Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a public company wishes to raise £1m , it could seek to do so by an issue of a series of , say £1 , £10 , £100 , or £1000 debentures , each representing a separate debt totalling in aggregate £1m . |
| 2 | From 1937 male teachers could opt to take only one-third of the lump sum due to them on retirement so that an annuity would potentially be available to their widows ( Gosden , 1972 , p. 148 ) . |
| 3 | Oxford students succeeded , in Fox v Stirk [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 7 , in establishing that they could be resident in their university constituency and thus entitled to qualify to vote notwithstanding that they were also resident in their home constituencies and could qualify to vote there alternatively but this was on the basis that they had a ‘ residence ’ in Oxford where they spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 4 | I tore along the beach like a maniac , looking for some kind of boat I could borrow to get away . |
| 5 | But to what extent are the sentencing ( and other ) practices of these courts responsible for the crisis , in the sense that they could choose to do otherwise , rather than being the victims of external factors ( such as the crime rate ) over which they have no control ? |
| 6 | In 1990 , men aged 65 years could expect to spend around six months of their 14.2 years of remaining life expectancy in residential care ; for women of the same age this figure was 1.1 remaining years , an amount greater both absolutely and as a proportion of total remaining life expectancy ( table III ) . |
| 7 | Both came from peasant stock of considerable longevity , but the presence of Nicolae 's mother-in-law in her late nineties was evidence that Elena Ceauşescu could expect to live well into the twenty-first century — and she certainly had plans to be in charge then too . |
| 8 | Even after paying for the ferry crossing and a good meal on French soil , they could expect to save more than £800 between them . |
| 9 | That is a good sign , and it could expect to do quite well — but the Greens and Ecologists face the problem under the French electoral system of turning votes into seats . |
| 10 | In Corfe Castle women employed in the local out-work manufacture of knitting stockings could expect to earn only around a shilling or one shilling and sixpence ( 5-7½p ) a week . |
| 11 | So with a daily deficit of 1,000 calories you could expect to shed around two pounds a week . |
| 12 | Whatever might have been the prosaic reason for his initial posting to Masai District , an officer who stayed long enough and had a sufficiently striking personality could expect to become locally famous not only for his love of the Masai but also for the love they bore for him . |
| 13 | It is difficult to see how unrepresented claimants who fare so badly in tribunals of first instance could expect to fare better at the appellate level ; indeed representation has increased considerably over the past few years . |
| 14 | Today we could expect to find perhaps a dozen employed ; but then , only 14 were retired in the broadest sense . |
| 15 | it was all I could do to get home . |
| 16 | She was tempted to ignore any suggestion that he made , but the orange flames that flickered in the grate looked invitingly warm , and it was more than she could do to stay away . |
| 17 | The studio was shaded with heavy blue curtains and as he drew them back so that she could see to read more easily , a shaft of sunlight struck across her hair . |
| 18 | There was no point in trying to invent a story , because under these circumstances no made-up story could begin to sound even remotely plausible . |
| 19 | look in early nineteen forty eight where we are , wh where the land reform process had taken the Communist Party tt and then we could begin to look forward to where policy was going to go from there in terms of the military , political , economic , ideological future and what I 'm going to do today to , to begin with anyway is , is to just consider where we are and where it is we 're gon na go and in a sense we could , it might be helpful to , to put ourselves back in a position of being the central committee again . |
| 20 | Only political units which were small and remote from the international conflicts which agitated the greater powers , as were the Swiss cantons and some of the city-states of Germany and Italy , could hope to dispense permanently with some more or less effective form of kingship . |
| 21 | Many directors continued in office long after they could hope to participate effectively . |
| 22 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 23 | They could hope to learn later where Berowne had spent his last day on earth . |
| 24 | In our original study , we assumed that Mr Major could hope to win roughly one by-election in three in Tory seats . |
| 25 | But before Lowe could hope to get there , he had a party to survive . |
| 26 | It was , however , probably the best that Roosevelt could hope to achieve politically , and it became the basis of extensions in the post-war years . |
| 27 | If the answer to that is yes , then we proceed to discuss the criteria and the panel could proceed to report accordingly on those . |
| 28 | Instead I smiled sweetly and asked if he could try to explain so that I could understand . |
| 29 | Bursting into tears , she turned and ran back through the wood , pushing blindly through the ferns , stumbling , hot and panting , determined to get away from Nicky so that she could try to think straight . |
| 30 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |