Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The least she could do in return was to meet him halfway . |
| 2 | All he could do in advance was check that all was in order , give brief instructions and let them get on with it . |
| 3 | In a move to freeze about two-thirds of all the money in circulation , short-term seven-day banking deposits worth about $2,000 million were frozen on Jan. 1 , and the amount which investors could withdraw in cash was limited to 1,000,000 australs , the option being to accept repayment of savings in 10-year dollar bonds . |
| 4 | Lenin 's confidence that the soviets would provide the country with a revolutionary form of government that could function without bureaucracy was proved ill-founded almost as soon as they began their work . |
| 5 | All I could manage in return was a sickly smile and a feeble , ‘ Thank you , Ma'am . ’ |
| 6 | Propositions limiting the length of time which politicians could serve in office were adopted in California , Colorado and Kansas . |
| 7 | He had devoted Sunday evening to making a plan of action and knew exactly what he and everyone else he could press into service was going to be doing this morning . |
| 8 | A SCOTTISH scientist is at the forefront of research which could lead to cannabis being used to treat certain brain-related disorders , including Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 9 | Now , in the conditions of 1920 in Soviet Russia , to write about all those things that industry could supply to agriculture was the ‘ music of the future ’ and the reality was that coercion was the main means of provisioning the towns . |
| 10 | Whenever Harris talks of his human rights work , he repeatedly states than none of it could continue without Amnesty 's campaigning — the thousands and thousands of letters landing on the desk of the Guatemalan President , the faxes , the questions in Parliament . |
| 11 | A clear pattern was emerging and in 1930 Daugherty could say of RKO 's Framed that it offered ‘ cafes and apartments after the presently accepted modern mode ’ and ‘ police autos whining down crowded boulevards , whoopee scenes , police stuff at headquarters , third degree etc. , raids and shooting in equal number and of an equal excellence to many already exhibited ’ . |
| 12 | All I could say in reply was : ‘ What for ? ’ |