Example sentences of "[adv] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such problems can quickly develop into the situation revealed among the 20-50 employee size range in the job generation study — and perhaps could be improved by the development of support networks . |
| 2 | There was a kind of tension that perhaps could have been alleviated if they had a couple more people with them , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 4 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 5 | It did not display , perhaps could not have done so , the depth of biblical scholarship that the later encyclical did so much to encourage . |
| 6 | Were not gon na have , were not gon na have quite enough are we this time , I think if perhaps the people who come regularly , erm perhaps could take first , erm I do n't know , you , we have ten , is it ten ? |
| 7 | Our earlier quoted settings , which perhaps could be nudged a little sacrificing fuel burn and noise comfort , produced around 145 knots true air speed at low level , and at height around 155 . |
| 8 | In practice agents do not , or even perhaps could not , have complete and consistent preferences , partly because what they want is often affected by what they believe , and they do not , or could not , have perfect information . |
| 9 | I perhaps could |
| 10 | Those who could afford to lose or perhaps could not … |
| 11 | McRae and Cairncross ( 1984,2 ) argue that the growth of the City originated in the large volume of government borrowing in the eighteenth century to pay for Britain 's foreign wars ; the Industrial Revolution took place almost independently of the City , which thereby showed that it perhaps could survive on its financial wits as a major service centre . |
| 12 | Perhaps could tell us . |
| 13 | Yet he would not — or perhaps could not — take the slightest notice of me . |
| 14 | Penelope hardly knew which to choose after this , but decided on brandy ; she had a vague idea that for women port was a rather low-class drink , since they did not — perhaps could not — appreciate it in the rather ritualistic way that men did . |
| 15 | The all-talking , all-colour films continued to receive more praise than perhaps could have been expected . |
| 16 | The little accessories and pieces of clothing can be adapted as you wish , and perhaps could be made relevant to the birthday boy or girl and guests . |
| 17 | You see my visions for qualitative are slightly different to the four months at the moment , and I feel perhaps could exchange Q P16 for the control procedures to be a longer procedure but to have everything covering the project plan in progress monitoring through to quality control procedures for just the quality . |
| 18 | Yes , but there might be some important differences that we would want to bring up , which we , we perhaps could take a bit further . |
| 19 | There was a time when you could n't go through a week , perhaps could n't even going through a day , without hearing the British National Anthem somewhere . |
| 20 | Er right so erm basically , if we have if we have that stand which erm perhaps could be factory manned |
| 21 | The quality of our clients perhaps could be improved , we do n't have very many large plc clients here in Manchester , the competition , er P W's and K P N G have a better or bigger let me say that , bigger er P L C client base than than we do . |
| 22 | This process was one that we 'd enjoyed the public inquiry process for over fifty years and it would be most helpful if the minister at some point in his er later remarks perhaps could take this opportunity to tell the house that the Conservatives do not intend to side step the public inquiry stage of any future boundary proposals , European or I 'd be glad to give up . |
| 23 | Do you remember when I said er as we were going through I said there were one or two things that you perhaps could help me with ? |
| 24 | THEIR opinions are sought as to what went well and , perhaps could be improved ; what went wrong , and should be changed . |
| 25 | So I perhaps could get |
| 26 | perhaps could be could n't it ? |
| 27 | they perhaps could 've gone towards more |
| 28 | Er if there were to be an exceptions policy the suggestion has been made that certain districts perhaps could be identified er as being a suitable location . |
| 29 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 30 | Baptiste apparently could read her mind . |