Example sentences of "[adj] could [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who but the English could put together two such unwelcome words and make such an appropriate term of them ? |
| 2 | It had a demoralising effect on us , and we wondered how long this could go on . |
| 3 | This could go on till morning , it was ridiculous . |
| 4 | I wished this could go on for ever but I realised that all too soon I would have to return . |
| 5 | Pale , cold , clammy , yes , this is the opposite , you 've got all the signs and symptoms here of a stroke , now if , this could go on with and erm if somebody , if something is n't done very quickly with this compression the person has still got this bleed , or clot in the head and eventually they just kind of all come up into the foetus position , literally all goes spastic , all these spastic movements right , you finished writing ? |
| 6 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 7 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 8 | This could go on for hours . |
| 9 | The problem is that it would be very hard to justify the cost : much of this could go on after students arrived , and the course modified as it went along . |
| 10 | This could go on forever so I 'll shut up now . |
| 11 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 12 | The receiver unit needs to face the business end of mouse , but if your desk is as cluttered as mine you will quickly see how problematical this could end up being . |
| 13 | Having set the process of achieving an ever closer economic union once more in motion , almost inevitably concern arose in some quarters over the possibility that this could spill over into a closer political union . |
| 14 | This could fit in well with the growing concern with money management now being shown by the National Association of Citizens ' Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 15 | The CEGB said that for Hinkley C this could total about £200 million , but ‘ since no large commercial nuclear power station in the world has yet been decommissioned , present cost estimates must be regarded as uncertain' . |
| 16 | Taken over an average hard disk this could give around a 15 per cent saving in space . |
| 17 | This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them . |
| 18 | This could explain why some babies only have colic in the evening , when the morning feed reaches the intestines and the bacteria that live there begin to feed on the undigested lactose . |
| 19 | But there is still concern over the definition of inside information , which the bill requires to be ‘ precise and specific ’ ; this could leave out general information that is equally price-sensitive . |
| 20 | If the centre parties were seen to be self-interested in blocking the formation of a government through their insistence on a deal to introduce electoral reform then this could reflect badly on them in the election so cutting back their seats — and the prospect for proportional representation . |
| 21 | Among the dangers that this could bring about would be the emergence of small concessional states governed by the militias . ’ |
| 22 | This could involve both small changes in the relative orientation of GH5 and DNA , and structural changes in the DNA itself . |
| 23 | In concrete terms this could involve gradually introducing incidental activities of fetching and returning materials and taking messages , until the pupil is finally able to take total responsibility for getting about unaided and coping with all aspects of the environment on the school campus . |
| 24 | This could mean either a uniform , across-the-board depreciation of a greater depreciation against some currencies than others , i.e. some currencies in effect appreciate against the deficit country . |
| 25 | In the late eighties , this could mean almost unlimited credit , in some cases the facility to borrow as much as four times their annual income to buy a house . |
| 26 | All of them knew that this could mean only one thing : Aenarion was going to draw the Sword of Khaine , take up the Widowmaker , to wield the ultimate and deadly weapon . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're right , ’ she said as she realised this could mean only one thing . |
| 28 | And that if you open the doors to compensation whenever er this sort of thing arose , then th , this could mean very substantial expenditure for the Health Service . |
| 29 | This could change though , he added , if UK sales flatten . |
| 30 | This could cost up to £1 billion , defeating much of the purpose of the VAT increase as a revenue-earning measure . |