Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group concluded that Mrs Thatcher 's continued participation in the contest could only prove disastrous for the party : she might either scrape a narrow victory and limp on , having lost the confidence of the party , or lose and allow Heseltine to become Prime Minister . |
| 2 | To achieve this end , Sir Edward had to overcome the parochial instincts of many teachers who felt , with some justification , that no Whitehall mandarin or local authority bureaucrat could possibly understand the problems or needs of the particular children they were teaching . |
| 3 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 4 | A single horse could easily pull a boat loaded with 60 tons . |
| 5 | It was easier galloping with his head straight , and the horse could now see that the man was quite relaxed . |
| 6 | By April 1927 Nizan could justifiably claim : " My life has a direction . " |
| 7 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |
| 8 | Each side could also retain 18,000 armoured infantry combat vehicles weighing between 6 and 16.5 tonnes , and 12,000 lighter armoured vehicles . |
| 9 | In consequence to this , they ran in four tries to their opponents ' two , but the Shane Park side could well have found a real prospect in winger Graeme McCluskey . |
| 10 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 11 | Adrian Jones ( 2–35 ) was the most successful Merioneth bowler , but his side could only manage 125 off 49 overs in reply . |
| 12 | It is that if speech can be bilaterally represented , then damage to the speech areas of one side could conceivably occur without any ensuing aphasia . |
| 13 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 14 | ‘ Spies on our side could hardly pass unnoticed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 16 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 17 | The paper will focus now on the use of electronic communication in the scientific community — an academic environment where e-mail could well constitute an important source of scholarly correspondence . |
| 18 | Do you remember the mistakes she made , Grant ? mummy , mummy , mummy , mummy could hardly stop laughing because you could go through and she 's older than you , but Aileen thinks you 're wonderful . |
| 19 | If recognition proceeded on a word-by-word basis we would know the beginning and end points of each word , and recognition could indeed take place entirely within the lexicon as these earlier models seem to assume . |
| 20 | The manner in which death came to men , including those innocent of any offence , could be so appalling that the final stroke could only be regarded as a merciful relief . |
| 21 | Intor could also test the life of components in the flux of neutrons — at an energy of 14 MeV — produced by reactions between deuterium and tritium . |
| 22 | I feel the time is now right to respond to local bargaining initiatives , C C T and L M S , with a review of how the research department could best provide their services to the people at the sharp end . |
| 23 | Yet observers of the department could easily be fooled into thinking that a party of radically different philosophy had taken over midway during this period . |
| 24 | THE 150TH anniversary of a Darlington landmark could still be celebrated , despite fears it would go unnoticed . |
| 25 | Goldsmith could merely reply , ‘ It is not our habit to marry Indians ’ . |
| 26 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 27 | What of the claim that I made earlier that no such conception could ever exist without the mental system being holistic ? |
| 28 | The old Gymnasium could then become additional space for Art , while Geography took over the old Library . |
| 29 | Tess could now see him clearly . |
| 30 | There a hybrid service takes place , to which even a confirmed atheist could hardly object . |