Example sentences of "could [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law . |
| 2 | Then we could make for home , and you could meet Mother . ’ |
| 3 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 4 | This could include for example : |
| 5 | ‘ I could wait for dark , bypass the current in the fence , climb over , sneak up to the house , stick a bug on one of the windows and hope they would n't see it . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Whitehouse , in turn , began to organise those organisations on whom she felt she could count for support . |
| 7 | Until the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , only a registered patent agent or a solicitor could act for gain as agents for persons seeking patents , but now anyone can do this as long as he does not describe himself as , or hold himself out to be , a " patent agent " or " patent attorney " . |
| 8 | IF Mr Deaves can not sell his mansion , he could qualify for state handouts for even longer than a year . |
| 9 | Those with training in other performance skills , variety , singers and dancers , should consult Equity about the means whereby they could qualify for membership . |
| 10 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 11 | Beyond this opened a small glass-sided cubicle from which a senior clerk could watch for frivolity among the underlings . |
| 12 | There was n't much they could do for Martinho . |
| 13 | The people could look for deliverance to no one but themselves . |
| 14 | For sure Cabinets were made and unmade on the floor of the House , but the Cabinet for its part could unmake the House of Commons because it enjoyed the right to ask for a dissolution and after the election it could look for support from amongst members in a new House of Commons . |
| 15 | You could look for identification if , yeah |
| 16 | Watkins L.J. , at p. 82 , asked where else the Home Secretary could look for guidance as to retribution and deterrence , if not to the judges . |
| 17 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 18 | At about this time there also emerged the Islamic Revolutionary Party ( IRP ) , to provide a banner under which approved candidates could run for election to the Majles , and the Revolutionary Guards or Pasdaran-e-Enqelab-e-Eslami . |
| 19 | They wore clothes that he thought beautiful , when he could see for envy : jackets with Napoleonic pockets , trousers cut so that they reached the ground at the back , pink shirts , print ties . |
| 20 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 21 | When I was a kid it was great because you could go to the music store , put down your money and get something like an SG Junior — not an expensive guitar but a really good guitar all the same , a guitar you could keep for life . |
| 22 | It was not only the aristocracy who could hope for promotion from a change of regime : for instance Riculf hoped that the see of Tours would be granted to him by Chilperic 's son , Clovis , as a result of the Leudast affair and Gregory 's anticipated deposition . |
| 23 | Only fools , liars and criminals could hope for mercy from the enemy . |
| 24 | Souness is also monitoring the situation at Tottenham and , in the wake of Terry Venables ' ousting as chief executive , could move for centreback Neil Ruddock if he fails to sign Scales . |
| 25 | The larger unincorporated industrial towns could petition for incorporation under this Act and many did so over the following years . |
| 26 | Engels was to remark that since property was not a consideration , only the proletariat could marry for love . |
| 27 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 28 | Somewhere there would be a tutor waiting to see him — some easy-going , amiable man , not old , but a few years older than himself , with whom he could drink sherry on slightly deferential terms , and to whom he could apply for permission to hold parties , keep a car , and ride to hounds . |
| 29 | So I could have for instance thirty two tape devices running in parallel to back up my database . |
| 30 | Whenever there was trouble beyond their capacity to snuff out , they could call for air support from Khormaksa , the RAF base at Aden . |