Example sentences of "[Wh det] could [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No hard and fast rules governed the setting up and running of the joint authorities , which could simply go for post-sharing and joint-buying or could opt for combined contracting . |
| 2 | The pragmatists , who would like to have it both ways , believe that raising taxes will bring any incipient recovery to a halt , by putting up prices and reducing the spending power of consumers , who already face the prospect of sharply falling pay settlements , which could well dip below inflation this year . |
| 3 | Victorian science , perhaps Victorian intellectual life , had a certain robustness which could easily degenerate into quarrels , and it is a feature of the time that leading workers in the same field were often not on speaking terms : but at least in the BAAS good-tempered discussion was possible . |
| 4 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 5 | Because this study was designed to facilitate the interpretation of recognition results a fundamental distinction was made between information which would be shared by all exemplars of a particular junction ( fixed information ) and that which could potentially differ between exemplars ( variable information ) , the assumption was that the fixed information would be relatively unimportant to recognition performance . |
| 6 | For example , on completing the examinations , a new Fellow can expect upwards of £25,000 a year in Central London which could rapidly increase to £40,000 a year or more . |
| 7 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 8 | However , this represented only outline approval , the Supreme Soviet moving to an article-by-article discussion which could still result in amendments . |