Example sentences of "[adv] could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only could Ukraine 's failure to accede to the NPT encourage other nascent nuclear powers , but Russian leaders have said that , until the Ukrainian parliament ratifies START 1 , they will not ratify the January 1993 START 2 treaty , which provides for a further large reduction in the American and Russian nuclear arsenals . |
| 2 | Once they were in place , not only could peasants buy ( rather than just occupy ) their dwelling-places , but also in certain circumstances they could " acquire in full ownership " the land which the charters assigned them . |
| 3 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |
| 4 | There was a simple ordinariness about those brief appearances , during which Marcus enquired about Patrick 's health ; but how long could ordinariness continue and what would happen next ? |
| 5 | And for how long could France be kept isolated ? |
| 6 | CARPHONE OUT OF ORDER , so could girls 17-21 drop me a line- Must like acid , Balearic , deep , etc- Love ’ n ’ stuff , Bri . |
| 7 | ‘ So could I. ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So could I. ’ |
| 9 | Making non-exempt dental patients pay in full for treatment could raise nearly £200m a year ; so could charges of £10 a day for stays in hospital . |
| 10 | So could Sophie , but , not wanting to cast a shadow on Joanna 's happiness , she spoke carefully . |
| 11 | But to be effective these random changes in government expenditure or the money supply , or whatever , would have to be unpredictable ; and that means unpredictable to the government too , for if the government could predict them , then so could others . |
| 12 | You could have been killed by your own foolhardiness and so could others in an attempt to find you . ’ |
| 13 | So could Odette help you ? |
| 14 | So could men offering other professional service . |
| 15 | So could men offering other professional service . |
| 16 | So could malaria parasites be destroyed by assaulting them with free oxygen radicals ? |
| 17 | So could Mary ; they had n't noticed either of us . |
| 18 | So could Tuesday night be Inspector Morse night ? |
| 19 | Thus could pangenesis unify all Darwin 's generation theorizing from gemmules to organisms and on to species , and beyond them the whole tree of life . |
| 20 | The racial and cultural diversity of Amnesty delegations to countries began to expand : no longer could Amnesty representatives be caricatured in pin-striped suits . |
| 21 | Part of this somewhat free accounting was undoubtedly due to much better control : no longer could staff pass off a ‘ do-it-yourself sandwich and pocket the proceeds ; but much of the increase was real and deserved . |
| 22 | No longer could French and Fordham take a back seat advisory role . |
| 23 | How soon could Kirov get his bird off the ground , do you think ? ’ |
| 24 | The impression that several Northampton players were suffering from the effects of last Tuesday 's victory at Leicester was endorsed afterwards , and rarely could Olver , Bayfield and Shelford have had such ineffective games . |
| 25 | Beset by relative impotence in the international arena only rarely could abolitionists provide sustenance from ‘ agitation ’ for antislavery diplomacy or politics as when the 1814 petitions were seen as support for Castlereagh 's negotiations on suppressing the transatlantic slave trade at the peace congress . |
| 26 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 27 | Sister Dannii would often join in and little could parents Carol and Ron have realised just where this extrovert show of singing and dancing would lead to . |
| 28 | How clearly could Obispal see ? |
| 29 | Although the newspaper will not be available until May , please could members apply as soon as possible to help with gauging print quantities . |
| 30 | Mr. Farrer , a white haired man in his fifties was stone deaf but fortunately could lip read , whilst his wife was a really excellent cook . |