Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Such a mechanism could enhance our national ability to compete with other world class research communities . |
| 3 | The decision is made harder by the knowledge that almost all terminally ill patients are receiving medication and may be suffering pain and distress , all of which could affect their mental competence , quite apart from some doctors ' reluctance to ‘ give up . ’ |
| 4 | That he could affect her this way was deeply shocking . |
| 5 | ‘ My surgeon says further surgery would be morally wrong as it could affect my future health but I had to make an effort to get back after the England tour went wrong . |
| 6 | It was the premium put upon child labour within the domestic family economy of textile manufacture which provides the context for Defoe 's observations of around 1720 on Norfolk that " the very children after four or five years of age , could earn their own bread " , while at Taunton " there was not a child in the town , or in the villages round it , of above five years old , but , if it was not neglected by its parents , and untaught , could earn its own bread " . |
| 7 | The overseers of the poor could board out orphans , and then apprentice them until they could earn their own living . |
| 8 | It was the premium put upon child labour within the domestic family economy of textile manufacture which provides the context for Defoe 's observations of around 1720 on Norfolk that " the very children after four or five years of age , could earn their own bread " , while at Taunton " there was not a child in the town , or in the villages round it , of above five years old , but , if it was not neglected by its parents , and untaught , could earn its own bread " . |
| 9 | You could earn your living sailing nowadays . |
| 10 | As is still the case , students at some universities in the early 1970s could build their own pattern of course units in ways which tended to displace the historical chronology of literature associated with " English Language and Literature " . |
| 11 | He could build his own Government with few debts or commitments . |
| 12 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
| 13 | I 'd be much happier with that because , as local people , we could influence our local Government at the ballot box . |
| 14 | Perhaps you could answer me another question — name one band that tells people they should be gay . |
| 15 | At times she believed she could make her hard man into a piece of putty , but not when he spoke of duty . |
| 16 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 17 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 18 | From the very beginning of her own spectacular career , therefore , even before her own personality could make its distinctive mark , she was a person to create doubts , and even fear . |
| 19 | By showing how every soul could make its own way to God , without the mediation of priests or ministers of the educated classes , it helped to give a sense of dignity and individual worth to thousands who were turned off their land by enclosures and absorbed by the Dark Satanic Mills of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 20 | He put his other arm round her waist and she thought wildly that it could make its own way there by now . |
| 21 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 22 | If he , Paul Arkwright , could make his own name again in this way it might lead to even better things than a University chair . |
| 23 | Altogether Baldwin , like most Prime Ministers who succeed a member of their own party during a Parliament , felt that he would be happier and stronger if he could make his own Cabinet afresh , and yet was inhibited from so doing . |
| 24 | For those who sought symbols in inanimate objects its message was both simple and expedient , that man , by his own intelligence and his own efforts , could understand and master his world , could make his transitory life more agreeable , more comfortable , more free of pain . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you realise you probably have information which , if offered to the right people , could make you one hell of a lot of money ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If we practise this around the Island , ’ Dixie says , ‘ we could make our own movie . |
| 27 | Said he 'd bailed me out once and he would n't do so again , I could make my own way . |
| 28 | Perhaps now I could make my own bread ! |
| 29 | As the trial was a comparison of two systems of care the prompted care group subjects could be referred through the system to hospital outpatients , while the hospital clinic group patients could consult their general practitioner for diabetes related reasons . |
| 30 | Huge hairy warts were stuck on her face and the make-up artists asked if they could cover her facial hair in mascara , giving her an instant moustache . |