Example sentences of "could [vb infin] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amateur radio buff Mike Bosberry , who sells hand-held scanners for Nevada Communications in Portsmouth , said : ‘ The thickest yob on the pavement could eavesdrop on mobile phones . |
| 2 | When his reign ends , they could fall on hard times . |
| 3 | Now group selection is , is the idea which grew up after Darwin and remained very common until the nineteen sixties and seventies , that natural selection could act on entire groups or species . |
| 4 | The days are gone when so-called big clubs like Manchester United could swoop on other clubs and sign their star players . |
| 5 | We were fit , thinner than any of us had ever been , good at singing , proficient with a variety of weapons , and we could survive on three hours sleep a night . |
| 6 | No one , it seemed , could work on equal terms with him . |
| 7 | They both told me how they enjoyed the sport , in which they could compete on equal terms with the able-bodied . |
| 8 | Though the expressed aim of this policy was to improve efficiency , ministers went to considerable lengths to make sure that private firms could compete on favourable terms , in the end to little effect since private firms succeeded in gaining only one in four contracts by 1990 ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 9 | Now they could draw on great levies of drug-enthralled human warriors and other even more sinister creatures . |
| 10 | Special settlement panels could call on scientific experts for advice in the case of disputes . |
| 11 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 12 | Family ‘ clans ’ could develop on old-established estates ( Young and Willmott 1954 ) and help with mutual support with children and a consolidation of lifestyle . |
| 13 | As party discipline tightened and governments could rely on regular majorities , motions ‘ that papers be laid ’ on given subjects were increasingly resisted . |
| 14 | In the search for reliability and good service , you could rely on crossed fingers or personal recommendation . |
| 15 | ‘ We had one of those social workers come round a few weeks ago — she was doing a sort of survey of old age pensioners — some idea that they could live on twenty-five shillings a week for food . |
| 16 | It had expertise , powerful allies in the heavy-industry complex and could play on powerful emotions and fears within the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | People were very impressed by horses which could canter on three legs , and even canter backwards ! |
| 18 | I would like to open up more channels with the EC to allow us to articulate better why we do what we do , otherwise issues that are important to the 100 Group 's membership , like goodwill accounting , could founder on legal grounds or simply because people do n't understand . ’ |