Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only industry could absorb locally this surplus the land would not support , and in the early half of the nineteenth century there was none . |
| 2 | Retrospective evidence from 1840 suggests that up to 1796 when it came into use , a master weaver could earn around 12s 6d ( 62½p ) a week , but from this he had , essentially on the old two-man loom , to pay a journeyman 3s 6d ( 17½p ) and his board , and a further 2s ( 10p ) to a child assistant . |
| 3 | He strongly denies this , of course , but who but a dedicated optimist could have so much confidence ? |
| 4 | A suboptimal ultrasonographic localisation could explain less satisfactory results obtained in some other centres . |
| 5 | For Lord Waddington , kicked upstairs to the Lords in 1991 , a conversation with the PM could mean only one thing — another gentle shove away from the centre of power . |
| 6 | FARMERS who regularly lease out milk quota could get even higher prices from dairy companies after the milk board system is dissolved . |
| 7 | The theory behind the stock editor approach was that one person ( or group of people ) working full time on the bookstock could achieve a more penetrating and unified approach , and that the stock editor could pay more detailed attention to such matters as checks on withdrawals , coverage of specialist reviews , and the perusal of lists of secondhand books . |
| 8 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 9 | Therefore an arbitrageur could make virtually riskless profits by exchanging sterling for Deutschmarks , Deutschmarks for dollars and dollars for sterling : . |
| 10 | There is also the safety aspect : if you have bad lighting or dangerously worn carpet on part of the staircase , waiting for a few years to tackle the problem because it is all part of the grand plan could prove very false economy indeed . |
| 11 | Pressure mounted against Jaq 's armour , and though the armour could withstand far greater stress before crumpling he could hardly move even under full power . |
| 12 | These troops , clearly oblivious to danger , were at first thought to be a Dutch contingent , and had come so close that the Bren gunner could fire only two magazines before grenades knocked out his weapon . |
| 13 | Sometimes this sympathy could involve quite extraordinary leniency . |
| 14 | One selling crockery could balance about six teaplates on one arm , a quick movement and they were in a neat pile in his hand . |
| 15 | North told the story to Bob Earl , too , to whom he was closer , and with whom the story could slip still more bonds with the world of facts . |
| 16 | He claimed that no Act of Parliament could take away this right . |
| 17 | Any hint of Fed tightening could cause even more chaos than usual , because of the precarious condition of much of America 's financial and property markets : the legacy of the huge growth in debt during the 1980s , and the main cause of worry now . |
| 18 | ( In firm D by contrast , a conveyance file could contain over 90 letters . ) |
| 19 | A standard disc could contain only 25 seconds of video . |
| 20 | It was strange that a man who had known so much sorrow could radiate so much life . |
| 21 | Defects from bad workmanship were potentially higher , and serious accidental damage after occupation could arise because the occupier either would not know the house was timber-framed or would not be aware of its consequences — even attempting to hang a picture could cause potentially serious damage . |
| 22 | And without it , a trade war could devastate already shaky world economies . |
| 23 | No real life shop could support so many assistants for so small a stock , but how the audience loved this bevy of beauties who bowed , and sidestepped , in stately fashion ( the great stunning picture hats for Jubilee Year would not appear until Act Two — not reach their apogee until Act Three ) . |
| 24 | But American attitudes and behaviour could create equally bad impressions in Britain . |
| 25 | Revolution was only one , and not the commonest , method pursued by burghers ; taking advantage of political disturbance could bring more speedy results . |
| 26 | The union , which has around 5,000 members , said new plans by the Department of Education could remove altogether special payments for teachers taking premature retirement . |
| 27 | A MORNING bowl of muesli could contain as much fat as two fried eggs and four teaspoons of sugar , a report has warned . |
| 28 | A five-member constituency could have about 330,000 voters , widely dispersed in rural and semi-rural areas , and in cities not all living in close and homogeneous proximity . |
| 29 | The relatively detailed information in the annals and in the correspondence of Alcuin for this phase of the reign of Eardwulf enables us to perceive more clearly than is usually the case the way in which an attempt to challenge a Northumbrian king could embrace both internal dissent and external interference . |
| 30 | Such a development could have most serious consequences . |