Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 2 | I could better bear disgrace in solitude , do n't you see ? ’ |
| 3 | It terrified her , that she could so lose control in the arms of this man who was everything she despised , who despised her , who wanted her for what he thought she was . |
| 4 | Such a scene could only take place in The Wedding Present 's dressing room . |
| 5 | Despite the growth of a local political consciousness nurtured in its coal-mines , the transfer of militancy from work to council chamber could only take place in Clay Cross once the mines had been nationalized and the culturally paternalistic influence of the local coal-owners had been removed . |
| 6 | At the time of the research , children could generally find employment in the area without leaving home . |
| 7 | Young men who could easily find work in the East Anglian villages during the peak periods of the farming year — haysel and corn harvest — were dismissed by farmers after the harvest , and often spent the whole winter hanging about without work and without any form of subsistence except the parish or the charity of their family . |
| 8 | He was n't even late for work , let alone under the influence of drink , so I could hardly suggest counselling in those circumstances . ’ |
| 9 | He could still play left-back in div1 at 34 . |
| 10 | Even after he had been summoned to the Holy Office in April 1633 , Galileo could still arouse sympathy in high places . |
| 11 | But he could always get work in good old BBC radio : that was his stamping ground . |
| 12 | It could conceivably trigger recession in other countries . |
| 13 | The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment , if conditions altered . |
| 14 | Male vigour in display could also indicate vigour in caring for the young . |
| 15 | Youngsters who had hitherto been isolated on farms and factories could now take part in informed discussion on a wide variety of subjects . |
| 16 | These activities could well take place in other areas , but the impression given in Team D was that this kind of informal or semi-formal engagement with vulnerable sections of the community , recorded only patchily , constituted a prominent part of the social work approach . |
| 17 | The professional development of future teachers could then take place in the classroom . |
| 18 | Old fair hands could doubtless see order in the chaos , the separate camps of the different families within the larger camp . |
| 19 | It has been argued that compression of the abdomen increases the ‘ pinchcock ’ effect of the angular incisura and so it is possible that this manoeuvre could actually prevent reflux in some patients . |
| 20 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |