Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main bar had an alcove with more marble than Lord Elgin could have handled , and , at the northern end of Blackfriars Bridge , it was over-popular with the lunch-time City crowd who thought it daring to venture across the river . |
| 2 | The paper said that a close contest could push the price up to over $1bn ( £610m ) . |
| 3 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 4 | Mr Singh could take him to the bus when he was on late shifts and collect him on early shifts . |
| 5 | The teacher suggested that Mrs Singh could help by reading with him , Mrs Singh to read one line , Jeetinder the next ; she was evidently unaware of the possibility that Jeetinder 's reading could be more competent than his mother 's . |
| 6 | The psychologist had suggested among other things that Mrs Singh could help to improve Jeetinder 's spoken and written language by reading to him at bedtime and could help to improve his numeracy by encouraging him to spend and account for his pocket money . |
| 7 | This could , however , suggest too late a date for the work at Trier ( for it is very unlikely to have been after 325 ) , indeed , Parlasca ( 1975 , 77 ) thinks the mosaicist could have travelled in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 9 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 10 | If the beach is crowded with swimmers , sail well clear of them since a board travelling even at low speed could do severe damage to someone 's head . |
| 11 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 12 | Speed could have had at least 3 goals , and Deane could have had 3 . |
| 13 | She dragged on a cigarette and wrote , as if words could change a thing . |
| 14 | Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation . |
| 15 | Her heart sank ; she had been so intent on trying to score off him that she had n't given a thought to what her careless words could do to the understanding that had seemed to be developing between them . |
| 16 | Words could open these strange worlds again . |
| 17 | He was confident , anyway , that his words could talk her out of any ill-feeling . |
| 18 | Sense-based definitions of words could contribute to the subsequent overlap process by providing more concise , pertinent definitions and reducing the chances of spurious overlaps due to inappropriate but co-incident word senses . |
| 19 | ‘ I never thought two words could earn one such fame , ’ he said from his home in West London . |
| 20 | The end of the message disintegrated into sobs which no amount of soothing words could stem . |
| 21 | Mr Salam , 84 , a Sunni Muslim , is the most impressive of Lebanon 's dying breed of elder statesmen , but his words could have been those of a much younger man . |
| 22 | Prosecution experts said the mushrooms were a product and substance , but agreed that the words could have different meaning . |
| 23 | If the unidentified letters had been " sharE " then a number of words could have been presented . |
| 24 | Out on the pathway leading to the gate he took her arm , saying , ‘ She gets dafter as she gets older , ’ but there was such warmth in his tone that his words could have been translated as , ‘ Is n't she marvellous ! ’ |
| 25 | But at least her words could sting . |
| 26 | Truly my living words could vindicate me ; ask Helen , if they would not. , The necessary complement to the epistolary picture of his Oxford life is his own book Oxford , published three years after he came down . |
| 27 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 28 | And er you know , your words could find their way into one of Longman 's dictionaries . |
| 29 | Describing Mr Edwards as ‘ a good man , a devoted husband , a caring father and a considerate neighbour ’ Mgr Bartley said that no words could decry the depths to which his killers descended . |
| 30 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |