Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments using the simulation model are thus made possible ; an example given earlier showed how a planner could modify a river-basin simulation model to allow for the expansion of an urban area . |
| 2 | The idea is that it could supervise an Iraqi withdrawal or police the Kuwait-Iraq border if Saddam Hussein ordered a pull-out . |
| 3 | It is also possible that small intestinal overgrowth with deconjugating bacteria was present in some cases , which could counteract a concomitant effect of ileal dysfunction on bile acid synthesis . |
| 4 | He was asked if he could reassure the expected 135,000 British tourists to his country of their safety — Britain is the most important country to South Africa 's lucrative holiday trade . |
| 5 | Cluster groups of schools could conduct a joint review , sharing their experiences . |
| 6 | Their willingness to do so was confirmed by Libya 's foreign minister , Ibrahim Bechari , who said that Western investigators were welcome in Libya and that the Libyan judge looking into the allegations , Ahmed al-Zawi , would like to have more US or Scottish evidence in the case so that he could conduct a solid interrogation of the two men . |
| 7 | Health Department guidelines supported by the college say that HIV-infected health care workers could conduct a normal delivery as long as it did not involve invasive surgery . |
| 8 | To return to the second point about church growth made at the end of the second chapter , ‘ demand ’ is not the only factor in church growth ; one must also consider supply , and the Free Church was gradually coming into the position where it could service the new demand . |
| 9 | We could stay a few extra days and make a holiday of it . |
| 10 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 11 | Neither did I. I never imagined that a father could treat a dying child as cruelly and wickedly as we later discovered Heathcliff had done . |
| 12 | The comments come just ahead of two key decisions by Scottish Office ministers which will set the tone for the new curriculum and could damage the wide agreement over its introduction . |
| 13 | The BA 's trade practice executive Sydney Davies , in a letter to the Home Office , reiterated concern that the directive could damage the free flow of information and add ‘ an intolerable and costly administrative burden to the book industry ’ . |
| 14 | The danger is it could damage the very relations we tend , we need to build . |
| 15 | One , where the exerciser has one leg outstretched and the other bent backwards , ‘ could damage the bent knee enough to warrant surgery ’ , says Wendy . |
| 16 | Poulson and Associates made it clear that they were not a ‘ financial development company ’ but that they could locate a suitable such investor for the scheme . |
| 17 | By rotating it until it cut out the polarised light , the Vikings could locate the dark polarised band . |
| 18 | So intently did Nietzsche interpret Schopenhauer 's " personal " relevance at this time , that he could locate the vital centre of the philosopher 's system in its therapeutic power to help with the practical crises of living . |
| 19 | Sir Paul would be grateful if Commander Dalgliesh could spare a few minutes to see him . |
| 20 | It could explain a wide range of phenomena . |
| 21 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 22 | Histological investigation of the intestine did not show any morphological features that could explain the physiological observations . |
| 23 | In a histological investigation of the intestine we were unable to show any morphological changes that could explain the physiological observations . |
| 24 | Textiles were in full decline ; the old metal trades had vanished to the point where no artisan could explain the traditional techniques . |
| 25 | This could explain the surprising ( given the stage of the economic cycle we are in ) recent resurgence in consumer durables ( including cars ) . |
| 26 | As the Zuccarelli tone will be heard in addition to the natural tone from the ear of a headphone listener , this could explain the exaggerated effect of his recordings . |
| 27 | She could explain the sinister origins of the nursery rhyme , ‘ Ring a Ring of Roses . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Heyerdahl could explain the great stone statues on Easter Island in the south Pacific only by insisting that South Americans must have gone there . |
| 29 | C/EBPα mRNA levels are down-regulated in mice by IL-6 ( 43 ) and since it has been demonstrated that this protein interacts with the albumin promoter , a negative AP gene , ( 44 ) this could explain the IL-6 dependent down-regulation of the albumin protein levels . |
| 30 | The MPs have concluded this could explain the leftwing bias they allege in some TV programmes . |