Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as the world was politically , and militarily , if not economically , permeated with British influence , school geography could safely and fruitfully explore even the most unlikely regions . |
| 2 | But it is wishful thinking to believe that these complementary methods could instantly and completely replace the use of animals . |
| 3 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 4 | Similarly , David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan referred to using headhunters when he had an eye on a specific person within another company : a headhunter could discreetly and confidentially find out if that person might consider moving , before the name of the interested party , i.e. Grand Metropolitan , need be revealed . |
| 5 | Newson-Smith and Hirsch concluded that social workers could safely and reliably assess attempted suicide patients . |
| 6 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
| 7 | There , a gale of competition swept Britain from a Soviet-style queueing system to one in which people could quickly and conveniently borrow as much as they were able to service , from any of a wide choice of lenders . |
| 8 | In Canada , for example , the Auditor General Act of 1977 requires the Auditor General to report to the House of Commons when : ‘ money has been expended without due regard to economy or efficiency , or satisfactory procedures have not been established to measure and report the effectiveness of programs , where such procedures could appropriately and reasonably be implemented ’ . |
| 9 | Research Councils could easily and cheaply monitor this part of the research programme by the online searching of bibliographic databases . |