Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 2 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
| 3 | These probably contained most of the wheat produced on the farm that year , and could catch fire at any moment . |
| 4 | Given free plutonium , the report says that such a plant could generate electricity at 3.1 cents a kilowatt hour ( kWh ) , compared with 3.0 cents a kWh using uranium fuel in a standard reactor . |
| 5 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 6 | Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time . |
| 7 | There are few exceptions where human skulls have been found in wells and which could suggest violence at a later period . |
| 8 | The latter notion has never been made very clear , but it was one much promoted by Minsky in the late 1960s ( it enormously influenced Winograd 's view of the organization of a language understanding system , for example ) ; its essence was that there need be no permanent upper node of a system , as there always is in a hierarchical system , but that different nodes at different ‘ levels ’ could take control at different times . |
| 9 | The letter pointed out that testing could take place at any time , including home training environments . |
| 10 | Such corrective action could take place at two points in the process . |
| 11 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 12 | If this sort of thing could take place at the most sacred shrine in Delhi , then the festivals at the lesser dargahs-such as that which grew up around the grave of the saintly Emperor Bahadur Shah I — could be even more lively . |
| 13 | planning permission development could take place at any time . |
| 14 | The much valued community education services offered by the multi-cultural family orientated Highfields youth and community centre and the kind of development of services that could take place at the Moat , Moat centre . |
| 15 | According to John Collier , the chair of Nuclear Electric , the new station would capitalize on Sizewell B ( due to start operating in 1994 ) and could produce electricity at less than 3p per unit , compared to just over 4p for Sizewell B and between 6p and 8p for the older stations . |
| 16 | I could read music at one time but not now . |
| 17 | ‘ I could commit murder at this very minute . |
| 18 | I could scream abuse at him all day long ; he would n't mind at all . |
| 19 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're right , Cleg , ’ Hari sipped the hot weak tea , enjoying every mouthful , the Jones family were one of the few families in Greenhill who could afford tea at all . |
| 21 | I had also proved to myself that I could play football at least as well as the other boys , if not better . |
| 22 | Sufferers could require food at any time of the day . |
| 23 | Almost 400 workers were involved in the stoppage which could hit production at the giant Dagenham plant in Essex which makes Fiestas and the Transit van factory in Southampton . |