Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 2 | The Sun claims that the Stonebridge council estate in north London ‘ is Britain 's tinderbox where Los Angeles-style riots could explode at any time ’ . |
| 3 | One of Brazil 's biggest industrial areas has become an environmental time-bomb which could explode at any time . |
| 4 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 5 | No doubt you could do with some time to reflect on things . ’ |
| 6 | It clearly was n't something that the patrol section could do at that time . |
| 7 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 8 | Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership . |
| 9 | She wrote eighteen more novels , none of them distinguished or now read , enabling her to live alone in relative comfort for sixty years and to give her only son the best upper-class education that her country could provide at that time . |
| 10 | The pipeline from Petrobras passes beneath the houses ; an explosion could occur at any time . |
| 11 | St. Leonard 's Street , Sheepmarket and Broad Street were notorious arenas for these events which could occur at any time through the winter months . |
| 12 | She breathes her lament into the earth filling her mouth , saying over and over , for the habit of power has made her take the past on her shoulders , ‘ If I could return to that time , I would no longer change men into beasts as I did , and then find myself unable to change them back into men . ’ |
| 13 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |
| 14 | Doctors had warned that Daniel , five , of Sinfin , Derby , could die at any time . |
| 15 | Doctors had warned that Daniel , five , of Sinfin , Derby , could die at any time . |
| 16 | There is no tidal limitation and a lifeboat could respond at any time day or night . |
| 17 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 18 | AGLOBAL aviation security network is needed urgently to prevent another Lockerbie disaster , which could happen at any time , an expert on international terrorism warned yesterday . |
| 19 | Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time . |
| 20 | Anything could happen at any time . |
| 21 | He told members to get ready for an election which could happen at any time . |
| 22 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 23 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 24 | Could go in some time or other . |
| 25 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 26 | He was only a voluntary patient , he supposed , and could leave at any time . |
| 27 | The student could leave at any time he wished and take up unqualified practice , usually permanently , but sometimes temporarily . |
| 28 | An election could come at any time , and policies across the board were being honed in readiness . |
| 29 | Perhaps I could suggest her getting someone in to look after him and she could come for half time . |
| 30 | Searching through her mind the only emotions she could recreate from that time were a dizzying pleasure that someone as sophisticated , cosmopolitan , successful and confident as Doctor Anthony Gillingham should appear to want anyone as dull and provincial as she had been and a kind of a triumph that she could present Comfort with Anthony 's declaration of love . |