Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he could modify his model by supposing that the gradient has its high point at the back edge of each segment , and that bristles point up the slope , and it would work just as well . |
| 2 | Worker bees are three times more closely related to their full sisters than to their half sisters , so workers could enhance their fitness by raising a full sister as the new queen when the colony swarms . |
| 3 | The case , heard in February 1929 , revealed that , since his association with Arsenal began in 1910 , Sir Henry had placed some £15,000 of his own money at the club 's disposal ( a bounty which could explain his campaign against rising transfer fees ) . |
| 4 | I thought that I could make my contribution by joining the Trade Union movement , and improve things from there . ’ |
| 5 | He would call at the house at random times to see if he could catch his wife in compromising circumstances . |
| 6 | But , in so far as the subject was addressed , the dominant view was that by integrating modern industry into the communal structure Russia could enjoy its benefits without enduring proletarianization . |
| 7 | Miliutin realized that landowners would not take kindly to his plan of campaign , but he felt that the government could win their support by setting up gentry committees to work out local details and by sanctioning a debate on peasant affairs in the press . |
| 8 | He said he was surprised journalists could compromise their impartiality in covering a matter of public interest by declaring their support for one side or the other . |
| 9 | ‘ The UK felt it very important to be a member of LOFT while the ( Sizewell ) inquiry was going on , so they could demonstrate their seriousness in picking up the questions on safety ’ . |
| 10 | He discovered quickly that he could lessen his discomfort by lying still and keeping his breathing shallow . |
| 11 | ‘ The thought that any mother could manipulate their child into making this ludicrous and wicked cassette and appallingly arrange for it to be bought up by a TV network tells you all you have to know . ’ |
| 12 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 13 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 14 | Many right-wing back-bench critics of the government ( but supporters of Mrs Thatcher ) could voice their criticism without including her and liked to present her as a political prisoner of Cabinet ‘ Wets ’ . |
| 15 | She could remember his amazement on learning what she did to earn her living ; there had even been a hint of surprise that she actually needed to . |
| 16 | ( In the event , at the end of 1991 prices were weak , with Algeria 's Nordine Ait Laoussine on Christmas Eve predicting worse developments still unless OPEC could see its way to reducing output . ) |
| 17 | ‘ And you could see him sort of recline back in the chair … he was visibly surprised . ’ |
| 18 | If you could see your way to writing the first chapters of an autobiography I would be honoured to read it and give you my thoughts on the subject . |
| 19 | Scorton has entered both the Britain in Bloom and the Best Kept Village competitions and the Parish Council would be grateful if you could see your way to getting the verges trimmed as soon as possible . |
| 20 | ‘ We are travellers from a far distant shore , and we wondered if you could see your way to giving us a drink . |
| 21 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |
| 22 | You could begin your essay by acknowledging this and continue to work with the definitions throughout the essay , relating the different definitions together in the conclusion . |
| 23 | ‘ Certainly not ! ’ she replied indignantly , but felt so good inside that there was no way she could stop her mouth from curving upwards . |
| 24 | ‘ I was thinking if we could stop his cows from getting out of a field or save his hayricks when they were on fire , ’ said Heather , who loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures , with herself as the heroine . |
| 25 | In spring 1988 Johnson asked for the case to be adjourned so that LGCM could move its office without appearing to have been thrown out . |
| 26 | He could supplement his income by taking up to eight boarders , but he was forbidden to accept any curacy or other parochial duty without the Goldsmiths ' consent . |
| 27 | Barbed wire and every lump of building material that the Lithuanians could lay their hands on have been commandeered for self-defence . |
| 28 | The second possibility is that a bank could rearrange its assets by selling securities . |
| 29 | She wondered whether she could gain his respect by telling him of her d'Urberville blood . |
| 30 | As soon as Lydia saw him she realised that she could have her picnic without putting her wicked plan into operation . |