Example sentences of "could in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preston tried to keep his fears from the twins but he also kept them as far from the edges and ends of the platform as he possibly could in case of beast attacks . |
| 2 | Similarly , the poorer progress of Bangladeshi children could in part be accounted for by the fact that Bangladeshi communities suffer from the effects of poor housing , poverty and high rates of unemployment ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Existing member states , such as the UK , therefore were to receive relatively less in terms of regional aid than previously , although this could in part be compensated by the general increase in the size of the Structural Funds . |
| 4 | Hepworth was to speak wistfully of ‘ a pressure in the air which we did not understand ’ , saying that ‘ we worked on as best we could in spite of it . ’ |
| 5 | The bishops claimed , however , they were making it clear that people could in conscience vote for the introduction of divorce without incurring moral blame provided they made the decision in a reflective and conscientious way . |
| 6 | This error proved to be nearly the last straw needed to break his credit , since he had raised every cent he could in order to invest in land for building . |
| 7 | ‘ But the trouble is that we do n't know the pattern of the stars here , ’ said Snodgrass , who had sent himself quite dizzy by standing perfectly still and craning his neck as far back as he could in order to see the night sky . |
| 8 | One way is to ask what kinds of mechanism could in principle generate some observed behaviour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the case just considered , social institutions could in principle be an expression of a pre-cultural disposition . |
| 11 | While Marx rejects needs as the units in terms of which economic phenomena should be analysed , he could in principle simply replace them by some other property of individuals , and found a theory on this trait instead . |
| 12 | This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this . |
| 13 | LTP-related changes in Ca 2+ homeostasis could in principle account for persistent changes in transmitter release . |
| 14 | With enough chips and a large enough training set , it could in principle recognise any class of retinal images with absolute confidence . |
| 15 | The power to make decisions that is located within companies could in principle be vested in , or at least shared with , the affected groups . |
| 16 | Primary and secondary prevention could in principle reduce the birth prevalence of congenital abnormalities by about 36% , from 65/1000 to 42/1000 , the greater part of the effect being due to secondary prevention . |
| 17 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |
| 18 | As a rule , people do not hear single isolated words , and in the great majority of cases any word we hear is preceded by a context which could in principle be used to assist word recognition . |
| 19 | Any particle could in principle be used ; most results have been obtained with neutrons or electrons , each of which has various advantages and disadvantages for particular samples . |
| 20 | In the process , the project should generate an appropriate framework for thinking about the provision of business support services which could in principle be applied to any locality . |
| 21 | The Fundamental Rule could in principle allow any component to interact with any other component . |
| 22 | In practice , you might , for instance : ( a ) Broaden your essay 's conclusions , so that they could in principle be applied to other books , or an author 's work as a whole . |
| 23 | This could in principle have occurred smoothly : as profitability slid down , accumulation could have declined gently to a sustainable rate . |
| 24 | Adjustment to full employment could in principle occur without any tendency towards inflation . |
| 25 | With an exclamation of disgust , she pushed herself to her knees and flung the offending branch as far as she could in temper at her own stupidity . |
| 26 | This could in turn explain why a higher proportion of experimental eggs were rejected at Santa Fe than at Guadix , because hosts are known to be more likely to reject alien eggs when they are alerted by encounters with the adult parasite in the vicinity of their nest . |
| 27 | This could in turn receive extensive media coverage . |
| 28 | It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay . |
| 29 | Each of these problems could in turn be broken down into sub-problems . |
| 30 | If we were to force the electricity-generating companies to take coal in volumes and at prices that they do not want , the certain consequence would be higher electricity prices for the domestic customer and for the rest of British industry , which could in turn be bad for long-term job prospects . |