Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong direction could make him more disciplined and accurate , but Peter Hickton was not well placed to bully George Birkitt . |
| 2 | An economic recession could throw it right off course . |
| 3 | The spirit of 1992 and European unity could get you on a freebie to the Himalayas . |
| 4 | An image consultant such as Public Persona could point you in the right direction . |
| 5 | In the face of such evidence it was a little difficult for at least some of the non-poor to accept that such conditions should continue and that free enterprise could bring them to an end largely unassisted . |
| 6 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could help me . |
| 7 | The wrong policy could cost you more than a pocketful of dreams . |
| 8 | But as the law stands , Jamie Blandford knows only high treason could stop him inheriting his father 's title … and the Blenheim estate . |
| 9 | Well , perhaps only the new Foreign Secretary could sell it to Mrs Thatcher , and he will have his own notions of ripe time . |
| 10 | A trained monkey could operate them new machines — or a woman . ’ |
| 11 | If a wet stone could smell it would smell like this . |
| 12 | A social worker could sum it up as : ‘ Mr Bloggs is immature , overcompensating by asserting his status in the family . |
| 13 | She knew by the expression on his face that he was hers , and she was confident her sexual ability could keep him happy until she was ready to move on . |
| 14 | I wondered how an English family could manage it . |
| 15 | Or or or the vice chairman could do it on alto clarinet and give somebody else a clarinet part to play . |
| 16 | It was firmly fastened , of course , so that no floppy monster could flip it up and wander underground for lunch . |
| 17 | The average car could pull it . |
| 18 | In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only though the could say it . |
| 19 | Telling a man the simple truth could reduce him to a wreck , so that , on the whole , she held her punches and her tongue , knowing how deeply she could wound . |
| 20 | Outside Athelstan could hear him shouting orders , the sound of running feet and the clash of arms . |
| 21 | Too large an increase in personal taxation could lose them votes and deny them further ministerial office . |
| 22 | The look frozen on Richmann 's dead face mirrored his shock that a mere woman could outshoot him . |
| 23 | ‘ It may be that future conversation could benefit us both , ’ he said . |
| 24 | An outside facilitator could help them examine and redesign their actions just as a tennis coach might do . |
| 25 | Maybe the European Community could send us one , then we could watch it . ’ |
| 26 | But his ability to avoid any obvious stereotype could make him an attractive candidate for Labour members worried that the leadership election is being orchestrated to Mr Smith 's advantage . |
| 27 | Marx nonetheless believed that an external reality did exist , and that human consciousness could understand it . |
| 28 | ‘ If we push closer than this , any sudden warp-eddy could impact us … ’ |
| 29 | This speedy interface could save you many hours of system development time . |
| 30 | The owner of a large herd could use it as leverage over poorer neighbours who depended on his goodwill to hire out cattle during the agricultural seasons . |