Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucenzo ran lightly to the bow and vaulted the rail , landing neatly on the jetty to fasten the rope to the black and gold-striped bricole , timing everything to perfection so that he could single-handedly dock the boat and kill the engine . |
| 2 | I am afraid that the proposed law changes could fundamentally alter the game . |
| 3 | Lurking in the corridors of Brussels is a draft EC directive which could fundamentally change the way the Panel works . |
| 4 | It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it . |
| 5 | As a result of the decision , which was handed down by a judge in Newcastle , the holders of all Ministry Licences could successfully contest the termination date of existing agreements . |
| 6 | It could successfully handle the problems which arose in the therapeutic setting with the masochistic patients , always a key requirement of a theoretical change for Freud 's theorizing . |
| 7 | In November 1987 , Silviu Brucan compared Ceauşescu 's rule unfavourably with the 1960s when ‘ the Party could successfully control the mass of the workers because … a turn for the better occurred in the standard of living in almost three million peasants who joined the urban industrial workforce . ’ |
| 8 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 9 | The belief that democracy meant government by the people , or at least by their accountable representatives , was premised on the assumption that governmental power was the power in society , that politics dominated over social and economic life , and that no factional power or interest group could successfully resist the legitimate might of the popular will . |
| 10 | The Asaimara were thereby convinced they could successfully defy the Government . |
| 11 | She was eager to mingle with the other guests , but had been carefully primed by Stephen that morning to wait until they could politely leave the prime Minister and his wife . |
| 12 | Since they won their independence from the Ottoman empire 170 years ago , there have been only three times when Greeks could justifiably feel the world was smiling on them . |
| 13 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 14 | References in the text of the rules to ‘ custody ’ and ‘ observation ’ support a decision that the court could properly order the sending of an item of property out of the jurisdiction , in the instant case to South Africa , so that it could be identified by a witness whose evidence was being taken on commission there . |
| 15 | The minister did not believe that Tameside Council could properly implement the change within the limited time available . |
| 16 | But not all the skills and ingenuity of law draftsmen could wholly circumvent the deviousness of ancient land law . |
| 17 | Not even bureaucrats could wholly ignore the prevailing atmosphere of intellectual excitement . |
| 18 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 19 | But EC diplomats admitted last night that any further tightening of the pressure on Libya could badly strain the Community 's fragile unity . |
| 20 | To test for this intention we would have to establish whether he would act as he did in situations where he had no reason to believe that he could thereby induce the false belief in question . |
| 21 | Their trip , if it goes ahead , could eventually transform the lazy economies of Tonga and the Solomon Islands , threaten the future of the grey whale , and dramatically increase the world 's known oil supplies . |
| 22 | The nature of the organisation and the staff it employs tends to lead to a greater commitment to any investigation and subsequent changes , particularly if it is felt that they could eventually benefit the residents . |
| 23 | This centripetal tendency could eventually promote the construction of additional side-streets and lanes , as we shall see later . |
| 24 | If we pumped long enough we could eventually bring the potentiometric surface below the top of the aquifer . |
| 25 | And because they have bigger appetites , they could eventually deplete the rivers ' resources , leaving them empty of salmon of any description . |
| 26 | Prior to Batrec 's operations , Swiss batteries — even those collected separately by local authorities — were either sent abroad to dubious foreign dumps or were incinerated at home — a process which raised fears that residues could eventually enter the food chain . |
| 27 | They could eventually contradict the ‘ central dogma ’ that changes in dna flow into the protein molecules they code for , but never the other way round . |
| 28 | Failure to do so will mean that your efforts in negotiating long-term security of tenure might be in vain , as you could eventually find the shareholders deciding to bring your contract to a premature end and discover that you are unable to claim compensation for the full period during which you expected to work . |
| 29 | Specialists believe the discovery could eventually allow the use of drugs to correct the fault and reduce the risks for women who by the age of 50 have a 60 per cent chance of developing one of those cancers if they carry the defective gene . |
| 30 | Jiri Dienstbier , the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister , proposed the establishment of a European security commission which could eventually replace the existing two alliances . |