Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 2 | ‘ You could stay with the Ballards ; Zelah would love that . ’ |
| 3 | He had not been able to deal so skilfully with his own wife , however , that relationship needing more of himself than he could spare from the animals , and she had left him many years ago . |
| 4 | My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House . |
| 5 | While , understandably , this mild recommendation was all they could make in the circumstances , there is no disguising the fact that , for the next five years at least , non-advanced further education in Wales badly needs the infusion of more resources . |
| 6 | And at the end of the day quite considerable potential changes could arise from the results that you might deduce . |
| 7 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 8 | We could picnic on the grounds of the Villa Borghese . ’ |
| 9 | She could think of no words to break the agonising tension . |
| 10 | But perhaps he could think of no words bad enough because he began to cry instead , loud , gasping sobs , eyes wide and streaming . |
| 11 | We could think of the extremes of its swing to be called states A and B. We can see that the pendulum is not stable in either of these states . |
| 12 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 13 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 14 | It was hard to believe that very soon that innocent sky could throb with the sounds of death . |
| 15 | She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated . |
| 16 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the authorities did not control the supply of all the eligible liquid assets which could count towards the banks ' liquidity ratio . |
| 18 | Or he could sell most of his land to Mr Big and his house and a few acres could fall into the hands of a merchant banker who wants somewhere quiet with a paddock for the daughter 's ponies . |
| 19 | He feared that the plutonium reclaimed at the plant from irradiated fuels could fall into the hands of terrorists and be used to make crude atom bombs . |
| 20 | ‘ The Met have now provided him with round-the-clock protection as they fear the filofax could fall into the hands of the IRA , ’ said the source . |
| 21 | Labour 's defence spokesman has expressed fears that a missile system being developed in the region could fall into the hands of Iraq . |
| 22 | " I wonder , " she said , " if a woman could fall into the ways and after a while it would n't bother her . |
| 23 | Perhaps because they were suddenly aware that Madrid could fall to the rebels at any moment , or perhaps because they felt more confident with a government which now included representatives of all the Popular Front forces and the anarchists , the Republican troops rallied at that point and managed to slow down the Army of Africa 's advance on the capital . |
| 24 | They believed success could win over the students and other intellectuals . |
| 25 | The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body . |
| 26 | People going out of the crush for a breather and intimate talk away from the throng could linger without the girls needing the pretty shawls they had brought out to cover their bare arms . |
| 27 | For example , if a person is being asked about her educational background one interviewer could encourage her to talk about the criticisms she could offer of it , while another interviewer could concentrate on the benefits she received from it . |
| 28 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 29 | " I could speak to the nuns . " |
| 30 | If she was good , maybe ‘ soon ’ would be sooner still and she could dance in the meanings … . |