Example sentences of "could [vb infin] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , Exminster could remain as the hospital for elderly mentally ill patients , allowing a planned closure of Digby Hospital after short-stay beds had been established in Torbay and North Devon . |
| 2 | For the purposes of this appeal , it is not necessary to take account of the implications which arise or could arise as a result of the possession order being set aside . |
| 3 | In contrast , a few people pointed out the disadvantages that could arise as a result of being disabled when interacting with patients or clients . |
| 4 | At its surface , water could exist as a liquid rather than as a gas , and so oceans and seas came into existence . |
| 5 | ( Much more worrying is that one of the nearby stars — notably Sirius or Procyon — could explode as a supernova , bathing our planet in sufficient hard radiation to extinguish all life . |
| 6 | The choice , for example , between " A stick rose upright " and " He raised his bow " is not something which Ohmann could regard as a matter of style . |
| 7 | I think what we 'll do , just start by writing up what we could describe as a sort of theoretical er , supply function . |
| 8 | Rhythmic changes in this neural activity could be the means by which an individual 's lifestyle could act as a time-cue for his body clock . |
| 9 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 10 | This could act as a bar and serving area as well . |
| 11 | The young academic coolly eyed the embattled farmer and , commenting upon the destruction wrought upon the fen , looked forward to its return to wilderness after the war , so that it could act as a buffer for the nature reserve of Wicken Fen against the farmed land : |
| 12 | The Brazilian Society of Community and General Doctors is seeking to address this situation and could act as a catalyst , advocate , and pressure group , as well as promoting good quality training , just as the Royal College of General Practitioners has done in this country . |
| 13 | Early opinion poll results suggested that the banking scandal , reinforcing public cynicism and hostility towards Congress , could act as a catalyst for the election defeat in November 1992 of a number of incumbent US legislators unprecedented in the modern era . |
| 14 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 15 | As a contemporary writer observed , Moscow had no interest in an ASEAN-sponsored neutralisation that could act as a smokescreen for continued US control and influence or create a vacuum from which the Soviet Union is excluded but China , because of its location and ambitions is not . |
| 16 | A rapid method of assaying samples was essential in order to discover which extracts were giving the best yields , and the sooner a stable crude preparation was obtained which could act as a standard , the better . |
| 17 | At most , third-party states , whether aligned with a superpower or non-aligned , could act as a brake on superpower action , though there is no strong evidence that they did so to much effect in the last 40 years . |
| 18 | Washington appeared to believe that Zahir Shah could act as a bridge between the mujahidin and the marxists in Kabul . |
| 19 | Protesters point out that an open sports ground on the waterfront could act as a refuge , and believe that the real impetus for the wetland 's destruction comes from an alliance of local politicians and construction companies . |
| 20 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 21 | In this sense it could act as a model for ‘ non-aligned naval support ’ for the USSR . |
| 22 | In each of these three cases only one animal at a time was sacred , chosen for its special markings , and it could act as an oracle for the god . |
| 23 | With or without more realistic salaries , opportunities for further training could act as an incentive to serious musicians . |
| 24 | But , given the paucity of alternatives , a wiser and more experienced Mr Kaifu ( supported by the Americans ) could survive as the compromise candidate . |
| 25 | And during the war , while the Party failed to increase its own popularity , Hitler could benefit as the focus of a widespread consensus between 1939 and 1941 among the vast majority of the population about the successful course of the war and the favourable prospects for an early and glorious peace . |
| 26 | Pigeon pests could bloom as an attraction |
| 27 | So we put it into this pot and we invest it in as many funds and spread the money out , so if , if one fund does n't produce very much in return , another fund will , and so we in fact , get a better spread throughout the market , than you could do as an individual . |
| 28 | But Hitler made world Christianity something that for a moment even people in the pews could see as an expression of peace , and amity , and human rights , and the moral law in politics . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm after a Brian Clough-style dynasty , which we could use as a base on which to build everything else . ’ |
| 30 | All these you could use as a face cre in a face cream . |