Example sentences of "that could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice that could reach with ease to the upper gallery of the Shield Theatre sounded in the Holborn drawing-room , calling attention to the silent young man who had arrived with the Professor but so far had not said a word . |
| 2 | Look for bits of the programme that could stand on their own . |
| 3 | ‘ I am enumerating the items that could stand against you should the will be contested , ’ said Mr Aycliffe patiently . |
| 4 | The crystal structure presented here suggests that GH5 has a primary mode of binding to DNA based on the similarity with CAP , and the presence of a secondary site that could bind to another duplex of DNA . |
| 5 | She knew now it was something she could n't face , to be possessed of magic — magic that could explode without warning and all but kill you … ’ |
| 6 | It was a passion that could exist without that . |
| 7 | So we should not be dogmatic , and assume that the kind of life we have on Earth is the only kind that could exist in the entire Universe ; and ‘ living ’ clays may flourish elsewhere , perhaps even on Mars ( as suggested by Professor Hyman Hartman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . |
| 8 | It eliminates white blood cells that could react against the body 's own normal cells . |
| 9 | Then think of all the sounds that could be " suspect " with this sound , i.e. all the sounds that could vary from this sound with just a slight change of some of these features . |
| 10 | ( 1988 ) , and that these experiences used an that changed ( being a train of clicks that could vary in frequency ) from one trial to the next . |
| 11 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 12 | Already I have the feeling that I 'm a bit too thin — that Anna , whose house I am at , will say that I was never fat in the first place : ‘ Oh , you 're all right , skinny ribs ’ ; that mixture of dismissal and envy she uses , excluding me from the problems of other girls , from real problems like her fat thighs , or her backside that could do with ‘ half an hour on a bacon slicer ’ , as she puts it . |
| 13 | As in any software , there are bits here and there that could do with a polish , but , overall , Mainlan GTI for Windows does everything you 're likely to want in a small network environment . |
| 14 | Now there 's another element of business correspondence that could do with some attention and purpose behind it . |
| 15 | Also at the Osborne is the Langtry , more formal for dinner with monthly set price à la carte menu that could start with deep fried Brixham crab pancake flavoured with Bramley apples and lemon , or for main course one of Chef Colin Liddy 's noted dishes — Cornish hake poached with deep fried leeks and saffron and vermouth sauce . |
| 16 | Lenin 's confidence that the soviets would provide the country with a revolutionary form of government that could function without bureaucracy was proved ill-founded almost as soon as they began their work . |
| 17 | I had no magic that could open to me any one of those dark doors , lighted windows . |
| 18 | but normally I ca n't sleep here I al I always admired anybody that could sleep with a for yea it 's only this last couple of years I can do it , no I mean I 'll doze . |
| 19 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 20 | As the number of people in Europe has increased , animals that could cohabit with humans thrive while others are marginalised . |
| 21 | HERE 's a semi that could grow on you … |
| 22 | Hewlett-Packard Co has beaten both the incumbent mainframe supplies , IBM Corp and Unisys Corp to a contract with Televerket of Stockholm to an initial $4.6m contract that could grow to $100m by 1996 . |
| 23 | That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement . |
| 24 | I have found a comfortable position that could last for hours on the sofa in my front room . |
| 25 | Grand Slam or no Grand Slam , John Monie will leave Wigan with a legacy that could last for ever . |
| 26 | Hopes and expectations were high ; Britain was desperate for a car that could compete at the top level with Alfa Romeo and Ferrari , and BRM , with the backing of British industry , was the car to do it . |
| 27 | Likewise , to give the fistula-suffering monarch ( Hugh Ross ) rather more than his fair share of Fisher King-like significance , he is made to stagger about in a stagy , enfeebled agony that could compete with Amfortas 's travails in Parsifal . |
| 28 | When the Secretary of State made his recent announcement in the House of the second wave of trust applications and approved in principle applications for the four London teaching hospitals he said that , in the interim , until the review was completed , they would benefit from the advantages that could flow from greater local hospital management devolution . |
| 29 | DOCTORS hope to announce an experiment next month that could lead to the use of animal organs for human transplants within the next five years . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a policy that could lead to economic and environmental chaos . ’ |