Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | That in itself did not necessarily matter ; experience had shown that Scotland could successfully cope with a series of minorities . |
2 | Many could successfully survive in a harsh environment , and their bodies enabled them to evolve into larger and more diverse creatures . |
3 | To ensure formal consideration on a future agenda , a recommendation by Mexico was adopted calling for exclusive allocations for both amateur and broadcasting services around 7MHz which , it is hoped , could eventually result in a common worldwide amateur 40m band . |
4 | Alcide de Gasperi was particularly interested in the EPC proposal which was initially vague but could eventually lead to a common parliament , a joint foreign policy and a full ‘ common market ’ . |
5 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |
6 | It 's a mild type , but if not treated it could suddenly develop into an acute form with increased coughing , loss of appetite , fever and fast breathing . ’ |
7 | HARD-working Tie Rack designers could perhaps do with a rest . |
8 | I mean , like Dave said , I mean , alright we could perhaps do with a superstore , but not the . |
9 | Yeah they have to be deep littered all winter but they could perhaps do with a clean though that 's not bad in there . |
10 | No the , the principle of it is good , we could all do with a bit more muscle building than we have . |
11 | There were large and small holes and we could only go through a hole once . |
12 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
13 | But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’ |
14 | Martin Cruz Smith has an intriguing hero to play with ; if he could only Strive For a Decisive Upswing in Plot Design , his mastery of the chilly thriller would be complete . |
15 | Enlightened anticlerical views could only spread among a fairly small educated élite and in Russia , in spite of some ultraconservatives , it was the ruling class which was alienated from the church rather than the mass of the people . |
16 | Rosemary Roche , 35 , of Gillingham , Kent , endured five years of pain and for a while could only walk with a stick , said Deputy High Court Judge Morrison . |
17 | It was successfully argued that the phrase " is or " could only relate to a customer when the soliciting is taking place . |
18 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
19 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
20 | Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities . |
21 | In Kober 's pianos the check could only function as a hammer rest and not as a true check because the hammer pointed towards the player . |
22 | ‘ I could only speak with a muffle . ’ |
23 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
24 | Indifferently magnificent , it sneered back at my eager camera lens , which could only fit in a pitiful few floors . |
25 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
26 | The appetite for power these immense forces display worried Stead , and he argued their style could only lead to an autocratic national system with a minister of central government at the apex . |
27 | Here he was , a friar , a priest , a man sworn to chastity , feeling twinges of jealousy about someone he could only claim as a friend . |
28 | So the citizen could only flourish as a person by acting as a part or member of the whole , the community . |
29 | Hareven , in her discussion of early industrial society in America ( 1978 ) , suggests that this type of exchange was more common than sharing households , but that it could only operate on a reciprocal basis . |
30 | Despite the fact that Bill was in his mid-fifties and had a chronic heart condition , which meant he could only play for a maximum of five minutes a match , it was a good move on Fred 's part as the pub owned the cricket pitch at the rear and naturally , as captain , Bill felt obliged to hand it over to the club , and so ‘ The Tip ’ was born . |