Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Wardens could supervise matters from the reasonable comfort of homes such as Ferniehirst outside Jedburgh ; but Hermitage castle , the ‘ Strength of Liddesdale ’ in the middle of inhospitable fells and mosses , was one of the most chill and sinister strongholds in all Scotland . |
| 2 | INDONESIA has blocked access to sex hotlines from Hong Kong after MPs said such telephone calls could damage morals in the mainly Muslim country , the state telecommunications company said today . |
| 3 | I could explain changes in the sovereign states as consequent upon the evolution and interaction of the world-system . |
| 4 | In this case , these were interpreted mainly as the high cost of land and premises , which could affect companies through the high housing and travel costs ( and therefore possibly wages ) for their workers ( pp. 74–8 ) , and the relative congestion and age of building in cities . |
| 5 | In 1906 the College became a school of the University of London , with recognised teachers and could prepare candidates for the university 's BSc ( Veterinary Science ) degree as well as carrying out its basic function of training candidates for the diploma of membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons . |
| 6 | As to suggestions that if the deal did not happen , it could throw doubts on the future of the bank , he said : ‘ I think that is not an unfair conclusion . ’ |
| 7 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 8 | As an alternative to payment under Deed of Covenant , Tradeco could make payments under the Gift Aid provisions of the Taxes Act . |
| 9 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |
| 10 | With Motif at large in the Sun community , IBM and DEC are confident they could make inroads into the Sun installed base swapping out Sun machines for their own . |
| 11 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 12 | Stray images wandered into her unfocussed mind : the glossy black heads of seals breaking the sea 's surface , the castle with knights riding out — She could make pictures of the Lock in her head again ! |
| 13 | Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value ; Charles had confirmed that a friendly relationship existed between the great kingdom of the Franks and Rome , and that a pope could make demands upon the Frankish king in full expectation of support and response — perhaps even of obedience . |
| 14 | Six seats would be allocated to Taylor , who was offered the post of Speaker and could make nominations for the cabinet . |
| 15 | They could repatriate profits at the official exchange rate and then reinvest them at favourable black-market rates that more than offset their tax liabilities . |
| 16 | You could research ideas on the history of marriage and interesting marriage customs both here and abroad . |
| 17 | The bank with surplus cash could buy CDs on the money market that had been issued by another bank . |
| 18 | Non-members could buy tickets on the door and the ticket money would be used to offset the cost of future concerts . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a phone in number for viewers to air their opinions and he called in and said he was furious about what had happened to this poor woman and wanted to give her the money so she could buy presents for the boys . |
| 20 | This could have severe repercussions for the landlord in that it could include easements over the adjoining retained land of the landlord adversely affecting the landlord 's ability to use or develop that land . |
| 21 | Monsieur de Craon could catch spiders in the webs he weaves . ’ |
| 22 | She could describe things like the difference between horses now and then , stuff that is virtually inaccessible . |
| 23 | Essentially this was a writing-office , which could send instructions to royal officials or foreign courts and could authorize proceedings in the most formal parts of the machine , Chancery and Exchequer . |
| 24 | You could win tickets for the biggest weekend in the air show calender . |
| 25 | If McAlpine initiates the action it is marginally more likely that the Consortium could win costs against the company if McAlpine lost . |
| 26 | It could yield kilograms of the material at a time . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a market in Russia ’ concluded Fraser — ‘ one frustratingly stifled by the lack of foreign currency , but one that could yield results in the long term . ’ |
| 28 | Conversely , the Single European Market could benefit operators in the South East but a great many operators are uncertain ( 31 per cent ) or indifferent ( 36 per cent ) to the Single Market , believing that it will have no effect . |
| 29 | Schumm ( 1968 ) also demonstrated how knowledge gained from contemporary denudation rates could give clues about the rates in geological time and suggested that with the appearance of grasses in the Cainozoic , the relations between climate , vegetation , erosion and runoff became much as today except for the subsequent influence of man . |
| 30 | Additionally , workers and pensioners could exchange notes above the maximum amounts provided that they completed an application form and could prove to special commissions that the money had been acquired legally . |