Example sentences of "could [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could stay in a nice hotel . ’ |
| 2 | He is ready , he says , to consider Syria 's ‘ vital interests ’ in Lebanon , and by that he appears to mean that its army could stay in the Beka'a Valley , provided it is clearly intended for defence against Israeli attack and not for interference in Lebanon 's internal affairs . |
| 3 | I could stay in the hotel , ’ I said . |
| 4 | I could stay in the house and be marked as frightened , or I could do battle with the elements , making my way to the family as usual . |
| 5 | We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens , dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm . |
| 6 | ‘ Wow , ’ Wayne said , obviously wishing that he could stay in the front and eavesdrop . |
| 7 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 8 | Oh , says I , aye , I says , you could stay in the village . |
| 9 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Mandeville called , ‘ I should be grateful if you could stay in the hall . |
| 10 | Well , you could stay in the spare room over with me , out in the bedroom in the back there , for thirty dollars a night ? ’ |
| 11 | Because of fuel problems each patrol could stay in the air no more than two hours , and only relatively slow and cumbersome two-seater planes could be used . |
| 12 | Of course you could stay in an hotel ! |
| 13 | During the process the bronze was bathed in a solution of zinc salts and , unless it was carefully washed afterwards , some of these zinc salts could persist in the remaining patina on the surface . |
| 14 | When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup . |
| 15 | Our playmates swam quietly to the edge of the pool , while Lorne and I began to climb out until signalled that we could remain in the water if we wished . |
| 16 | The answer is straightforward : the exchange-rate mechanism would continue , run by the enlarged chamber of governors , and all currencies that were not in stage three could remain in the exchange-rate mechanism or outside it , depending on what they chose . |
| 17 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 18 | The compensation package offered is usually based on a local salary , which , when converted into sterling , is considerably higher than the workers could earn in the UK . |
| 19 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 20 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 21 | In one mouthful she ate as much as twelve English farmers could eat in a whole meal . |
| 22 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 23 | Praxsys could deliver in the fourth quarter : early 1993 is more likely . |
| 24 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 25 | She saves Antonio 's life , is rich , beautiful , dutiful to her father — everything a man could want in a woman . |
| 26 | She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) . |
| 27 | While , understandably , this mild recommendation was all they could make in the circumstances , there is no disguising the fact that , for the next five years at least , non-advanced further education in Wales badly needs the infusion of more resources . |
| 28 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 29 | Axelrod and Hamilton point out that reciprocal altruism could evolve without the need for individual recognition in a sessile organism ; in principle , it could evolve in a plant . |
| 30 | By definition the gene must promote the reproductive success of the selfish organisms at a cost to itself but a gene for altruism could evolve in a population of selfish individuals a population of altruists , in whom a gene for selfishness appears by random mutation . |