Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 2 | In those pieces that are workable for both groups , it seems perfectly plausible that the string and wind ensembles could have played simultaneously the statement in the first entrée that the bride and groom are led by the violins and oboes suggests as much or they may have played in alternation . |
| 3 | Without the Soviet threat American domestic constraints could have weakened further the drive for a new American-led international economic order . |
| 4 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 5 | Eva could go walking there the weekends she was free , capturing the beauty of the beeches or a snow scene in detailed photographs , a hobby she had first taken up in Africa . |
| 6 | in Newham , that could mean shedding over a quarter of its section eleven teachers . |
| 7 | Meade cites the membership of the ‘ little company of four men and four women who , in 1379 , could afford to provide only a candle to burn during the daily mass at the church of St Nicholas , Great Yarmouth ’ . |
| 8 | Channel 3 played safe with a re-run of Taggart ( ITV ) , which I suppose you could argue showed only the Scots in a bad light . |