Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 , . |
| 4 | Administrators have been given greater access to confidential documents , which could facilitate taking legal action against auditors and other advisers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That , surely , is the least that the right hon. Gentleman could do to inject some justice and fairness into the lives of our pensioners . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Serbia and Montenegro proposed an amendment to permit not only republics but also " nations " to remain within Yugoslavia , a formula under which Serbs in Croatia could elect to join this entity . |
| 21 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 22 | A global budget , or even a more flexible expenditure target , could begin to slow total system costs . |
| 23 | The level of provisions could begin to drop next year as fewer families fall behind in their home loan payments . |
| 24 | by joining with the skilled workers in agreements linking wages and prices , employers could hope to regulate competitive wage cutting amongst themselves in recession and end costly stoppages as the workers recouped these losses in booms . |
| 25 | This means you could fit bus-mastering hard disk controller and network interface cards to improve data throughput — the name of the game in networking . |
| 26 | Yet the real conflict occurs within the individual , who could decide to spend less lime on self and more with the family . |
| 27 | Walker , however , could try to peak this summer for the steeplechase or the 5,000 metres . |
| 28 | One could try to reject this conclusion on the grounds that for many French sentences there does seem to be a determinately right translation into English . |
| 29 | You could try blocking all daylight except when viewing or have a trickle feed from the mains tap so that it flushes continuously or just use lots of elbow grease . |
| 30 | Mr. McAllion : Perhaps , through my Hon. Friend , I could try to obtain some sympathy . |