Example sentences of "could [adv] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need was to pick out those people who could skilfully and accurately follow instructions and do low-level clerical and administrative jobs for the metropolitan country . |
| 2 | Similarly , David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan referred to using headhunters when he had an eye on a specific person within another company : a headhunter could discreetly and confidentially find out if that person might consider moving , before the name of the interested party , i.e. Grand Metropolitan , need be revealed . |
| 3 | If the right hon. Gentleman goes back to the incidents to which he was referring , he will find that they were not ones that could naturally and immediately be followed by a statement . |
| 4 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
| 5 | She would have liked to sleep again but found she could not and so she had to get up . |
| 6 | To acknowledge that she could not and never would ask Maggie for the mothering that she would give to her own mother . |
| 7 | Research Councils could easily and cheaply monitor this part of the research programme by the online searching of bibliographic databases . |
| 8 | There , a gale of competition swept Britain from a Soviet-style queueing system to one in which people could quickly and conveniently borrow as much as they were able to service , from any of a wide choice of lenders . |
| 9 | But it is wishful thinking to believe that these complementary methods could instantly and completely replace the use of animals . |
| 10 | In Canada , for example , the Auditor General Act of 1977 requires the Auditor General to report to the House of Commons when : ‘ money has been expended without due regard to economy or efficiency , or satisfactory procedures have not been established to measure and report the effectiveness of programs , where such procedures could appropriately and reasonably be implemented ’ . |
| 11 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 12 | Sharing between us our repertoire , we turned up two comedy songs , But I could n't and Just in the old sweet way . |
| 13 | But she knew it could n't and so she relaxed , exulting in the magic freedom of now . |
| 14 | That 's and he could n't and then mount this sort of operation . |
| 15 | It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking . |
| 16 | In early computers , in particular those of the first generation , little distinction was made between architecture and implementation ; the architecture was whatever could reliably and economically be implemented in hardware . |
| 17 | The Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee has proposed that a committee should be established for each circuit : ‘ we remain convinced that these could inexpensively and effectively contribute to securing improvements across the country in the co-ordination and standard of legal services . ’ |
| 18 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 19 | A great variety of techniques for controlling insects are now available , and , sensibly co-ordinated , they could safely and effectively keep pests under control . |
| 20 | Newson-Smith and Hirsch concluded that social workers could safely and reliably assess attempted suicide patients . |
| 21 | So long as the world was politically , and militarily , if not economically , permeated with British influence , school geography could safely and fruitfully explore even the most unlikely regions . |