Example sentences of "could [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor could the standing army be cut by building up a reserve since trained men , automatically liberated when drafted , could hardly be returned to enserfed villages . |
| 2 | Could the champion jockey do it ? |
| 3 | Underlying the enthusiasm that greeted this new attempt at international co-operation there remained an unknown factor : could the wartime co-operation of the Western Allies and the USSR be maintained now that their common enemy in Europe had been defeated ? |
| 4 | He maintains that foreign exchange intervention and management of the Exchange Equalisation Account could be carried out by private institutions , as could the banking role , and monetary policies designed by the Treasury could be implemented by a major commercial bank for a fee . |
| 5 | With the benefit of hindsight er could the tornado programme have been made more efficient with the lessons that you 've learnt so far , er from er Eurofighter an and secondly , perhaps more difficult , er the lessons you have learned from tornado and certainly from the current project , could they be transferred to other complicated collaborative er project , programmes like cobra and ? |
| 6 | Could the Christmas marketing rush for album sales be starting already ? |
| 7 | How could the form teacher have approached this ? |
| 8 | And how could the bell ringer run undetected across the Tower to arrange Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 9 | Could the County Surveyor just confirm that it 's a statutory requirement that all these schemes do have to be publicly ? |
| 10 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 11 | Could a taxi driver be deprived of his licence to operate at Heathrow because of misconduct , without being given a chance to put his side of the story ? |
| 12 | But how could a fig tree ‘ retaliate' ? |
| 13 | ‘ How could a fork-lift truck run away on its own ? ’ she sobbed . |
| 14 | Would the exit road from the beach not only carry tanks but could a matting road be laid beside this route to carry wheeled vehicles ? |