Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the average ferreter of today could make no impression worth mentioning in that type of situation . |
| 2 | Look erm could do with being , having a doorway across back of here could n't they ? |
| 3 | Peter Rogers , however , is adamant that neither of then could be called the real star of the ‘ Carry Ons ’ . |
| 4 | Put your crutch under there could n't you ? |
| 5 | The committee pointed out that " industry can not grow steadily in a situation where industrial policy three years from now could be in the hands of politicians of utterly opposed political views " . |
| 6 | Only from here could it be reasonably expected to take off . |
| 7 | Fallout from here could contaminate the whole continent . ’ |
| 8 | Could have had some in , some in here could n't he ? |
| 9 | The body shell had been crushed in and anybody in there could only have come out through the windscreen . |
| 10 | ‘ People who got in there could make a job for their sons , nephews , friends and relations . |
| 11 | And Toshiba could go in there could n't it and the other one on its side in there . |
| 12 | London lies at the last point where a Roman bridge could comfortably cross the Thames , where landborne traffic and ships from overseas could readily meet . |
| 13 | THE phone scanners ' target for today could be YOU . |
| 14 | Indeed , too overt an attempt to so could well be counterproductive and lay them open to the charge of meddling . |
| 15 | But they the Prestige Sterling as it 's known over here could have been more successful . |
| 16 | Yes , you could n't put it all in the at once could you |
| 17 | But last night they at least could not be faulted on their spirit . |
| 18 | In contrast with their younger counterparts , some of whom at least could hope realistically for the possibility of promotion , the older field men have little ambition , though they retain some sense of mission . |
| 19 | Chapter 4 will show that the courts do , or at least could , play a part in controlling the quality of management decision making by laying down and enforcing appropriate standards of care and skill , but requiring judges to determine whether managers have complied with what are essentially procedural decision-making criteria is quite different from asking them to participate in the decision-making process itself . |
| 20 | Cadfael at least could breathe again . |
| 21 | Perhaps the aspect of the postwar settlement to which he could most easily reconcile himself was decolonization , because that at least could be understood within a fundamentally nationalist framework . |
| 22 | Owen had then Adam and three others still marshalled at his back , not one of them whole , though these at least could stand and go . |
| 23 | Who around here could give her the life and comfort she gets here ? |