Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , because of the seasonal variation , it can provide a lot of your hot water in the summer , but not very much in the winter and over a year , with a rooftop solar panel installation , you could perhaps expect to heat half your hot water by solar energy . |
| 2 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 3 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 4 | While motives may have been broadly consistent and widely shared , progress was in fact often erratic and haphazard , disagreements were many and the early Meiji leaders could scarcely have foreseen some of the longer term consequences of their policies . |
| 5 | Even the most enterprising squirrel could scarcely have done that . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Robert could scarcely have anticipated this contingency , sir , ’ ventured his lordship 's agent . |
| 7 | The Soviet Union could soon choose to follow these precedents . |
| 8 | Also , can he confirm that a separatist , socialist , nationalist Scotland could not expect to enjoy all those oil revenues ? |
| 9 | Most of them were used to paying regular visits to the friendly neighbourhood pawnbroker , but on the objects they brought to him they could not expect to raise any great sums . |
| 10 | One great comber filled the canoe before she shook free from the cascading crests ; now they could not expect to make much headway and had to fight even harder to avoid broaching-to . |
| 11 | Even with the optimism of the participants they could not expect to solve such a problem in four days . |
| 12 | there were pressures coming on the company which would mean that we could not continue to do that |
| 13 | One could not fail to understand that . |
| 14 | His thought , undoubtedly , was that while he could not hope to control those two strong women , the Shah himself was more pliable . |
| 15 | There are many ways in which these emotional drives can be channelled , and I could not hope to name more than a few of them . |
| 16 | Eventually the experience might have to be repeated , in her own defence , but she could not hope to find much more in it than she had found in this first venture . |
| 17 | Without the organization and membership of the three parties to the Unity Agreement , the Campaign could not hope to make any more impression than previous actions of the same sort . |
| 18 | Beth could not bear to witness such humiliation , and so she averted her gaze and returned to her work . |
| 19 | This is the Marmeladov who married his present wife — not that that did any good either — because he could not bear to see such suffering . |
| 20 | Even after such a long absence from home , Leopold could not bear to waste any opportunity of showing off his brilliant children , so , instead of going straight back to Salzburg , they took a tortuous route through Dijon , Lyons , Switzerland , Donaueschingen and Augsburg to Munich , where Leopold even contemplated extending the trip to Italy . |
| 21 | I could not bear to touch that part of the body . |
| 22 | Their mouths were mere swollen wounds which they could not bear to stretch enough to admit the spout of the teapot . |
| 23 | She could not bear to feel such a stranger , so alien , and somehow so insecure in her own personality , as if she found herself hard to recognise in these new surroundings . |
| 24 | Despite strenuous effects to commit resources to services for people with learning disabilities , Nottinghamshire social services department could not avoid making this policy decision — a decision which was sorely tested . |
| 25 | Jean-Claude was telling Otto that Ahmed could not imagine loving another woman . |
| 26 | As she worked she could not help contrasting this cheerless room with her own spare room where — had it not been impossible , she told herself quickly — John might now be lying . |
| 27 | He could not risk having such highly dangerous spares in circulation . |
| 28 | Rachaela could not recall coming this way in the past , but she must have done , for she had surely explored all the house . |
| 29 | He could not remember noticing any of this before . |
| 30 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |