Example sentences of "and could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 2 | They knew how it should be used , and could doubtless be taught more and more about how to put this knowledge to good effect . |
| 3 | Cherry Hill is in the ‘ International Modern ’ style and could equally well be on the outskirts of Stuttgart or San Francisco as Sunningdale . |
| 4 | The idea presumably being that the different instruments could all get along together and could equally well do solo turns . |
| 5 | I grant you we put a check on him once , and could again , but never think you saw the true measure of de Burgh in Kerry , there 's more to him than that . |
| 6 | Though it still controlled local government , it lost some of its power of patronage and could no longer direct national policy in favour of its clientele . |
| 7 | She was a pretty , rather fleshy blonde , who revelled in the bohemian life of Montparnasse and enjoyed hanging round artists , posing for them , helping them to buy paints and cigarettes , studying intermittently at the Sorbonne until she had spent most of her inheritance and could no longer afford to pay for tuition . |
| 8 | For example , the requirement that companies and firms not registered in Denmark obtain prior authorisation from the Ministry of Justice if they wished to acquire land was clearly incompatible with the right of establishment , and could no longer be applied to companies registered in other member states when Denmark joined the EC . |
| 9 | She found , however , that once she had been formally initiated into the movement , she was expected to spend all her time with other female devotees and could no longer speak to , let alone question , the leaders ( who were all male ) . |
| 10 | Other people have spent many years in hospital and could no longer live outside it . |
| 11 | He became increasingly preoccupied with his mistress , Alice Perrers , and could no longer offer the leadership which had united the nobility behind him in the 1340s and 1350s . |
| 12 | The diet of the rural poor may have deteriorated towards the end of the century because they had lost their pasturage and could no longer collect firewood or game from the common land ( Taylor 1975 ) . |
| 13 | The company needed a million dollars a day simply to function and could no longer generate the money . |
| 14 | After 1934 , against a background of economic recession and political polarisation , the social grievances of the French working class became clearly visible and could no longer be conveniently swept under the carpet . |
| 15 | Gramps was dead , and could no longer be hurt . |
| 16 | The plant , built in 1974 , had a poor safety record and had been closed for a two-year period following a failure in the control system in 1985 , and could no longer provide electricity at a competitive price . |
| 17 | She felt extraordinarily and ridiculously happy and could no ] understand the reason for it . |
| 18 | I licked my lips and could already taste the salt ; my hair was whipped into a cone . |
| 19 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 20 | The attacks on Israel — and the war in general — are making a deep impression on Iraq 's neighbours and could yet detach the Arab members of the alliance . |
| 21 | But the speculators have tasted blood and could yet force a devaluation of the franc . |
| 22 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 23 | Although the picture he gives is over-simplified it is thought out clearly and could scarcely be presented more lucidly or vividly . |
| 24 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm so pleased he got round , ’ remarked Miss Sanders , who was hobbling around with her left foot in a plastic bag after breaking her ankle in a schooling accident and could scarcely bring herself to watch the race . |
| 26 | Another candidate is the Burgess Shale Echmatocrinus , currently interpreted not as a cnidarian at all , but as an echinoderm , the earliest crinoid : the supposed tube feet are very large and could instead be anthozoan-like tentacles . |
| 27 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 28 | It literally means a rug manufactured in the Orient , and could legitimately be applied to any rug of oriental origin , regardless of its appearance or how it was made . |
| 29 | Its volume of 7443 million cubic metres is greater than any other British lake and could comfortably immerse every man , woman , and child on Earth three times over . |
| 30 | James had now failed to seize either of the main Protestant strongholds in Ireland and could clearly not feel secure till they had been subdued . |