Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One weakness of this study is that being retrospective , although the authors could control for inter-rater reliability in defining cases of schizophrenia , they were relying on diagnoses made by clinicians at an earlier period . |
| 2 | We are now involved in even bigger projects , and the successful candidates could work for such companies as Ernst Oil , Stavro Construction and Blofeld Engineering . |
| 3 | Widespread activation of T cells , with selective representation of particular V elements , is also a feature of some inflammatory joint diseases linked with infective agents and of Kawasaki disease , and superantigen effects could account for these associations . |
| 4 | In particular , voters on social security receiving rate rebates could vote for increased services without having to pay for them . |
| 5 | At dinner a military band played ; the governor 's wife was ‘ a very agreeable woman , with an uncommonly mild and sweet tone of voice ’ , and the governor told Johnson and Boswell that ‘ the Arabs could live for five days without victuals , and subsist for three weeks on nothing else but the blood of their camels , who could lose so much of it as would suffice for that time , without being exhausted . ’ |
| 6 | From ‘ above ’ , a left government could attempt to gain control over the deployment of investment funds , in particular the surplus income of the personal sector , while from ‘ below ’ workers could struggle for democratic control over the particular enterprises which employ them , breaking down the managerial hierarchies and commercial secrecy of these enterprises . |
| 7 | Such new procedures could allow for longer debates , perhaps in Committee , with the ability to amend regulations and with provision for an effective vote to take place in Committee . |
| 8 | At times of high wages or low food prices , out-workers could opt for more leisure , but in times of slack trade they might well find themselves unable to get enough work to compensate for falling rates . |
| 9 | The shining Gaggia dispensed one-and-a-half inches of bitter froth into an earthenware cup , and for two shillings lovers could sit for many hours in the dark brown shadows , with a bowl of brown sugar between them . |
| 10 | At most observation posts , though , the Sections could work for several weeks without relief . |