Example sentences of "[conj] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grammar schools already had adequate facilities or could build them from scratch . |
| 2 | Researchers could measure densities and temperatures , or could infer them approximately , from Langmuir probes — small electrodes inserted into the plasma . |
| 3 | Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed . |
| 4 | Techs who were expert in the Machine Mysteries , autonomous-minded slaves , administrators , ship crews — all the host of support staff for the Marine chapter — slept in modestly comfortable dormitories … assuming that they needed , or could avail themselves of modest comfort during sleep-time . |
| 5 | What struck me , however , was how distant the preoccupations of the audience were from those which could capture a majority in modern Britain , or could govern it successfully if that majority were ever won . |
| 6 | These various substantives evoke a state or quality which disposes the support to perform an action ( willingness , desire , impudence , ability , etc. ) , an action he performs which prevents or could prevent him from realizing it ( hesitation , refusal , reluctance , etc. ) , something he needs in order to realize it ( right , permission ) , a circumstance in which he finds himself which favours something 's occurrence ( chance , occasion ) , etc. — all of which evoke a situation existing before the infinitive event , and so imply a reference to a prior position of the support . |
| 7 | Most of this Greg felt he could ignore : either he had read it , or could read it in more convenient circumstances . |
| 8 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
| 9 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 10 | For all Wexford knew or could remember there might have been a bank robbery in that city at that time . |
| 11 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |
| 12 | None of the combinations of possible future events meant anything at all , nor could mean anything until somebody caught up with Vecchi . |
| 13 | nor could enter her eyes by probing |
| 14 | And so , resentfully , he learned concepts that could stand him in good stead . |
| 15 | Alternatively , the future may bring chemicals that could protect us from any gas , liquid or radiation , not to mention environments in which future generations may live that will separate them from any hazardous source . |
| 16 | Intel Corp is said to be talking eagerly to anyone with cooling technology that could prevent its Pentiums turning personal computers into desktop microwave ovens . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it was the sort of injury that could prevent him from fighting again . |
| 18 | He could n't afford anything that could blunt his instincts . |
| 19 | But so far — and this may be what you 're driving at — we have n't found evidence of anything that could explain her murder . ’ |
| 20 | Maybe you would have been safer if you 'd not chosen a career that could involve you with mine . ’ |
| 21 | COLLEAGUES have rallied round to raise money to send blind toddler Leannda Ward , daughter of Courtaulds Fibres employee Chris Ward , to America for operations that could restore her sight . |
| 22 | Some 35% of us weigh over 10% more than we should — for a woman of average height and build that could mean anything from 12lb to 3 or more stone . |
| 23 | So , sometimes we have to do things with horses that could make them anxious , and we have to work at keeping their anxiety level down . |
| 24 | And in their spirit lay the dormant power that could make them proud , free men again ! |
| 25 | She had dark curly hair with no sign of grey , and a certain shyness that could make her manner seem brusque . |
| 26 | A sadness that could make her give up acting for good . |
| 27 | Still prefers to work by himself — a trait of which he is aware , but one that could make him retreat into a bubble when he most needs help . |
| 28 | ‘ It is the one thing that could make my plans go wrong . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Also , too many slow payers and bad debts will shrink capital and profits to levels that could make it hard to stay open for more business . |