Example sentences of "could [vb infin] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 2 | They could explain to the child why he feels as though the world has turned upside down and why his remaining parent seems so upset . |
| 3 | By the 1980s a certain amount of international agreement had developed , suggesting that a country 's spending on research should be justified in primarily economic terms — in terms of the technical innovations which research could deliver to the economy . |
| 4 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 5 | Some will be more businesslike , some will be better equipped , some will be growing , others in decline — all these factors directly affect both the contribution which they could make to a partnership and the objective which they would expect to gain from it . |
| 6 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 7 | It was work towards which all Ramsey 's training and expectations led as the right contribution which he could make to the life of his Church and to that of Christendom . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , relatively few women saw sheepdog work as a useful contribution they could make to the farm . |
| 9 | I feel the greatest contribution the National Council could make to the Rottweiler in Australia is the stabilizing of type , but in the present climate , with a flood of imports from various destinations , this will be all the more difficult . |
| 10 | They were received in one of the general 's famous caravans , and Stirling outlined the contribution his unit could make to the coming battle . |
| 11 | Firmly replacing the lid he marvelled , as he always did , at the difference one girl and an eighteen-month-old baby could make to the volume of household waste . |
| 12 | Legislation further restricting the employment of children reduced the contribution they could make to the family economy . |
| 13 | The introduction of compulsory elementary education after 1870 may have prompted a re-evaluation of the cost of children because it seriously diminished the contribution the child could make to the family economy . |
| 14 | On the other hand , repeated reference was made in the debate " to the valuable contribution that assistance for family planning could make to the health of women " . |
| 15 | The US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , said on Oct. 13 , 1989 , that the technology had placed an effective anti-missile system within US reach and described it as " the single most important military bequest this generation could make to the future " . |
| 16 | After about nine months ' stay they could graduate to a single room but by then many preferred to be in with their friends . |
| 17 | Religious experience offered a release through which women could testify to an authoritative experience in which gender was transcended . |
| 18 | This is because the compound could relate to a set of different word combinations ( e.g. ‘ tennis court ’ is a singular noun but ‘ tennis courts ’ is a plural noun ) . |
| 19 | A patentable invention could relate to a new piece of computer hardware such as a new mouse , new type of output device such as a more efficient flat screen or new form of storage medium or it could be a new way of making integrated circuits or flat screens . |
| 20 | No doubt , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you will wonder how rail transport could relate to the Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee . |
| 21 | Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis . |
| 22 | It 's about what 's happening in our everyday lives , down the street , round the corner , including , and especially including civic art and architecture which , above all , could relate to the real lives of the community . |
| 23 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 24 | ‘ It was comforting that you had something you could upgrade to a 486 if you needed to . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the Spanish translation of Rousseau 's Social Contract could appeal to a ‘ son of Padilla ’ ; it was enthusiasm for the parliamentary institutions of medieval Spain which allowed the Cortes of Cadiz to present a constitution , founded on the constitutions of Revolutionary France , as the culmination of the ‘ true ’ constitutional development of Spain . |
| 26 | In the present case , if the Court of Appeal had upheld the decision of Robertson J. on the first part , it would have been unfair to deny the respondents a right of appeal to the Privy Council on the compromise issue or the cancellation issue while accepting the petitioner could appeal to the Privy Council as of right if the petitioner failed on the misconduct issue . |
| 27 | An unsuccessful applicant could appeal to the regional committee . |
| 28 | This would mean that one could appeal to the weak anthropic principle , provided one could show that string theory does at least allow there to be such regions of the universe-and it seems that indeed string theory does . |
| 29 | A union or autonomous republic could appeal to the USSR Committee for Supervision of the Constitution or to the President of the USSR against USSR economic legislation or Council of Ministers resolutions . |
| 30 | Furthermore , an applicant who had been refused planning permission could appeal to the ministry . |