Example sentences of "could [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had a very , very good over from Bill Tufnell there , it 's always a bit tricky when you come on to bowl and it 's turning and it 's a long day ahead and you , you 're expected to get hissed and you expect to get hissed , and you can get very impatient when they do n't come , but he 's got one now , he 's got , now he 's bowled well all morning now , he 's bowled almost for an hour , but he 's got that one wicket and he , that over was full of confidence , he tossed one up , misjudged the length and got into a bit of a tangle and then he bowled a quicker one which tried to cut , he then misjudged the pace and he could off nick it to the , a very , very good over and he 's bowling with , with great confidence at the moment . |
| 2 | This means that you could for example , take the pieces of garment originally designed for conventional knitting and rotate them through 90 degrees to get a pattern for sideways knitting . |
| 3 | The objects , which are selected by dragging and dropping from a menu , could for example , reference patient name , number and admission date in a hospital administration system . |
| 4 | The objects , which are selected by dragging and dropping from a menu , could for example , reference patient name , number and admission date in a hospital administration system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Concept keyboards allow areas of an overlay , which could for example be a historical map or a picture , to be touched by the pupil , calling up associated sub-screens of data or questions about the feature in question . |
| 7 | Belinda had worked very hard indeed for nearly twelve years since her mother 's death , becoming almost a mother herself to the twin boys and doing as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could between school and homework . |
| 8 | She 'd spent the rest of the afternoon trying to find out all she could about leukaemia , and the funny disease Dr Kent thought Bobbie Cole had . |
| 9 | She could about stagger to the off-licence and obliterate the rest of the evening . |
| 10 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 11 | we could of phone up , what two |
| 12 | The same thing could of course be done with two ADCs and software , but in a system without those facilities , this circuit provides a purely hardware implementation . |
| 13 | She could of course , she thought with that sudden burst of adolescent enthusiasm , not live . |
| 14 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
| 15 | Such a play on emotions could of course be depicted in different ways . |
| 16 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 17 | The NME was unusually acerbic about the incident , referring to Gedge 's ‘ fat arse ’ and continuing : ‘ This could of course explain the band 's recent silence . |
| 18 | You could of course invest in a total systemised tank . |
| 19 | You could of course call on Messrs Bradshaw or Cornish to sort out the confusion , but they 'll cost you all four limbs and a second mortgage . |
| 20 | You could of course opt for the new Marshall JMP-1 MIDI preamp , which would almost certainly do the job ; I could equally recommend Boogie 's TriAxis , but that breaches your £1,000 ceiling . |
| 21 | Alternatively Vox could of course use a full width string tree on the headstock side of the nut , but if it were my decision I 'd opt for altering the machinehead ; it 's a lot neater and keeps the headstock looking authentic . |
| 22 | ‘ Double Cutaway ’ sounds a little plain Jane , but the owner could of course christen it with whatever apt title came to mind . |
| 23 | Ferguson could of course retain McClair and leave out Ryan Giggs or Lee Sharpe . |
| 24 | For the Fly/Past reader , its greatest appeal will come in its charting of the history of the achievements of homebuilds and their creators , from the earliest enthusiasts like the Wright Brothers ( their Wright Flyer could of course be classed as a homebuilt ! ) to more recent feats like the non-stop , around-the-world , un-refuelled flight by the Rutan Voyager . |
| 25 | While you could of course do press-ups and go for walks , you will probably have a much better time if you join the new keep-fit brigade . |
| 26 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 27 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 28 | An avowed enemy could of course be opposed with propriety , but if sufficient effort was not made to put victory beyond dispute , there was always some danger of humiliation , and , since there were inevitably many gentlemen who loved a winner , there would be some to see such a defeat as a sign to reconsider their political friendships . |
| 29 | Novell could of course come back again sometime down the road , since its strategic interest in operating systems is doubtless unchanged , or another company could find the acquisition appealing ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 30 | A donor could of course stipulate in his gift that he did n't care whether the works were sold or not . |