Example sentences of "could [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could Spanish owners of fishing vessels force the government to allow the vessels to fish in British waters pending a decision as to whether they were entitled to do so under European Community law ? |
| 2 | As part of the card 's software , there is a DOS sequencer , to drive a MIDI keyboard or synth ( a MIDI adapter cable is available as an option ) , more Windows 3.1 sound mixers than anyone could possible want , a delectable sound sampler , and a utility to allow the more serious-minded user to add both synthesised music and sampled ( digitised ) sounds to presentation packages . |
| 3 | If cars could have images , so could political candidates . |
| 4 | Thus could economic statehood be achieved for the economic union . |
| 5 | Is it not time for an initiative to make local authorities hand over their property to housing associations , and could regional ombudsman be set up for that purpose ? |
| 6 | So could regional loyalties . |
| 7 | So could regional loyalties . |
| 8 | Could European peace be guaranteed by disarmament ? |
| 9 | Yet is this really so — could European dominion , and the subsequent dominion of America , really be at the beginning of a decline ? |
| 10 | Only then could theoretical speculation take place . |
| 11 | Nor could jumpy Orrell cope with the efficiency of the steady , unflurried Pilgrim , the full-back , who kicked Wasps ' penalty goals besides putting in the delicate chip that set up the try for Oti . |
| 12 | If cases were selected for a particular disposal at random , Galloway suggested , how could proper consideration be being given to the welfare of the child in every case ? |
| 13 | Could hon. Members calm down . |
| 14 | How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ? |
| 15 | Could French fears of , and hostility towards , Germany be removed ? |
| 16 | COULD French wine , long the traditional favourite among drinkers , be losing its premier status ? |
| 17 | How could lesser mortals fail to feel inadequate in comparison ? |
| 18 | Only by ensuring that safety and reliability were maintained could public confidence be restored . |
| 19 | Just as the slums , squalor and muddle of towns and cities could be overcome by planning , so could social evils . |
| 20 | But where could social workers obtain skills which would qualify them to teach social work ? |
| 21 | And could British Rail be sold to British Rail ? |
| 22 | On the other hand , could mere negligence , or carelessness , or innocent action , be enough to prove liability under such a rule ? |
| 23 | Only after Coleridge returned from Shrewsbury , freed at last from immediate financial worry , could vague hopes be transformed into clearer intentions . |
| 24 | The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were . |
| 25 | For example , are further increases in protectionism inevitable , or could developed countries instead solve the internal problems caused by North-South trade through tax , training and redistributive measures ? |
| 26 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 27 | , writes : BETWEEN the outbreak of war and the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries , could ordinary people still go there for holidays if they liked ? |
| 28 | If we , with our feeble skills and instruments had brought back ten men from the seeming dead , I understand all did get well , what could Almighty God do if He had a mind to do something similar ? |
| 29 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 30 | How could natural selection favour an increase in its frequency ? |