Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The target date for establishing the repository was also attacked as unrealistic ; the earliest any burial could begin would be 2010 , the report said , more than three years after the date set by nuclear waste disposal company Nirex , which is to build the repository . |
| 2 | Mr McCallum said that the representatives the Committee could meet would , of course , have no detailed knowledge of the cases , and would only be able to speak in general terms . |
| 3 | The President-elect said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock : ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition , ’ Clinton said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock , where he has lived for 12 of the last 14 years . |
| 5 | According to this the current demands for traffic calming alone in the council could have could amount to between five and ten million pounds . |
| 6 | Among the problems that closed decision-making could bring will be a further lowering of teacher morale . |
| 7 | Even if the buyer were able to do that , the greatest reduction the buyer could achieve would still leave the seller entitled to nominal damages . |
| 8 | The mutual support and warmth that membership of a Christian group could provide will also have played its part . |
| 9 | Nothing that the head could do would make religion pervade the life of the school but it had to be recognized , he believed , that religion does permeate some people 's whole private lives . |
| 10 | The most , it seems , that a genetically acquired character could yield would be an inhibition against behaviours of a certain kind ; what relation could that have to a socially sanctioned prohibition ? |
| 11 | The Swindon success story is n't just on the field … off the field they 've been rebuilding too … the overdraft is below a million … but the world of football the town of Swindon still wonders if the County Ground could cope could afford the premier league … |
| 12 | Does the Minister agree that one of the most positive actions that the Government could take would be to encourage the republics of the former Soviet Union to cut arms expenditure ? |
| 13 | In fact , the maximum a CD could manage would be one frame every seven or eight seconds . |
| 14 | As the Supreme Court had ruled that capping the amount which a candidate could spend would amount to an unconstitutional interference with the right of free speech , the bill aimed to establish voluntary spending limits in return for the receipt of benefits . |
| 15 | The types of question a philosophical perspective could prompt might include : |