Example sentences of "[noun] could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confronted by the imminent threat of Nazi invasion , and convinced that only by straining every nerve could Britain avoid the fate of France , millions of people came , perhaps for the first time , to perceive the nation not as something to which they were admitted by the grace of kings , but as their own authentic community . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect I 'll walk over this way every day anyway , and if he does come on Saturday could Archie be here , please , to take him down with his bags to the cottage ? ’ |
| 3 | The future of the town 's biggest industry could hinge on the outcome of next month 's local election . |
| 4 | It is possible that the highly artificial experimental condition could hav eplayed a part in increasing the number of HAPCs . |
| 5 | The immediate task , as he saw it , was to open foreign policy up to democratic pressure , so that both the disinterested masses and the interested merchants and manufacturers could concert their influence for peace against the machinations of militaristic bureaucrats and their allies in the aristocracy of finance . |
| 6 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 7 | In response to a shortage of sites for further airfield construction , and also to save on huge construction costs , typically about £500,00 , a scheme was submitted to the Air Ministry whereby aircraft could take-off not on conventional runways , but by means of centrifugal launchers . |
| 8 | The notion of centrifugal launchers was based on the idea that rather than using a long , straight runway , the aircraft could take-off following a circular path around a tower , or possibly a more mobile type of launcher , rather in the manner of ‘ round-the-pole ’ model aircraft . |
| 9 | Outside readers could thumb through the paper and brood on the bread that was doubtless being baked and stashed away by the one-time cultural revolutionaries of It . |
| 10 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 11 | According to the British Tourist Authority that figure could rocket even higher thanks to the lower pound . |
| 12 | If the BBC really was being run in the ‘ national interest ’ , what benefit could competition bring ? |
| 13 | I 'm sure it crossed Martin 's mind that a fall could pendulum him back into the great flake of Eroica . |
| 14 | Countering those who painted wealth as selfishness , she said only by creating wealth could poverty be relieved . |
| 15 | Only one interchange could Liz later remember : ‘ A very good party , a better party than ever , ’ said the recently felled historian Giles , now fully recovered , to which Liz heard herself reply , ‘ Well , it 's as well you made the most of it , for it will be the last . ’ |
| 16 | Although the aim of the Meditations was to stimulate an emotional response to the humanity of Christ in an act of affective piety , this was closely tied to a theological understanding that only through a loving penitential identification with His suffering could man also experience the transfiguring reality of the power of His Resurrection and life . |
| 17 | Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by . |
| 18 | But nowhere in the throng could Sara see Jenny 's fair hair and slender figure . |
| 19 | Asked if he thought an over-emphasis on sport could disadvantage black kids in academic subjects , he answered : |
| 20 | Only in the most favourable circumstances could towns away from the coast or navigable rivers grow to much of a size , a condition emphasised by Adam Smith . |
| 21 | Only in the most pressing circumstances could members be expected to release customers from the binding legal contracts which they had entered into freely . |
| 22 | And what other circumstances could Fen envisage whereby their relationship might have been different ? |
| 23 | On other occasions a guerrilla could snake along such cover on his stomach , his legs pressed flat , knees to the ground as he wriggled closer to enemy positions , or — like one Corporal — he squirmed away from possible capture . |
| 24 | The directors could apprentice or hire out the children and other inmates , and the industrious poor could be rewarded out of any profits from their work , although no part of the money could be spent on liquor . |
| 25 | And then … as always , Hope could lull himself sooner or later into a mood of self-satisfaction at the prospect of a future rich , secure , free , and attainable … |
| 26 | He had a large place , with as many modern conveniences as a sandhole like Dead Rat could offer , but it was n't what someone with his skills could rate in a PZ . |
| 27 | With infrasound , their auditory maps could extent for hundreds of kilometres around their home . |
| 28 | 10 unc What values could x have ? |
| 29 | Only in towns and at a few other places could trains going in opposite directions pass . |
| 30 | What difference could Barling 's death make to Berlin ? ’ |