Example sentences of "could [verb] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today we could expect to find perhaps a dozen employed ; but then , only 14 were retired in the broadest sense . |
| 2 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 3 | In those pieces that are workable for both groups , it seems perfectly plausible that the string and wind ensembles could have played simultaneously the statement in the first entrée that the bride and groom are led by the violins and oboes suggests as much or they may have played in alternation . |
| 4 | Without the Soviet threat American domestic constraints could have weakened further the drive for a new American-led international economic order . |
| 5 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 6 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 7 | In spite of all its anomalies , it is difficult to see what other system could have retained even the present small population . |
| 8 | The Commission could have put forward the first of these amendments separately from the Fifth Directive , and may have chosen its course in order to revive consideration of the Fifth Directive as a whole . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that the Templars were guardians of a secret that could have rocked both the French throne and the entire foundations of Christianity . |
| 10 | I could have found exactly the same clothes and expressions anywhere in the United Kingdom that night of course . |
| 11 | I could have quoted basically the same words from almost any Jehovah 's Witness tract , but I choose this book because a reputable publisher ( Pan Books Ltd ) saw fit to publish it , despite a very large number of errors which would quickly have been spotted if an unemployed biology graduate , or indeed undergraduate , had been asked to glance through the manuscript . |
| 12 | But furious Tories say the authority could have thrown away a golden opportunity . |
| 13 | 1031 for the Rome visit may be a scribal error for 1026 ( MXXVI having become MXXXI ) , for as Cnut was certainly in Rome in March 1027 his journey could have started late the previous year . |
| 14 | Although it hardly seemed fair racing a man at least 15 years our senior , who could resist going just a little faster every time we saw his face contorted with exertion , glaring up at us like Charles Laughton in Mutiny On The Bounty ? |
| 15 | Eva could go walking there the weekends she was free , capturing the beauty of the beeches or a snow scene in detailed photographs , a hobby she had first taken up in Africa . |
| 16 | in Newham , that could mean shedding over a quarter of its section eleven teachers . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's no one in my foster family who could afford to give even a few pounds away , ’ he said , ‘ and I certainly do n't have any rich friends . |
| 18 | The king was fortunate : he had plenty from whom to choose , and he could afford to take only the best into his service . |
| 19 | Meade cites the membership of the ‘ little company of four men and four women who , in 1379 , could afford to provide only a candle to burn during the daily mass at the church of St Nicholas , Great Yarmouth ’ . |
| 20 | On Sept. 16 Rubia had explained the move to establish a new party " as a strategy that could help bring together the two factions of [ FORD ] " . |
| 21 | PROF Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 22 | PROFESSOR Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 23 | Channel 3 played safe with a re-run of Taggart ( ITV ) , which I suppose you could argue showed only the Scots in a bad light . |