Example sentences of "could [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1914 , the Germans had found that they could conduct most of their correspondence with village headmen in Swahili , and the British also found this a great advantage . |
| 2 | Furthermore , a limited number of staff could service all of the machines . |
| 3 | In fact he could have been me , except that he had had the initiative to ask the landladies if he could stay cheaper by foregoing the second ‘ B ’ — the breakfast . |
| 4 | However , it 's definitely not advisable to carry out this procedure yourself , as static electricity could damage some of the ICs . |
| 5 | Therefore differences in the timing of retinoic acid exposure can independently alter processes of growth and regional identity in the hindbrain , which could explain much of the phenotypic variation in retinoic acid-treated embryos . |
| 6 | You could explain that to me . |
| 7 | The second half of Darwin 's Descent of Man was devoted to sexual selection , because Darwin thought that this was the only process that could explain some of humankind 's unique features such as our loss of body hair . |
| 8 | A most interesting finding of this article is that plant growth is irregular , which could explain some of the apparent errors of the instrument designed here . |
| 9 | She wondered how she could explain this to him if he did n't see it already . |
| 10 | Einstein could explain this in quantum terms . |
| 11 | There was no mention of hair , though Rufus knew hair could persist intact for far more years than those bones had been in the grave , and there was nothing about clothing . |
| 12 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 13 | In a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission , the engineers , Donald Prevatte and David Lochbaum , say the problem , concerning the inadequacy of back-up cooling for spent fuel pools , could affect one-third of the US 's 109 nuclear plants . |
| 14 | Pregnancy could affect each of the processes involved in gall stone formation . |
| 15 | Ultimately just another conquest to lump in with the rest , so your score-sheet could remain unblemished by failure . ’ |
| 16 | For much of the population , numbed by defeat , the reforms were initially tangential to efforts to maintain a basic standard of life , but while the reforms themselves were accepted with considerable resignation , none could remain untouched by their effects for long . |
| 17 | Despite the discrepancy , a Halifax spokesman said : ‘ House prices could remain stable during 1993 . ’ |
| 18 | No one could remain unaffected by it . |
| 19 | In other words , if you estimate that your skin could remain exposed for 10 minutes without burning , SPF 15 allows you 15 × 10 minutes , or 150 minutes exposure without burning . |
| 20 | In the same month it was announced that the abandonment of the trams would take place over two years , in stages , by groups of routes working from West to East , so that Charlton Works and the nearby tram graveyard at Penhall Road could remain open until the last stage . |
| 21 | And that is what I wanted then , to feel I could remain safe from a future and past , safe from time . |
| 22 | Then I could remain sane about it , by thinking I 'm being stupid : I 've really got the best world . |
| 23 | Reporting back to the Supreme Council on June 28 , Prunskiene quoted Gorbachev as confiding that the Lithuanians and the Soviets should be able to interpret the moratorium in whatever way suited them , so that honour could remain satisfied on both sides . |
| 24 | The study of the English economy in the late Middle Ages shows that there were wide discrepancies of fortune between different parts of the country , and that any attempt to understand its development must take into consideration not only such general factors as population change and the effects of war but also the immediate local factors which determined why one area could outstrip another in prosperity or decline . |
| 25 | Any creature that could eat hundreds of rugby balls could swallow us in one go . ’ |
| 26 | Consider what you could eat more of , as well as what you should cut down on . |
| 27 | Commonsense told them that anyone could eat dozens of apples a day without suffering any permanent ill effect . |
| 28 | Otherwise , and particularly if she lived in Edinburgh , she could answer one of the advertisements for a housemaid ; or she might , increasingly as the century wore on , try for a coveted job as shop assistant ; she might enter one of the monotonous and repetitive unskilled industrial jobs in say paper-bag making ; or use her school training in needlework to become a dressmaker . |
| 29 | One could answer this by suggesting that here we are on the borderline between social and physiological laws . |
| 30 | They could compare that with the way our milk is delivered in bottles today , or sold in cartons or plastic bottles in the supermarket . |