Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke halted trials of the American-style side handled baton saying : ‘ It could fundamentally alter for the worse the style of policing in this country . |
| 2 | During the late 1980s and early 1990s , investors thought they could successfully invest in ‘ growth ’ shares that were at once exciting and defensive — among them , the giant consumer-product and health-care companies whose pricing power was meant to guard their earnings from the cyclical downturns that the stockmarket was bound to suffer . |
| 3 | That in itself did not necessarily matter ; experience had shown that Scotland could successfully cope with a series of minorities . |
| 4 | They could successfully compete with the true mammals who also evolved in the late Triassic ( and who also acquired the upright gait shortly after the archosaurs ) . |
| 5 | Many could successfully survive in a harsh environment , and their bodies enabled them to evolve into larger and more diverse creatures . |
| 6 | ‘ The experience we gained through High Island gave us the confidence to know we could successfully work with Tatham , ’ Broussard says . |
| 7 | Considering they had also beaten New South Wales convincingly they could justifiably claim to be the top provincial side around . |
| 8 | At least this time he could justifiably claim to be doing so in a higher cause than that of his own political survival . |
| 9 | The court rejected this proposition , but went on to consider whether the Secretary of State could justifiably depart from the judicial view on tariff . |
| 10 | It was for the Roman to decide whether he would speak in Latin or in Greek to a Greek public — that is , with or without interpreter — and Aemilius Paulus could skilfully pass from one language to the other ( Liv . |
| 11 | In fact the existence of code-switching is not incompatible with the continuum hypothesis , since speakers could presumably switch between different lects at the extremes of their own range . |
| 12 | If such a program detective had descriptions of all the high-level languages ever written , and knew them to be all there were , then he could presumably work through them all in turn ( the obvious difference from the human brain case being that , even if it has a high-level programming language we have no idea what it could be like ) . |
| 13 | Burns triumphantly hijacks this image by extending the golden substance to the borders of manhood — ‘ a man 's a man for a ’ that' , so that one could properly ask for ‘ one man , one vote ’ . |
| 14 | ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury . |
| 15 | Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case . |
| 16 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 17 | The only other alternative was to start an original act but after years of ‘ dancing as one , ’ most Girls could rarely think as individuals . |
| 18 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 19 | Worse than this , it will tend to rub the identification markings off the components , and could eventually result in more serious damage , such as detached leads . |
| 20 | To ensure formal consideration on a future agenda , a recommendation by Mexico was adopted calling for exclusive allocations for both amateur and broadcasting services around 7MHz which , it is hoped , could eventually result in a common worldwide amateur 40m band . |
| 21 | ‘ The plan is to use that money as a launching pad for further funds that could eventually result in major building work , ’ he said . |
| 22 | He could eventually grow to five feet or more . |
| 23 | It is hoped that some 6,000 organisations could eventually benefit from involvement with the project . |
| 24 | At this stage in the study , there were still many questions unanswered about detailed aspects of the new legislation , and it was also necessary to find out more about College activities and functions , particularly those that could eventually contribute to the exercise of balancing costs with income . |
| 25 | Although these actions could eventually lead to improved records management generally , the high cost in terms of staff involvement that would result was felt to outweigh the benefits that would be gained . |
| 26 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 27 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 28 | Alcide de Gasperi was particularly interested in the EPC proposal which was initially vague but could eventually lead to a common parliament , a joint foreign policy and a full ‘ common market ’ . |
| 29 | The work , if confirmed , could eventually lead to clinical application in the treatment of aplastic anaemia and malignancy . |
| 30 | This latter idea was rejected by Iran , which maintained its insistence on negotiations on Resolution 598 in its entirety and under UN mediation , despite Hussein 's Dec. 2 suggestion that the committees could eventually lead to meetings " at leadership level " . |