Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke halted trials of the American-style side handled baton saying : ‘ It could fundamentally alter for the worse the style of policing in this country . |
| 2 | Burns triumphantly hijacks this image by extending the golden substance to the borders of manhood — ‘ a man 's a man for a ’ that' , so that one could properly ask for ‘ one man , one vote ’ . |
| 3 | It claims that with such a tax incentive biofuels could eventually account for 5 per cent of overall fuel consumption in the Community . |
| 4 | Roosevelt thought that Korea would be suited to trusteeship for an undefined period , which could perhaps last for as long as forty years . |
| 5 | Managers could perhaps arrange for practitioners to be allocated specific time in which to develop a clinical teaching role , enabling them to improve their skills and abilities and to return to the ward or practice area with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 9 | ‘ You set standards for yourself that a paragon could only reach for . |
| 10 | Like her father Elizabeth could only pay for war by resorting to forced loans , benevolences , and various other devices that proved unpopular in the long run , although , to her credit , she never debased the coinage . |
| 11 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 12 | Well we we often had people coming and asking to use our telephone , because either the telephones were erm all out of order , or you could only dial for emergencies . |
| 13 | ‘ I wept on the night the sidh were last seen at Tara , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ for I knew that they could only sing for one of you , and that there could only be one ruler . |
| 14 | But Miss could only work for the doctors . |
| 15 | ( vi ) If the court should hold that a right to sue in libel must be allowed to a local government authority , then , in the alternative , this court should , in extending the law of libel to permit actions by a local authority , impose particular restrictions or limitations upon the cause of action , namely that a local authority could only sue for libel upon proof of special damage ; and that the council would be required to prove both the falsity of the allegation and that it was published maliciously . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One could only pray for Caroline , given her circumstances . |
| 18 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 19 | But Mrs Rubinstein says she could only look for common themes . |
| 20 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 21 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 22 | ‘ I could scarcely bear for you to believe what you did . ’ |
| 23 | Robbie could scarcely breathe for fury . |
| 24 | He could scarcely see for the blur of tears behind his spectacles , but he bent to investigate a glint of metal among the dust . |
| 25 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the LEF-1 binding site could functionally substitute for the bacterial DNA-bending protein integration host factor ( IHF ) , suggesting that the HMG box moiety could act to create higher order nucleoprotein structures by bringing together widely spaced binding sites . |
| 27 | So parents actually welcomed the possibility of a large family : an extra pair of hands could soon pay for itself by working in the fields as well as ensuring security for the parents ' old age . |
| 28 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 29 | But Rab could not speak for laughing . |
| 30 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |