Example sentences of "could [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is ready , he says , to consider Syria 's ‘ vital interests ’ in Lebanon , and by that he appears to mean that its army could stay in the Beka'a Valley , provided it is clearly intended for defence against Israeli attack and not for interference in Lebanon 's internal affairs . |
| 2 | I could stay in the hotel , ’ I said . |
| 3 | I could stay in the house and be marked as frightened , or I could do battle with the elements , making my way to the family as usual . |
| 4 | We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens , dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm . |
| 5 | ‘ Wow , ’ Wayne said , obviously wishing that he could stay in the front and eavesdrop . |
| 6 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 7 | Oh , says I , aye , I says , you could stay in the village . |
| 8 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Mandeville called , ‘ I should be grateful if you could stay in the hall . |
| 9 | Well , you could stay in the spare room over with me , out in the bedroom in the back there , for thirty dollars a night ? ’ |
| 10 | Because of fuel problems each patrol could stay in the air no more than two hours , and only relatively slow and cumbersome two-seater planes could be used . |
| 11 | During the process the bronze was bathed in a solution of zinc salts and , unless it was carefully washed afterwards , some of these zinc salts could persist in the remaining patina on the surface . |
| 12 | When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup . |
| 13 | Our playmates swam quietly to the edge of the pool , while Lorne and I began to climb out until signalled that we could remain in the water if we wished . |
| 14 | The answer is straightforward : the exchange-rate mechanism would continue , run by the enlarged chamber of governors , and all currencies that were not in stage three could remain in the exchange-rate mechanism or outside it , depending on what they chose . |
| 15 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 16 | The compensation package offered is usually based on a local salary , which , when converted into sterling , is considerably higher than the workers could earn in the UK . |
| 17 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 18 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 19 | Praxsys could deliver in the fourth quarter : early 1993 is more likely . |
| 20 | While , understandably , this mild recommendation was all they could make in the circumstances , there is no disguising the fact that , for the next five years at least , non-advanced further education in Wales badly needs the infusion of more resources . |
| 21 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 22 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 23 | So the parable envisages a situation that could arise in the early Church and advises that human judgment makes mistakes . |
| 24 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 25 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 26 | Then there are others who are satisfied with superficial information because they feel that if more is revealed then conflict could arise in the family . |
| 27 | All are agreed , however , that it is the nature of the ‘ matter ’ which is important , and it was recognised early in the history of the Hague Conventions on Civil Procedure that some civil or commercial matters could arise in the context of an administrative jurisdiction . |
| 28 | We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system . |
| 29 | A structural appraisal of the building identified a number of potentially serious defects which could arise in the event of fire . |
| 30 | The chairman of an authority 's education committee could find himself chairing a board of management where serious conflict of interest could arise in the future . |