Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many could successfully survive in a harsh environment , and their bodies enabled them to evolve into larger and more diverse creatures . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The plan is to use that money as a launching pad for further funds that could eventually result in major building work , ’ he said . |
| 8 | But the ‘ hairy monsters ’ which no one wants at the moment are also tremendous value , and could eventually rise in value . |
| 9 | One called shock horror and the tabloids in action and one called power without responsibility because I think you could perhaps make in fact the , the taste that in terms of circulation the tabloids actually have the power to influence significantly to in int influence public attitudes so but how they exercise that power is without responsibility . |
| 10 | You could perhaps get in Edinburgh if they were all busy |
| 11 | bad we could all live in four-bedroomed detached houses ca n't you ? |
| 12 | However , despite Lord Morton 's words quoted above , in some cases the courts have been prepared to interpret clauses restrictively even where liability could only arise in negligence . |
| 13 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 14 | And in injury time , substitute Paul Trainor — who had replaced Arsenal 's John Bacon in the Derry attack — could only watch in amazement as Bohemians keeper Dave Henderson flung himself across goal to turn away a header that looked to have decided the contest . |
| 15 | She could only watch in horror from the street as a local man and soldiers battled bravely to save four-year-old Stacey and two-year-old Ciara from the blaze . |
| 16 | Shocked residents at Murphy 's Lane and Station Road could only watch in disbelief as huge concrete bollards were laid across the roads , close to the town centre . |
| 17 | The rear gunner loosed off a round of deadliness in the general direction of the fighter , but , it seemed , he was not the target and Biggins could only watch in morbid fascination as his wing man went down in flames . |
| 18 | Manager Graeme Souness 's touchline ban meant he could only watch in anguish from the directors ' box . |
| 19 | Taken aback , she could only stare in wide-eyed silence at the man who had materialised out of nowhere at her side . |
| 20 | But suddenly she was doubly shaken , and could only stare in astonishment at the tall , lean , aristocratic-looking man who had rounded that same corner in time to see all that had happened . |
| 21 | One jerk , one shudder , one small loss of control and it would spill over into a chaos so terrible that it could only end in death . |
| 22 | After that they had decided to get across the other side and ‘ maybe give the girls a fright ’ , an entirely mad idea that could only end in tears , and all the better for it . |
| 23 | Surely the situation could only end in betrayal ? |
| 24 | Dozens of angora goats were rescued from the farms , they too were neglected , with foot ingections so severe one could only walk in it 's knees . |
| 25 | She was on the point of marrying another man , so they could only meet in secret . |
| 26 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 27 | The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement . |
| 28 | Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities . |
| 29 | Lacking competition practice , she could only finish in sixth position . |
| 30 | Almost fainting from lack of air , she could only answer in choked gasps . |