Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 2 | In May , 1992 , the regional health authority informed Riverside Health Authority ( the district health authority ) that the unit 's transfer was being reconsidered and it could only commit capital to the unit if the case load was increased and if the unit could withstand a reduction of charitable funding . |
| 3 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 4 | Dunbar could scarcely take exception to that , and changed the subject . |
| 5 | these would soon be extinct if zoos could not offer protection to animals in the same situation . |
| 6 | ‘ With a very great number of credit grantors not being members of any trade association and others being members of more than one , such a system could not give rise to a fair method of raising a levy . |
| 7 | Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " . |
| 8 | Manjiku was the creature who wanted to be a woman ; the beast that stole children for his own because he could not give birth to them himself . |
| 9 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 10 | Mr Vernon admitted that he could not do justice to all the fund raising efforts of the year , but would nonetheless like to congratulate the organisers of the four local appeals in Lincolnshire , Filey , the Mersey area and Derbyshire who all reached and surpassed their targets in 1990 . |
| 11 | The issue , an ongoing source of tension , had been aggravated by remarks in July by Demiral on the eve of the inauguration of the Ataturk dam on July 25 , to the effect that Iraq and Syria could not lay claim to the water Turkey drew from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers . |
| 12 | I explained to the man that I could not carry cheese to my appointment but that I would be back another day . |
| 13 | surveyor could not gain access to roof voids but concluded was in reasonable condition for its age . |
| 14 | The members of the commission could not gain entry to north Korea and could not observe the nature of elections there . |
| 15 | Thus the car did not belong to the customer who therefore could not transfer ownership to X. |
| 16 | Ferkhan also owned land near the village and complained that lack of electricity meant that he could not pump water to his field and , as a result , he had grown only twenty tons of melons compared to eighty before the war … |
| 17 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 18 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 19 | If even one base pair change in DNA can profoundly affect the body , the inclusion of a whole length of foreign genetic material among our own genes could easily give rise to metabolic imbalances and disturbances . |
| 20 | Such an agreement could easily give rise to the inference that they intended the passing of property to be similarly postponed ( see Underwood v. Burgh Castle Brick & cement Syndicate , above ) . |
| 21 | In 1974 , Anthony Wigram founded Conservative Action for Electoral Reform and urged the adoption of proportional representation because " the present electoral system could easily give power to a Socialist Party controlled by an extreme left wing group . " . |
| 22 | This would give double the required output voltage which could easily cause damage to the power supply components and beyond . |
| 23 | The importance of Leigh is that the court was prepared to treat the " open justice " principle as a rule of law which could be asserted by a journalist against a discretionary policy , rather than as a desirable state of affairs which could nonetheless give way to judicial convenience . |
| 24 | No one could possibly take exception to this Mathis infant . |
| 25 | Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied . |
| 26 | The shortfall in Northern Ireland of no more than four members could hardly give rise to serious objection . |
| 27 | In so doing he could still ensure loyalty to the Merovingian dynasty , even if not to the individual king . |
| 28 | Newspapers printed a photograph of a letter to a flood-control committee bearing Mr Li 's signature , so it was assumed that he could still put pen to paper . |
| 29 | An emperor could also delegate authority to his officials through the medium of jade symbols . |
| 30 | The research could also provide help to companies who want to introduce microcomputers in similar situations to BTR Farington . |