Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] but could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members who had achieved the specialist status would retain their ACA or FCA designatory letters but could add others to them . |
| 2 | The Pole was first in the compulsory figures but could finish only third in the original programme , behind both Eldredge , and Vladimir Petrenko of the Soviet Union , in a nine-strong field . |
| 3 | Thus , as the BMA ( 1989 ) points out , ‘ these costs would be beyond the control of the general practitioners but could fall on the budget ’ . |
| 4 | Dried flowers and potpourri are irresistible to small hands but could prove dangerous if sucked or swallowed , so our advice would be to move them out of harm 's way or to do without . |
| 5 | It appears that he did search for 3-dimensional examples but could find none without divisors of zero . |
| 6 | It could not only prove dangerous to expatriates inadvertently breaking local laws but could damage a company 's reputation and its business dealings . |