Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 2 | Continuity , stability , mutual reliance , it says ; yet a change of wind or tide could end it all . |
| 3 | ‘ If we did not , we would lose all continuity with our past , would only be able to live from moment to moment like butterflies alighting and flitting away , and no relationship or experience could have any permanent value for us . |
| 4 | A misrepresentation or misdescription could result in the landlord being unable to enforce the terms of the agreement . |
| 5 | Young people with little education but the right connections or boldness could make more money selling goods like watermelons on the street than they could hope to earn after graduation . |
| 6 | ‘ was not clean and in good working order ’ This point means among other things that the lamps in question must be kept clean as mud or snow could hide the light . |
| 7 | In Paris , if he strolled into the Dôme or the Rotonde , he would find interesting types , émigrés , intellectuals , beauties or bohemians , or Zbo could hire models for him . |
| 8 | From next year your agrochemical salesman or adviser could have a new set of professional letters after his name . |
| 9 | After seven months in business , 69 Diving are now expanding to enlarge their range to cover everything the individual diver or club could require . |
| 10 | It would to find altruism in the way we could find but social cooperation or self-sacrifice or altruism could evolve by natural selection . |
| 11 | Or Bonanza could have figured she was better out of the way . |
| 12 | The loss or disappointment could concern a person or object , a role or an idea . |
| 13 | The machines could have been used to pace the workers , or management could have monitored the utilisation rate of the various machines . |
| 14 | But a bit of added hydrogen or oxygen could tip the balance . |
| 15 | Similarly , a knight or baron could hold of several lords . |
| 16 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 17 | I asked him if he or Tiare could let me see the ‘ inheritance ’ ; and I saw it . ’ |
| 18 | Here also the provision of small areas of high quality forage by means of the use of suitable plants , e.g. subterranean clover , or irrigation for the production of herbage for grazing or cutting could have a significant influence in animal production . |
| 19 | In Lancashire the effect of unemployment was less dramatic , possibly because wife or child could continue to earn . |
| 20 | Until recently what was on the child 's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question . |
| 21 | ‘ Illness or accident could have isolated him somewhere . |
| 22 | Consequential loss can be where delay or loss of a letter or package could involve you in additional expense over and above its actual value . |
| 23 | It was the only thing on the horizon , shouldering aside achievement and sensation with attention-seeking roughness , and nothing , not conversation , wine , sexual encounters or the search for knowledge or fame could prevent it . |
| 24 | It has been said that the name Lowthorpe or Logetorp could have meant ‘ Law-village ’ in ancient Norse . |
| 25 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 26 | Members of a trade regularly brought together in workplace or community could acknowledge regular leaders and develop and insist on customary work practices without embedding any of this in formal regulations and procedures . |
| 27 | In this case another usher or bridesmaid could take over the duty of checking the microphone . |
| 28 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 29 | In fulfilling this duty the Bank may often be faced with situations where extremely urgent action is required , and where delay could result in losses to , possibly , very substantial numbers of customers of such institutions , embracing both corporate and private customers , whose interests the Act is designed to protect . |
| 30 | While only Superman or Wonderwoman could have detected the gap between crease and outstretched bat as the bails were dislodged , the all-important fact is that a million or two television viewers on that Australia Day were shown the truth on the slow-motion replay . |