Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper said that a close contest could push the price up to over $1bn ( £610m ) . |
| 2 | This could , however , suggest too late a date for the work at Trier ( for it is very unlikely to have been after 325 ) , indeed , Parlasca ( 1975 , 77 ) thinks the mosaicist could have travelled in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 4 | If the beach is crowded with swimmers , sail well clear of them since a board travelling even at low speed could do severe damage to someone 's head . |
| 5 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 6 | Speed could have had at least 3 goals , and Deane could have had 3 . |
| 7 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 8 | This sturdy little jeep could knock six bells out of your fancy gates . ’ |
| 9 | Ultimately just another conquest to lump in with the rest , so your score-sheet could remain unblemished by failure . ’ |
| 10 | Anyone with enough nerve could lay claim to the merchandise . |
| 11 | Within limits , the family of the dead soldier could form the wording of the announcement without censorship , making the death-columns ( alongside advertisements ) the only non- ‘ co-ordinated ’ parts of German newspapers ( though the SD kept an eye on them , apparently aware of their potential as an index of opinion ) . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the century the average well-trained soldier could fire about one round per minute . |
| 13 | And , before the young soldier could ask whether he was being sarcastic , Corbett slipped by him . |
| 14 | Julian Lakin , Smith New Court , suggested the offering could value the restaurants at more than £150 million . |
| 15 | Have only low-level foliage in the front of the house , where only a garden gnome could hide . |
| 16 | The stranger kept her in a sound vacuum , through which no fascinating rhythm could penetrate . |
| 17 | Care should be taken when dealing with loved ones as a rift could form if you are too argumentative . |
| 18 | Care should be taken when dealing with loved ones as a rift could form if you are too argumentative . |
| 19 | Care should be taken when dealing with loved ones as a rift could form if you are too argumentative . |
| 20 | Again , in the use of spears , the Christian knight , crouched behind his kite-shaped shield , atop his massive war horse could topple a lightly armed man completely out of the saddle — and probably spear him through in the process . |
| 21 | There are houses for the staff , a hostel for the stable lads , kitchens and rest rooms and everything a race horse could want . |
| 22 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 23 | By means of tapping his foot the horse could perform mathematical calculations , and solve problems of musical harmony . |
| 24 | ARAZI 'S reputation nose-dived again yesterday when the one-time wonder horse could finish only third at Longchamp . |
| 25 | On a sound towpath a horse could pull up to 50 tons . |
| 26 | No horse could do it , not even this great-muscled giant . |
| 27 | The horse could have two or four shoes depending on the amount of work which it is going to do . |
| 28 | Even in pre-telegraph days , when instructions could be sent no faster than a horse could trot or a ship sail , it is far from clear that this meant greater independence for diplomats . |
| 29 | " Good God , man , " we have n't got many moments This horse could die ! " |
| 30 | Now what a training performance this would be if this horse could win because he 's trained by Dermott Wilde and do you remember ten days ago he sent out Vintage Crop to win the Melbourne Cup down in Australia . |