Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In abolishing the marital rape exemption , Parliament could presumably seek an undertaking that this be done from the Attorney General who has general superintendence over the discharge of the Director 's functions . |
| 2 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 3 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 4 | Proposals to re-classify the ancient track crossing National Trust commonland as a ‘ byway open to all traffic ’ has brought growing fears that Farnham Lane could eventually become a link to the new A3 Hindhead bypass . |
| 5 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 6 | The Abbey National was less sanguine : ‘ This could effectively put a seal on the property market to the end of the year , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 7 | There are also fears that a genetic mutation — over which there could be no control — could suddenly produce a GEM with some nasty trick up its sleeve . |
| 8 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 9 | While a wealth tax would be difficult and cumbersome to administer , it could perhaps form a part of a total or partial replacement to existing income taxes . |
| 10 | It usually starts because a much-loved mare is no longer able to work under saddle but could perhaps produce a foal . |
| 11 | I think there are a variety of ways Mr Chairman , in which our environmental strategy , when it 's formulated , could be publicised and that 's one way forward , and I wonder whether director could perhaps incorporate an argument for or against that , i , in , in , i , in the paper that Councillor has suggested . |
| 12 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 13 | If I could perhaps have a picture my father painted ? ’ |
| 14 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 15 | There were no recognised Departments of Education offering a full initial teaching qualification in any community language ( other than English or Welsh ) at the time of the LITE survey : bilingual school leavers with the determination to promote their language in the British school system could perhaps take a degree by treating their home language as a foreign language where such courses existed , but the available Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) courses could allow them to qualify fully only if they selected a main teaching subject other than their chosen language . |
| 16 | It seems that the church could perhaps take a lead in looking at the implications of suicide , and at possible ways of providing services to try and prevent it . |
| 17 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 18 | Shock , but after a while their limbs 'll start trembling and they become very confused , now a person , a perfectly nice person , oh , you know , always very helpful and kind can suddenly become aggressive and they really do become aggressive and , if they go to violence their strength , oh where they get it from god only knows , but they could literally throw a person across the room . |
| 19 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 20 | That minute could literally save a child 's life . ’ |
| 21 | By that he meant an individual could only commit an offence under the sub-section if , inter alia , he had actively sought the information proscribed ; receipt of unsolicited information was not sufficient . |
| 22 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 23 | Dublin was not an industrialised city like Manchester or Birmingham ; the city 's industries of brewing and distilling could only absorb a fraction of the labour force . |
| 24 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 25 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 26 | A nuclear war could only last a matter of days and would be fought with the weapons that were in the hands of the military at the time ; there would be no question of re-supply , so British operational independence would not be jeopardized by buying US missiles . |
| 27 | In Harris v Wyre Forest DC ; Smith v Bush [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords rejected an argument that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report prevented a duty of care arising in tort and therefore fell outside the Act ; applying s13 , the House held that the disclaimer was subject to the Act and could only prevent a duty arising if it satisfied the test of reasonableness . |
| 28 | Yorath reports no injury worries and he was further heartened last weekend when Rumania , who thrashed the Welsh 5–1 in May , could only manage a draw at home to Czechoslovakia . |
| 29 | MacPherson himself could only manage a closing 75 and Cottrell 's Cheshire team mate Carl Nowicki finished with a 70 to claim a famous victory . |
| 30 | I could only manage a whisper . |