Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the power of the Church rituals in society to provide icons through which the reality they were designed to express could be felt , should not be underestimated as Margery Kempe 's reaction , however extreme , bears witness . |
| 2 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 3 | Moreover , the number of new members seeking to join could be significantly lower than last year . |
| 4 | He 's 26 or 27 now and that final year of waiting to qualify could tell against him . |
| 5 | The question of ratification of treaties with Western nations opened up a gulf between the Bakufu and an imperial court whose nominal supremacy Tokugawa enemies were beginning to realize could be fruitfully exploited to the regime 's disadvantage . |
| 6 | I was out of order , but the Claudia Adams who enticed Garry away from his wife and the girl I am beginning to know could be two different people . ’ |
| 7 | His secretary Pamela reads it off her memo pad : ‘ The VC 's PA rang to say could they have your nomination for the Industry Year Shadow Scheme . ’ |
| 8 | CHILDREN learning to swim could be in danger from faulty inflatable arm-bands , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 9 | Monica , 44 , said : ‘ I know that nothing can bring Alan back but for me no sentence that our courts are allowed to impose could ever be enough . |
| 10 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 11 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 12 | With old ones anyone you were trying to arrest could over power you . |
| 13 | The elegant constitutional structure he is trying to create could rest on shifting economic foundations . |
| 14 | They too were determined to ‘ modernize ’ biology , but they could not abandon fieldwork because the phenomena they wished to study could only be observed in the wild . |
| 15 | One thinks rather the better of Phyllis Bottome for wanting to believe that what had to happen could in fact have been averted . |
| 16 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 17 | What he had to say could wait until morning . |
| 18 | They talked in low voices , pausing when the waiter put food before them , as if whatever they had to say could not be shared , even by a discreet French boy with an imperfect grasp of English . |
| 19 | How much of what teachers currently feel they have to do could be accomplished as well or better by the use of a library of varied instructional materials supervised by well-trained staff with both bibliographical and subject-teaching competence ? |
| 20 | Just as ideas of precedence between states could be adjusted in practice to cope with the growing importance of the Dutch republic or Savoy , so governments which really wanted to negotiate could always find ways of doing so which side- stepped difficulties of ceremonial and procedure . |
| 21 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 22 | Thus , where a lease contained a covenant to build certain buildings by a specified date and an obligation to keep them in repair , it was held that once the tenant had failed to build the buildings on time , no further covenant to build could be implied from the covenant to repair ( Stephens v Junior Army and Navy Stores [ 1914 ] 2 Ch 516 ) . |
| 23 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 24 | And within the Six there was an almost unanimous rejection of the British arguments that an institutional framework above that provided by the OEEC was not necessary , and that what the Six wanted to achieve could equally easily be reached by strengthening the OEEC . |