Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 2 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 3 | not really feeling the need for a conversation , wishing only that I could stay on this bench with him forever . |
| 4 | It was clear that Miss Morgan 's brain had been fully engaged on what she was doing , which was pushing a client 's interest , and that such attention as she could spare from that had been centred on her forthcoming marriage . |
| 5 | Similarly , we get 12 ! =479001 600 and 22=4096 for the edges and a total of 8 ! 3 8 12 ! 2 12 =519 024 039 293 878 272 000 patterns which one could construct in this way . |
| 6 | No one could cavil with that , either then , or in historical retrospect . |
| 7 | But it must have been a temptation in poor working-class communities , where virginity in any case was not sacred , where the stigma against extra-marital sex was weak , and where a prostitute could earn in half an hour what a respectable girl might earn in a week . |
| 8 | Nothing , nothing , could compensate for that . |
| 9 | For it had come , and perhaps , but only perhaps , she could build on that . |
| 10 | This was already happening but he felt neighbourhood help scheme could build on this current goodwill . |
| 11 | He could glean from each category what was happening and , of course at a convenient time , he would test the aircraft itself and then put it on line so that the bombload could be installed before mid-afternoon or early evening . |
| 12 | For instance , if the parties do not want the expert to consider any evidence other than that contained in their submissions , and do not want him to make his own independent investigations , they could stipulate to that effect in the expert clause . |
| 13 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 14 | Today is national Save Our Libraries day and campaigners are warning that many could disappear without more funding . |
| 15 | As it was not yet open , she sat on the step beside a broken box of rotting plums and watched the market traders going about their business : they all seemed to be in their usual mood of precarious good humour which could splinter at any moment into invective and menacing gesture . |
| 16 | What supper preparations could compare with this rare excitement ? |
| 17 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 18 | She would find Mrs McMahon when she came back , and Feargal could make of that what he would . |
| 19 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 20 | My father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip . |
| 21 | Assisting with the creation of a viable payments union in the area that used to be described as the Soviet Union would be the single most important contribution that the Twelve could make to that unstable and dangerous part of the world . |
| 22 | What is the total range of possible adjustments which man theoretically could make to those fluctuations ? |
| 23 | There are various complaints one could make about this division , most of which are justified . |
| 24 | The system seems to work well with staple foods and major components of meals , but problems could arise with some of the portion sizes — for example , calculations for cheese are mostly expressed by single 40 g slice and for nuts anything from 9 halves to 32 kernels . |
| 25 | That these tensions could arise at all was due to the fact that historically , Parliaments were originally called as a matter of discretion by the monarch . |
| 26 | Intuitively , one would guess that abnormalities could arise at many points in such a system and we will now consider severe clinical disorders which bear this out . |
| 27 | However , new inequalities could arise between those patients with the resources and knowledge to seek care outside their district and other patients without such resources and/or knowledge . |
| 28 | What further activities could arise from this exercise ? |
| 29 | erm , and , and , it could arise in many different circumstances , erm one can imagine a situation which wrongly expel erm a name from the market , well whatever the motives , that clearly distorts competition cos there 's one rule , one less competitor in the market , erm it , it 's con , it , it 's conceivable that an article eighty five argument could arise and an expel name could raise a point , whether he succeeds is another matter , but at that point and , and in relation to that he may say well I can sue you because you 've excluded me you 've restricted competition or you 've excluded a group of names |
| 30 | This combination is almost certainly not the only combination that could invade in this kind of way . |