Example sentences of "could [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , we are offering a family the diagnosis of a lethal untreatable disorder in an apparently healthy baby ; secondly , the protocol was designed so that we could modify practice in the light of experience ; and , thirdly , families should have choice at every stage from the initial screening test to a confirmed diagnosis . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd be grateful if you could spare time for a fitting , and I did think it would be a good idea if I could hold a rehearsal of everyone concerned in my part of the show before the official one . |
| 3 | In practice , it is difficult to see how learning theories could explain crime without any reference to invention . |
| 4 | His mother the dowager Queen Isabella survived until 1358 and if she could transmit title to Edward III , why could not Jeanne of Navarre , Louis X 's daughter , or any of the daughters of Philip V do likewise ? |
| 5 | The difference may seem slight , but it could affect interpretation of the event , since the most important assembly of the Gallic provinces , the Council of the Gauls , was re-established in the former year . |
| 6 | Both companies issued statements saying that there was no conclusive evidence that television could affect behaviour in the manner suggested , but Mrs Whitehouse has still claimed that the coverage in the following days had been considerably transformed , using ‘ stills ’ rather than action sequences , and long shots rather than close-ups . |
| 7 | BGS staff on secondment prepared detailed geological maps of a reclamation area in the New Territories of Hong Kong and delineated the portion underlain by cavernous marble , the presence of which could affect development of the area . |
| 8 | This meant that there were essentially three variables which could affect risk of relapse : level of EE , level of contact , and maintenance medication . |
| 9 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 10 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 11 | We may guess that a pipe flow with an artificially induced parabolic profile at the entry could remain laminar to even higher Reynolds numbers than flows with a normal entry length . |
| 12 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 13 | But perhaps more importantly , other countries found dollars not just as good as gold , but better than gold , since they could earn interest on their dollar holdings . |
| 14 | Alternatively , we could earn commission by putting such buyers in touch with a suitable finance house . |
| 15 | These companies could earn revenue from continuing the business data services which BSB previously offered . |
| 16 | Cleveland and Yorkshire North MEP David Bowe has told campaigners that the EC could grant money for a feasibility study if the line whose future is threatened by British Steel 's decision to transfer Redmire quarry limestone from rail to roads from September was part of a regional transport plan … |
| 17 | He had been wondering if the man suspected , wondering how he could prepare Rim for the final crushing rev elation . |
| 18 | She did not accept that within a more open-ended task , all children could experience success by setting themselves goals which they would work towards accomplishing . |
| 19 | On May 4th , before a meeting of the Council of the Americas , he said that the only way he could build support for a system of open trade was to apply the laws that Congress had put in place , and to hold America 's partners to agreements they have made . |
| 20 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 21 | But some of the headmasters have a deliberate multi-denominational policy in terms of ethos and curriculum and the schools do provide multi-denominational settings which , if researched , could throw light on debates about denominational and shared schools . |
| 22 | The association 's magazine Which ? says that insurance companies and the Department of Transport collect accident details that could throw light on the cars which best protect their occupants , but this information is not made public . |
| 23 | Whenever controversies came , it was observed , he gathered every author who could throw light on them ; he saw both sides of a case with more imagination than most of his contemporaries . |
| 24 | " Anything which could throw light on why someone disliked him enough to smash in his skull . " |
| 25 | ‘ Very likely , but anything you do find out could throw light on the family . |
| 26 | Importance was attached to the legitimate interest which the English public would have in information which could throw light on a major " unsolved " crime . |
| 27 | Baroness Hooper , the Government 's junior health spokeswoman , put her name to a press release which effectively said people could eat sugar without worry . |
| 28 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 29 | Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack . |
| 30 | And she knew that this outing had been contrived by him so that he could make progress with her . |