Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could 've done corned beef hash , could 've done some |
| 2 | otherwise , as you say , I could 've gone straight past here . |
| 3 | You could 've used you could 've used Little Doris |
| 4 | I 'm , I 'm going to have to cut you off , cos we 're running out of time , but I very much take the point you 're making , that it could 've had this trade effect on us , just in the last ten seconds Professor Hoskin , is it possible to predict what 's going to happen in the Soviet Union over the next six months , is it gon na be for good , or , or , . |
| 5 | Administrators have been given greater access to confidential documents , which could facilitate taking legal action against auditors and other advisers . |
| 6 | You could consider making internal windows or openings in a dividing wall to get more light and airiness . |
| 7 | These services could include prescribing certain medications and the referral of patients to medical specialists . |
| 8 | The House of Lords held that the plaintiff 's relationship with the committee conferred on him private law rights to remuneration in accordance with his statutory terms of service : that a litigant possessed of a private law right could seek to enforce that right by ordinary action notwithstanding that the proceedings would involve a challenge to a public law decision ; and that accordingly the action brought by the plaintiff in the Queen 's Bench Division did not constitute an abuse of process . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the LEF-1 binding site could functionally substitute for the bacterial DNA-bending protein integration host factor ( IHF ) , suggesting that the HMG box moiety could act to create higher order nucleoprotein structures by bringing together widely spaced binding sites . |
| 10 | The development of neutralist tendencies in Asia , along the lines of Malaysian policy , could act to nullify any defence component of regional organisations such as ASEAN and in the medium term reduce their resistance to the Soviet collective security scheme . |
| 11 | He also assured the committee that he was a judge of moderate instincts whom they could trust to approach all issues with an open mind , and who was able to understand and sympathise with the tribulations of his fellow US citizens . |
| 12 | The possible developments that the trust could achieve include more emphasis on research , on training and education , on challenging behaviour , and on autism and brain damage . |
| 13 | Secondly , the discussion on why the schools were needed and what they could achieve reveals significant features of both the age and the class relationships . |
| 14 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 15 | SCOTTISH companies could choose to become major players in the £136 billion world market for green technologies , or risk being left behind in the race to win orders , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 16 | A US congressional delegation said on Sept. 8 , after meeting both Gamsakhurdia and opposition leaders , that Georgia had to improve its record on human rights before it could expect to receive international recognition . |
| 17 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |
| 18 | In rural districts and in manufacturing towns charity schools could expect to make little progress against the competition of child employment and complaints of this came repeatedly from clothing and mining districts . |
| 19 | In both blue-collar and white-collar employment , the long-predicted world in which nobody could expect to have one job for a lifetime has now arrived . |
| 20 | ALL THE PRESIDENT 'S TAXMEN On the campaign trail , the next US president promised that high earners could expect to pay more tax — and foreign-owned companies much , much more — if he won the election . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Blake , ’ she called , ‘ I 'm sure you 're needed elsewhere — ’ but even before she could finish speaking another glass crashed off a table , and Charity , still doing battle with her skirt , went to pick up the fragments . |
| 22 | Without substantially re-thinking their politics , there was little they could do to resist these forces . |
| 23 | There was still little the West could do to free eastern Europe and peace treaties were made with Romania , Bulgaria and Hungary ( all former allies of Hitler ) in February 1947 which effectively left them at Stalin 's mercy . |
| 24 | While de Gaulle did not find it difficult to detect what was in the air , there was little that he could do to influence Allied planning directly . |
| 25 | That , surely , is the least that the right hon. Gentleman could do to inject some justice and fairness into the lives of our pensioners . |
| 26 | What major differences do you have , as a couple , that you could see causing real problems in marriage ? |
| 27 | Since we now have three different measures for the value of a country 's total output , we also have three different names which we could use to describe that output . |
| 28 | The net result of Unix International 's latest Application Binary Interface effort may be the creation of a Unix ‘ brand ’ for operating systems that independent software vendors could use to develop common applications against . |
| 29 | Once you 've found a video sequence you could use to present specific language items , you then have to decide when you will introduce it in your teaching of a unit . |
| 30 | It is understood that the Attorney General , Harry Whelehan , advised that the amnesty could work to undermine public confidence in the equity of the tax system . |