Example sentences of "could [verb] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A consultant had advised them that they could earn £10.5m more from their current activities , and that there was a potential additional revenue of £25m to be made from the campus by expanding into calendars , hot dogs and more . |
| 2 | Anderson believes the TV deal with Warner Brothers could make Cole another £100,000 . |
| 3 | There are always ways that we could make people more effective or help people to got the wrong flip , but , but to grow into other jobs . |
| 4 | These could cover items such as interpretation , waiver of rights , severability , forum for settling disputes , an arbitration clause , and so on . |
| 5 | The third aim could include projects such as financing the decontamination of abandoned industrial sites . |
| 6 | One day 's menu could include dishes such as Moussaka followed by Banana Rice Pudding for lunch with Cheese and Tomato Bake for supper . |
| 7 | He was good and could win beer that way . |
| 8 | She could repeat sentences such as ‘ The window was broken by John ’ . |
| 9 | ( As ‘ an old Latin scholar ’ , he was appalled that people could mangle words that way . ) |
| 10 | I thought I could give dad some of these and then eat them all myself |
| 11 | However , he had a peculiar knowledge of his own , and could give information such as no one else could impart . ’ |
| 12 | The court was told that a stuffed golden eagle could be worth £1,000 and the other birds could fetch £160 each . |
| 13 | It may be that this analysis could show universities those regions where particular methodologies , previously untried , may yield useful new information . |
| 14 | The Houses of Parliament were ‘ a disgrace to the country ’ and he could bring Palmerston another delegation supporting a ‘ Grecian building ’ . |
| 15 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 16 | The end-grain centre line of the top — for an inch or so — should be screwed and glued , ( pocket screw ) for with buttons right round , the top is able to ‘ float ’ upon the sub-frame , and shrinkage could take place all from one side , which would ultimately bring the top off-centre to the table . |
| 17 | The SD station at nearby Friedberg noted that people were ‘ convinced that the fall of Stalingrad could take place any day ’ , even if with a presumed heavy toll of German lives . |
| 18 | Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue . |
| 19 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
| 20 | Profits could reach £10m this year — implying a multiple of almost 30 at 93p — and even that might prove over-optimistic under a Labour government . |
| 21 | At least , I went — I suppose I could tell Hayley that . |
| 22 | For a moment , he wished he could tell Elinor these things . |
| 23 | The only way we could guard Steiner any closer is by having an MP share his bed and that would never do . ’ |
| 24 | See if there 's something down here that you could read we could play schools this afternoon . |
| 25 | Fissuring of an atherosclerotic plaque would also expose collagen fibres , and the adhering platelets could release agents such as thromboxane A 2 and ADP , which would rapidly lead to adhesion and aggregation of more platelets and growth of the thrombus . |
| 26 | But the first week of the quarter you could get messages all that week which you did n't have to pay till the end of the quarter . |
| 27 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 28 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 29 | A spokesman said the cash could unlock projects such as the proposed University of the Highlands and Islands , a vehicle ferry or causeway linking Lewis , Harris and the Uists , major upgrading of single-track roads , and provision of new factories , workshops and offices . |
| 30 | But it is doubtful if this argument will lead to any exceptions being made in an orchestrated campaign which could hit projects such as the proposals for a power plant which British Gas said yesterday it had negotiated with Bahrain . |