Example sentences of "[conj] could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once all water which contains or could on present trends contain , 50 mg/litre nitrate is designated ‘ vulnerable ’ , steps would have to be taken to reduce nitrate pollution . |
| 2 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 3 | He that in Obedience to this Command of God , subdued , tilled and sowed any part of it , thereby annexed to it something that was his Property , which another had not Title to , nor could without injury take from him . |
| 4 | So at that time that could of been taken into the context of , or one anyway , going to the same place |
| 5 | But ehm , they just do n't know what it was , it 's just one of those things that could of happened , they taken . |
| 6 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 7 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 8 | Could of had a bit of mash and could of had a bit of mashed potato and couple of eggs or something . |
| 9 | We would of done the same sort of thing and could of gone in to see the planning officer but I just , I just assumed you know that , that life was fair but of course there 's no justice in this life |
| 10 | The expansionists acknowledge that the great worry about devaluation is that it will be inflationary and could at best be self-defeating or , at worst , bring in higher interest rates and slower growth . |
| 11 | His manner was normally gracious and unperturbed , although he was a man of powerful emotions and could on occasion explode violently . |
| 12 | A teacher with a video machine in the classroom has the choice of when to use video material and could for example use a sequence with an appropriate setting to establish a context before new language items are introduced . |
| 13 | This is startling stuff until its context is taken into account : the source of this passage is Paul 's work on the lex Iulia et Papia , and it is quite evident from that that Paul intended no general statement , and could with justice complain about his remarks being taken out of context . |
| 14 | From information contained in two articles written by Jeremy Warner , a journalist with the Independent newspaper , the DTI were convinced that he knew members of the ring and could as a result provide helpful evidence to assist their investigations . |
| 15 | The preliminary judgment is another hopeful sign that the barrage will receive government approval and could within the decade be feeding electricity into the national grid . |
| 16 | Advantage : the toilet is within the house and could in the future be connected to sewers rather than a soakway . |
| 17 | He came rapidly to the conclusion that blood-letting , enemas and emetics weakened the already ill patients and could in no way help towards a cure , and he campaigned against such practices for most of his life . |
| 18 | In the late eighteenth century the British parliamentary system was still unreformed , and could in no sense be described as democratic . |
| 19 | As we shall see , mystical teachers tirelessly proclaimed that visions and voices were not an essential part of the mystical journey and could in fact be a distraction ; the mystical apprehension of God certainly had nothing to do with the ordinary emotions . |
| 20 | This approach to visual perception illuminates the nature and generation of our own experiences , and could in principle provide theoretical grounds for saying that a bat , or a Martian , who applied i specific ( objectively definable ) structural description to an object would be more likely to experience a specific type of imagery accordingly . |
| 21 | Moreover , under the optimality theory the outcome does not depend on patterns of pleiotropy , and could in theory be reached by fixation of alleles each with an effect on fitness at only one age . |
| 22 | The king 's " boys " were trained for war , and could in the last resort be used as a sort of flying squad to coerce a recalcitrant local potens on his home-ground . |
| 23 | But he did say there was a possibility that and could in time be made into a parish of their own . |
| 24 | It was felt that the more conservative backward-looking elements no longer represented a serious threat to British authority , but could on the contrary be placated and transformed into loyal allies . |
| 25 | The idea of solitary waves travelling along rivers and canals has been around since 1844. it was considered a novelty until the early 1960s , when scientists discovered that two solitary waves travelling in opposite directions need not destroy one another , but could in fact continue unscathed . |