Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] could " in BNC.

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1 I mean that box on the left hand side there could be Ralph Gardener Community High School and where it says science or maths or whatever
2 As a result there could be a decrease in stainable immunoreactive product in the cell .
3 It was hard to see what future there could be for the embittered and ranting Nazi or his new and pretty wife , other than a steady descent into the poverty of hired rooms and unpaid bills .
4 In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment .
5 To my mind there could be no greater re-education than that offered by the Alexander Technique .
6 But he was expecting a decision now , and with Angel firmly in mind there could only be one answer .
7 Fleischmann discussed radiation with them , aware that if fusion was indeed happening in the cell there could be significant health risks although he did seem to be feeling all right .
8 In the turbulent world of the water industry there could be a few more shocks in the pipeline .
9 Doubts could arise only about matters of , as it were , taste , such as manners and morals , where simple quantitative accumulation provided no guidance There could be no question that men in 1860 knew more than ever before , but whether they were ‘ better ’ could not be demonstrated in the same way .
10 He found it hard to understand what all the fuss was about , what possible pleasure there could be in waving a stick about for hours , catching nothing .
11 In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question .
12 This paper refers to lorries being allowed into the dock area overnight and ‘ in the long term there could be 24 hour operation . ’
13 At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound .
14 Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form .
15 From the point of view of the school or college there could be a number of more or less tangible advantages .
16 If the United Nations Convention comes into force there could potentially be two seabed conventional regimes with parties to one constituting third parties to the other .
17 It occurred to her far too late that in a contest between fire and ice there could be only one victor .
18 Of his extreme misery at this moment there could be no doubt .
19 On April 20 two leading opposition groups — the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania ( FLAM ) and the United Front for Armed Resistance ( FURAM ) — said in a joint statement that without Taya 's resignation and a general amnesty there could be no genuine democracy .
20 To supplement the engineering investigation there could be one investigator concentrating on the aircraft structure and flying controls , with another working on power plants , i.e. engines and fuel systems , another concerned with hydraulic , electrical , pneumatic and electronic systems , and yet another checking through the maintenance records .
21 In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer .
22 In a hierarchy , a pointer is likely to refer to the owner record — on each lecturer record there could be a pointer to its owner , the head of department .
23 ‘ From the moment he caught the bear 's attention there could have been no chance of him escaping .
24 With the runny nose there could be a problem with the sinuses or the pony may be a catarrh sufferer .
25 Some of the surplus there could in fact have been ploughed into a er further extensions of the present residents ' parking , but of course , as has been mentioned here , I welcome the , the modest er extension of the residents ' parking into the other half of
26 Obviously , since the whole economy was engaged in this process there could not be , according To Bukharin , a wholly unbalanced growth , even though there would be certain imbalances as a result of growth taking place in different sectors at somewhat different rates .
27 The logic of choosing pensionable ages for the purposes of disentitlement under section 82 must be that after retirement there could be no redundancy .
28 In situations where the second person was the farmer 's wife there could be physical limitations to the amount of assistance given .
29 They argued that under imperialism there could be no separate ‘ national question ’ .
30 Next day there could be a grand concert , details of which will be released later .
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