Example sentences of "could [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benveniste et al showed that < was susceptible to lipase C and D , and Moreau et al reported that pentagastrin could enhance gastric lipase activity in humans . |
| 2 | Besides , women workers might be cheaper , but too many depressed breadwinners could damage national morale , and morale needed to be high for what was coming . |
| 3 | Shortly before the dockworkers ' strike the then armed forces Chief of Staff Gen. Sunthorn had reportedly warned that privatization could damage national security . |
| 4 | Grain farmers have a once-a-year production and sale cycle , and any crop failure could affect individual farming businesses , leaving the nation to import up to £2,000 million of replacement grain ! |
| 5 | And a report to Darlington borough councillors says the plans could affect small housing developments to the south of Court Arcade . |
| 6 | Down in 24th place in the Ryder Cup points table , Feherty could earn automatic selection by lifting the £108,330 first prize . |
| 7 | Down in 24th place in the Ryder Cup points table , Feherty could earn automatic selection by lifting the £108,330 first prize . |
| 8 | Under the supplementary benefit system , single parents could earn additional income and only part of this was offset against their benefit . |
| 9 | In the soap factory , pineapple canning factory , anywhere she could earn quick motley . |
| 10 | It was the concept of parole , originally at the discretion of the Home Secretary , but amended in the course of the passage of the legislation through Parliament so that he could grant early release on licence to a prisoner only if advised to do so by a statutory Parole Board , that commanded the keenest interest of penal reformers and had the most extensive effects . |
| 11 | Crabb Robinson 's papers were kept in Dr Williams 's Library in Gordon Square , originally designed as University Hall , supported by Robinson as a place in which lay students could experience collegiate university life . |
| 12 | here they could experience English country life and learn to speak the language at the same time . |
| 13 | Most of the information available from institutions from which we could sample concerned adult applicants rather than adult enquirers . |
| 14 | You could build happy birthday card . |
| 15 | After all , she was not now responsible for anyone else , so she could throw good sense and caution to the winds . |
| 16 | Dr Dafydd Griffiths , at the Institute of Archaeology , has been using these techniques to find answers to these questions , which could throw considerable light on past trading routes and cultural contacts . |
| 17 | They were united , too by a common aim ; they both wanted to do what they could to restore normal life in that community , to take away the fear and to see justice done . |
| 18 | You 'd never think we could eat could eat proper food . |
| 19 | ‘ I could eat old Hagen 's hoss wi' two pennorth o' chips , ’ said Bob as we went our merry ways . |
| 20 | It is clear the National government 's right-wing attitudes and its hostility to the threat of communism could override public concern within the context of its parliamentary supremacy . |
| 21 | What about the sweatshops of Korea , or the rich Kuwaiti women who buy merely for their own pleasure and hide their couture gowns under their abayas because they are not allowed to display themselves … it 's a far cry from the fashion world as it is usually depicted , it could make fascinating copy . |
| 22 | What some experts would like to see is a system of reciprocity whereby companies could make international equity offerings using their home market accounting standards without the need to reconcile their financial statements to the standards of each jurisdiction in which shares are offered . |
| 23 | It was a surprise in both the trial schools that molecules could make mental arithmetic so popular . |
| 24 | ‘ Jackie could make sure Biff was pickled and we could all sneak out together . ’ |
| 25 | Ian soon learned how to dodge the flying hooves of Boy and remain in control of his bike , but what he had n't expected was the clinging weight and depth of wet Wadhurst clay — somersaulting with a squelch into one of the deepest bogs which appeared regularly between the level stretches of good galloping ground where both could make good speed . |
| 26 | You look like you could make good use of a break . ’ |
| 27 | A PUBLIC inquiry today could make legal history as the Nature Conservancy Council attempts for the first time to purchase compulsorily a farmer 's land to protect a rich wildlife habitat . |
| 28 | Election ‘ 92 : How Ashdown could make Labour sweat |
| 29 | He could dance as well as fight , and he could make polite conversation . |
| 30 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |