Example sentences of "could [vb infin] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of fuel problems each patrol could stay in the air no more than two hours , and only relatively slow and cumbersome two-seater planes could be used . |
| 2 | We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens , dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm . |
| 3 | He is ready , he says , to consider Syria 's ‘ vital interests ’ in Lebanon , and by that he appears to mean that its army could stay in the Beka'a Valley , provided it is clearly intended for defence against Israeli attack and not for interference in Lebanon 's internal affairs . |
| 4 | Oh , says I , aye , I says , you could stay in the village . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Mandeville called , ‘ I should be grateful if you could stay in the hall . |
| 6 | I could stay in the hotel , ’ I said . |
| 7 | I could stay in the house and be marked as frightened , or I could do battle with the elements , making my way to the family as usual . |
| 8 | ‘ Wow , ’ Wayne said , obviously wishing that he could stay in the front and eavesdrop . |
| 9 | Of course you could stay in an hotel ! |
| 10 | The answer is straightforward : the exchange-rate mechanism would continue , run by the enlarged chamber of governors , and all currencies that were not in stage three could remain in the exchange-rate mechanism or outside it , depending on what they chose . |
| 11 | Our playmates swam quietly to the edge of the pool , while Lorne and I began to climb out until signalled that we could remain in the water if we wished . |
| 12 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 13 | The compensation package offered is usually based on a local salary , which , when converted into sterling , is considerably higher than the workers could earn in the UK . |
| 14 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 15 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 16 | She saves Antonio 's life , is rich , beautiful , dutiful to her father — everything a man could want in a woman . |
| 17 | She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Axelrod and Hamilton point out that reciprocal altruism could evolve without the need for individual recognition in a sessile organism ; in principle , it could evolve in a plant . |
| 20 | By definition the gene must promote the reproductive success of the selfish organisms at a cost to itself but a gene for altruism could evolve in a population of selfish individuals a population of altruists , in whom a gene for selfishness appears by random mutation . |
| 21 | A structural appraisal of the building identified a number of potentially serious defects which could arise in the event of fire . |
| 22 | The chairman of an authority 's education committee could find himself chairing a board of management where serious conflict of interest could arise in the future . |
| 23 | Basically we are required to report anything erm , any liability which we know about , which does n't actually formally have to appear in the main accounts but which could arise in the future . |
| 24 | Then there are others who are satisfied with superficial information because they feel that if more is revealed then conflict could arise in the family . |
| 25 | All are agreed , however , that it is the nature of the ‘ matter ’ which is important , and it was recognised early in the history of the Hague Conventions on Civil Procedure that some civil or commercial matters could arise in the context of an administrative jurisdiction . |
| 26 | The criteria upon which the design of the tailplanes was based did not take into account the possibility that a substantial differential pressure could exist in the tail structure other than that caused by aerodynamic loads . |
| 27 | Nor in the light of experience and knowledge available prior to this accident would it have been reasonable to envisage that internal pressures could exist in the tail structure . ’ |
| 28 | Even the wealthy New York Jewish financiers , the Guggenheims , Kuhns , Sachs , Seligmanns and Lehmanns , who had all that money could buy in the United States , which was very nearly everything , were not yet Americans in the way in which the Wertheimsteins in Vienna considered themselves Austrian , the Bleichroeders in Berlin Prussians , even the international Rothschilds in London and Paris , English and French . |
| 29 | Most of the training shoe addicts would never dream of getting a pair you could buy in the city centre in Liverpool . |
| 30 | After they 'd used the phone , Yvonne said they could wait in the lounge . |