Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 2 | it might well be that one of the one of the forms could go down there to have a morning as part of this project to do |
| 3 | This ensured that aircraft out on the routes at outstations lacking facilities for making the checks could fly to a place where it could be done . |
| 4 | Korea 's choice of shipbuilding shortly before the shipbuilding and especially the tanker market virtually collapsed in the mid-1970s could have been disastrous . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't mind a cup of something , ’ he said to Owen , so that the donkey-boys could hear , ‘ and perhaps a bite or two . |
| 6 | Then , the course was so short of mounds and high vantage points that only spectators just behind the ropes could watch play in comfort . |
| 7 | Then , the course was so short of mounds and high vantage points that only spectators just behind the ropes could watch play in comfort . |
| 8 | The clubs could attempt the task , and indeed their origins include the desire on the part of settlement workers to preach the virtues of citizenship , just as Scouting did more than twenty years later . |
| 9 | However , there are other less ambitious examples of the kind of information which the accounts could provide about inputs but which is not provided by cash flow accounting . |
| 10 | An obvious example of where the accounts could provide information about erosion of capital , but in the case of cash accounts do not , is for the sale of capital assets . |
| 11 | The study identifies few holdings where the occupiers could claim ‘ primary dependence on farming as a livelihood ’ , and that there was no valid reason for those farmers to expect any benefit from the CAP . |
| 12 | According to Mitsubishi , the discussions could lead to joint microprocessor development , and announcement is expected soon . |
| 13 | St Mary 's had notched up three points before the Westerners could reply and , at times playing inspired football , they raced into a 0–6 0–3 lead . |
| 14 | In any case , I think the artists could bring to it still more expressive range , and though their strong playing is always enjoyable , the famous 1977 recording with Kyung Wha Chung and Radu Lupu ( Decca ) is still my recommended version of this rapturous sonata . |
| 15 | The creditors could argue that the contracts and loans related to the purchase of tin as encompassed in the objectives of the 6th International Tin Agreement . |
| 16 | He said that the deportations could jeopardise international negotiations aimed at finding a long-term solution to the boat people problem . |
| 17 | Many farms had more family workers than could be fully employed , and so migration to the cities could occur without loss of food output . |
| 18 | The Merseysiders could have added two more . |
| 19 | Chief Justice Coke was of opinion that the courts could intervene if Parliament enacted outrageous legislation . |
| 20 | He agreed that the courts could intervene if the question was whether or not the Commission had acted within its powers or its jurisdiction . |
| 21 | The courts could intervene only if unfairness was such as to amount to an abuse of power . |
| 22 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 23 | To obtain an eviction order through the courts could mean a lengthy legal process , possibly entailing adverse publicity . |
| 24 | Or the courts could call the application of a statutory term a question of law , but accept that it does not have to have only one meaning . |
| 25 | This would mean that the courts could take into account , as in other contexts where the expression is encountered , the purposes for which the notification is required . |
| 26 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 27 | The courts could impose a probation order . |
| 28 | The Protection from Eviction Act 1977 gave some additional protection since the courts could delay eviction . |
| 29 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 30 | If inquiries , or some of them , were to be viewed in this light then the courts could help to devise procedural rules to fit this type of decision-making . |