Example sentences of "[adv] could [adv] [vb infin] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Such a change could also bring into the development plan eligibility net a large number of small farms in the French LFAs which hitherto could not qualify because their income levels were too low .
2 But we still could n't tell whether he could sing or not .
3 After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything .
4 He hurled himself over in bed to study the writing under the lamp , still could n't decide whether it was Jim 's or Bella 's , ate a piece of milk chocolate , and then six Codeines , because he had forgotten to bring his sleeping pills .
5 I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre .
6 A DEC spokesman said that everything was in the early stages , and that he would n't like to comment on numbers — not even the 6,000 proposed lay-offs , although software engineering staff would be among the casualties , he also could n't say if they would be part of the wave of redundancies mentioned above .
7 She absolutely could not move because her level of arousal was so high she had no performance her performance being walking in that case
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