Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend in the office of collector of supply could greatly speed up the processing of the claims of allies , while at the same time delaying the completion of the titles of opponents . |
| 2 | However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system . |
| 3 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 4 | From the 1760s , moreover , some of the British secretaries of embassy in Paris and Madrid were also accredited as minister plenipotentiary : they could thus carry on the business of the mission quite effectively in the absence of its head . |
| 5 | Ironically , the actions of a few Western governments , led by the United states and including Britain , could finally kill off the nodule-mining industry before it even begins to operate , and all in the name of protecting the industry . |
| 6 | Their widespread use could soon bring about the collapse of entire stocks of oceanic fish and cause lasting damage to marine ecosystems covering vast areas . |
| 7 | ‘ Thanks , but … if you could just print up the photos for me … ’ |
| 8 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 9 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 10 | If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack . |
| 11 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 12 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 13 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 14 | I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other . |
| 15 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 16 | As he gazed out , down the enormous length of the ship , he could just make out the dark outline against the lighter sea , and the rectangular shapes of the deck-covered containers . |
| 17 | In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face . |
| 18 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |
| 19 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 20 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 21 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 22 | The smoke enveloped the beast completely , and yet through the smoke , as they got very close , Little Billy could just make out the enormous black shadow of some hairy monster . |
| 23 | Behind us we could just make out the glimmer of lamplight from the tiny hotel on Lake Pehoe , where we should be dining on river trout , bife chorizo and good Chilean pinot noir before the night was out . |
| 24 | I could just make out the spot he indicated . |
| 25 | I took a few cautious steps forward to where , by craning , I could just make out the ghostly crescent of the beach opposite the pier . |
| 26 | Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table . |
| 27 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 28 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 29 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 30 | It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees . |