemic among heterosexuals more likely , a leading expert warned yesterday . |
| 10 | ’ No , but she could make an effort to be civil . ’ |
| 11 | Success could raise a man from comparative insignificance to wealth and fame , but capture could cripple an estate with the burden of payment . |
| 12 | I also admired the way he could peel an apple with the skin in one piece , coiled like a spring . |
| 13 | Berger then decided to wait until the scheduled pit stops in the hope that the Ferrari crew could steal an advantage over the McLaren mechanics . |
| 14 | Under it , ‘ any interested person ’ could seek an order of U.S. District Court that any person within its district should produce documents for use in the foreign proceedings . |
| 15 | When making the care order , the justices , concerned about the divergent views regarding the proposed rehabilitation plan but having decided not to make an order that there be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Children Act 1989 made a direction that the guardian ad litem 's involvement should be allowed to continue in order to investigate the progress of the rehabilitation so that , if appropriate , the child could seek an order for contact to be terminated . |
| 16 | Pointing to the vote in the Strasbourg parliament last week which backed PR by 207 votes to 79 , Mr Martin commented : ‘ Whilst I 'm sceptical that the Government will yield to full PR for the 1994 elections , they could introduce an element of PR by using the six new seats in this way . |
| 17 | Parliament itself could substitute an act for an earlier one . |
| 18 | Section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1843 ( 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73 ) provided that no solicitor could commence an action for fees until one month after he delivered to his client a bill of fees . |
| 19 | We could install an Apple-MAC for graphic work , together with an Amstrad and other machines for file conversion and transfer to DTP . |
| 20 | ‘ The minute I walked into the room I could sense an atmosphere of intimacy between you . |
| 21 | Before Charles could give an order to his platoon , in which he could identify himself with them in such a disagreeable manoeuvre , the new Company Commander continued to pursue the military solecism of humiliating an officer in front of his own command . |
| 22 | One also knows about its possible colours , texture of fur , the noises it makes , and could give an estimate of its size and weight . |
| 23 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 24 | That left the companies ; yet the first of them was in the hands of the receiver , who could bring an action by virtue of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( section 42 and also para 5 of Schedule 1 ) . |
| 25 | If a member State of the European Communities concluded an agreement infringing an obligation under the Treaty of Rome , another member State could bring an action before the European Court of Justice . |
| 26 | [ In ] instances when Soviet planners have stipulated a revised set of leading economic indicators , and tied incentive funds to them , other indicators have moved in undesirable directions … planners found that , once again , only direct regulation could bring an improvement for any individual economic indicator . |
| 27 | The Arab Theatre was a barn-like building which on its better days could seat an audience of two hundred . |
| 28 | The poor fellow could not accept and believe that a person with active flying experience , slight as it may have been , could land an aircraft in a relatively confined space . |
| 29 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 30 | He also suggests that the Japanese dominate the market partly because of their domestic need for a communications system which could accommodate an alphabet of some 2,000 characters . |