Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 2 | But budgetary relations between the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress are now so strained that some officials warn that the whole process of long-term deficit reduction could be threatened . |
| 3 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 4 | Smith and Sambur ( 1980 ) who built the NOAH system have suggested that the discrimination function could be improved by categorising words into four sets based on their acoustic discriminability and semantic content or usefulness . |
| 5 | The aim of our study was to find out if the more potent prokinetic drug cisapride could prevent duodenal ulcer relapse . |
| 6 | Rail service providers would have an automatic right of access anywhere in the EC so that , for example , a UK-German rail link could not be prevented from using Dutch or Belgian tracks . |
| 7 | In the late 1960s it was found that the drug amphetamine could induce some of the symptoms of schizophrenia in otherwise normal subjects . |
| 8 | Our first thought might be that an individual bank which was short of base money could raise the rate of interest it offered to depositors . |
| 9 | This is about the energy that would be released if a hydrogen atom could be totally converted into energy . |
| 10 | It calculated that a typical out-of-work student entitled to housing benefit and income support could have expected to receive £733.80 over the 12-week vacation . |
| 11 | The activities required for successful operation of the EPH were known , and , based on the acquired knowledge of the EPH environment , those activities that were suitable for computer support could , in consultation with the client , be identified with reasonable accuracy . |
| 12 | The introduction of computer support could have had significantly different effects on the service providers and on the users , and the Needs Analysis was carried out using a different questionnaire for each generic group . |
| 13 | When he judged the moment was right — that he could turn the Mercedes faster than the truck driver could alter the onward rush of his mammoth — he swung the wheel to the left , switching to the outer lane . |
| 14 | England 's World Cup preparation outdoors could clearly not be ignored but , even with a weakened squad , a medal might have been in reach . |
| 15 | Alternatively , a slight positive movement of base level could flood the area behind a line of coastal dunes on a low-lying coast , so that the dunes projected above high water level and formed the basis on which the bar was built . |
| 16 | For her , restriction of activities to programmes of formal course provision could not satisfy the wider objectives of the WEA . |
| 17 | However , at this point , the proposal that a computer index could be developed to improve the management of filing systems generally was considered worthwhile , and this became the focus of the early part of the study . |
| 18 | Of course , we know that an income figure for the defence budget could not yield the kind of information that it would yield in a profit-oriented organization , not least because it would simply yield a huge ‘ loss ’ ! |
| 19 | This shift in emphasis has taken place partly because the restrictions on the use of organo-chloride pesticides introduced in the 1960s have enabled some of the more extreme threats to wildlife preservation to recede and partly because pesticide manufacturers countered nature conservationist claims that they were responsible for the reduction in bird population by arguing that hedgerow and woodland removal could be the prime culprits . |
| 20 | Instead of the author receiving 10% of the list price when a copy of his book is sold , the literature board could fund a scheme by which he receives the whole of the list price . |
| 21 | The Magic Line follows a bolted , pebble-studded slab up the front of the dome and the route finding could n't have been simpler . |
| 22 | Bakker believed that dinosaur speed could , reasonably accurately enough , be worked out from the angle of the limb joints . |
| 23 | It is easy to understand the excitement that such new teaching practice could generate . |
| 24 | He says that if the whole building complex could have gone up . |
| 25 | A kind future could not ourselves be kind . |
| 26 | What other Fourth Division club could possibly consider facing that sort of challenge ? ’ |
| 27 | Completion of the Raytheon deal could still take some weeks to finalise . |
| 28 | The capture of two 10lb bream from Grafham reservoir on fish imitating lures was treated as though the incidents were especially significant ; that lure fishing could be regarded as a specially good method for catching exceptionally big bream . |
| 29 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 30 | As the dust began to subside , shafts of late afternoon light could be seen raking down the village streets . |