Example sentences of "could bring [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 2 | It was remarkably clean and well-maintained , and all the lights worked but Clive felt as if he ought to be wearing a pith helmet , and carrying a hunting rifle that could bring down a charging rhino at fifty paces . |
| 3 | That could bring in a few more . |
| 4 | The support of business could bring about a review of 16–19 education with the intention of integration of the pre-vocational and applied together with the academic curriculum . |
| 5 | Dover 's crucial insight was the surprising realisation that the slow , gradual homogenisation of a gene family by these internal mechanisms could bring about a more or less synchronous genetic change in a sexually reproducing population . |
| 6 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 7 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 8 | If the forces unleashed are sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia and corruption they could bring about a transformation which will have even greater impact and importance than the development of the NHS in Britain . |
| 9 | On Aug. 13 , 1989 , Richard Darman , head of the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) , publicly warned that high interest rates could bring about a recession , but such differences of opinion were played down on Oct. 13 by the Secretary of the Treasury , Nicholas Brady . |
| 10 | To think that you could bring about a utopia , and perfect human nature in one way or another , is really a wildly er , optimistic and er , is in itself , er , some kind of illusion . |
| 11 | Various happenings that could bring about a shift into Creole were mentioned , including " talking to my Grandma about some of these teachers " . |