Example sentences of "[noun] could [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future of the town 's biggest industry could hinge on the outcome of next month 's local election . |
| 2 | It is possible that the highly artificial experimental condition could hav eplayed a part in increasing the number of HAPCs . |
| 3 | The immediate task , as he saw it , was to open foreign policy up to democratic pressure , so that both the disinterested masses and the interested merchants and manufacturers could concert their influence for peace against the machinations of militaristic bureaucrats and their allies in the aristocracy of finance . |
| 4 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 5 | In response to a shortage of sites for further airfield construction , and also to save on huge construction costs , typically about £500,00 , a scheme was submitted to the Air Ministry whereby aircraft could take-off not on conventional runways , but by means of centrifugal launchers . |
| 6 | The notion of centrifugal launchers was based on the idea that rather than using a long , straight runway , the aircraft could take-off following a circular path around a tower , or possibly a more mobile type of launcher , rather in the manner of ‘ round-the-pole ’ model aircraft . |
| 7 | Outside readers could thumb through the paper and brood on the bread that was doubtless being baked and stashed away by the one-time cultural revolutionaries of It . |
| 8 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 9 | According to the British Tourist Authority that figure could rocket even higher thanks to the lower pound . |
| 10 | If the BBC really was being run in the ‘ national interest ’ , what benefit could competition bring ? |
| 11 | I 'm sure it crossed Martin 's mind that a fall could pendulum him back into the great flake of Eroica . |
| 12 | Countering those who painted wealth as selfishness , she said only by creating wealth could poverty be relieved . |
| 13 | Although the aim of the Meditations was to stimulate an emotional response to the humanity of Christ in an act of affective piety , this was closely tied to a theological understanding that only through a loving penitential identification with His suffering could man also experience the transfiguring reality of the power of His Resurrection and life . |
| 14 | Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by . |
| 15 | Asked if he thought an over-emphasis on sport could disadvantage black kids in academic subjects , he answered : |
| 16 | And what other circumstances could Fen envisage whereby their relationship might have been different ? |
| 17 | On other occasions a guerrilla could snake along such cover on his stomach , his legs pressed flat , knees to the ground as he wriggled closer to enemy positions , or — like one Corporal — he squirmed away from possible capture . |
| 18 | The directors could apprentice or hire out the children and other inmates , and the industrious poor could be rewarded out of any profits from their work , although no part of the money could be spent on liquor . |
| 19 | And then … as always , Hope could lull himself sooner or later into a mood of self-satisfaction at the prospect of a future rich , secure , free , and attainable … |
| 20 | He had a large place , with as many modern conveniences as a sandhole like Dead Rat could offer , but it was n't what someone with his skills could rate in a PZ . |
| 21 | With infrasound , their auditory maps could extent for hundreds of kilometres around their home . |
| 22 | He says the cost of building pensioner 's accommodation on the site could rocket to £50,000 per unit . |
| 23 | The final point could hinge on the Government being prepared to drop a financial clause , introduced in the bus privatisation programme , which limits Caldaire to 35pc of any offer above £1.3m . |
| 24 | A recognised body could practice overseas as well as in England and Wales , subject , of course , to local law and compliance with the Overseas Practice Rules . |
| 25 | Purely in the spirit of scientific advancement , I quote this line from a sleeve-note : ’ … closing the gap between songs and instrumentals towards a point at which the listener could trip out and boogie at the same time ! ’ |
| 26 | Individual families could farm plots of land leased from the state and sell any surpluses in local markets . |
| 27 | Each room should have a centre light which can be switched on before entering it , as well as table lamps , and there should be no trailing wires or flex that the elderly person could trip over . |
| 28 | If anyone is interested i could post excerpts from an article sent to rec.sport.soccer which sums up the norwegains playing in Premiership — in fact we have the largest contigent of players from outside the British Isles right now . |
| 29 | The price could rocket if South Africa descends into anarchy . |
| 30 | Was there a chance that those painful feelings could surface once more if she met him again ? |