Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there are strong financial and commercial arguments why , ignoring the hype , any management should take a cool , business-like approach to assessing and where possible minimising the risks that could damage their operations in terms of liability claims , disruption of output or direct financial loss . |
| 2 | They had come quietly but Tom had ears that could hear a mouse moving underground , or a squirrel breathing in a tree . |
| 3 | They were the sort of ears that could keep plates spinning at the circus . |
| 4 | As the number of people in Europe has increased , animals that could cohabit with humans thrive while others are marginalised . |
| 5 | The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist . |
| 6 | The people that are in the audience laugh when they see animals that could have been made to do things — just for money . |
| 7 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 8 | She studied his profile in the dim light , his firm jaw and sensitive mouth , his brown eyes that could freeze in anger and burn with emotion , those incredible eyelashes ; in that moment she knew what love was , knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 9 | The best advice I can give you is simply to go for unfair dismissal on the basis that you 've got two managers who do exactly the same job , there 's no need for you to go on site , there are other drivers that could get you there , therefore it 's not necessary to finish your job simply because you 've lost your licence . |
| 10 | It was many years since he 'd had anything in common with his foster family and she would have expected him to use his sojourn in America as a tactful method of ending the association , of breaking ties that could have no conceivable advantage for him . |
| 11 | Traditionally , phonemes were supposed not to overlap in their allophones , so that the only plosives that could have allophones with bilabial place of articulation were and ; this restriction is no longer looked on as so important . |
| 12 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 13 | We have information that the Dutch are planning trouble with the English , and my feeling is that erm that erm amount of Dutch supporters that could cause trouble will not be very high . |
| 14 | ‘ To see if there were any sharp edges or protrusions that could have caused such a head wound ? ’ |
| 15 | In these hot summer months prudent Japanese girls suppress the potential faux pas of erect nipples that could spring up from a cool blast of the air-conditioner by sticking on a handy pair of ‘ Nipples ’ . |
| 16 | Wanting to protect him , she took charge of the conversation then , turning it to subjects that could have no personal connotations for him , subjects like the efficient way that the British government had persuaded the Americans to take over responsibility for Greece and its defence against Communism , which they could no longer afford , and their less effective attempts to involve the Americans in the Palestine troubles . |
| 17 | should cover most aspects that could affect the child 's development . |
| 18 | If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison , are there other , independent variables that could account for the correlation ? |
| 19 | When there is a dispute between nations that could bring a threat to peace , the Security Council listens first to all sides of the argument . |
| 20 | It did n't matter that he was quite well built , had strong legs and could run quite fast ; he was too short and that was that . |
| 21 | These could be most advantageous to both parties and could facilitate the recruitment of church musicians at an early age . |
| 22 | This found that girls who had felt isolated and embarrassed about being pregnant or having babies felt less stigma about this after they had attended the units and could take a much more realistic view of their situation . |
| 23 | If you are talking about more general studies or if you did a non-vocational course at college or university you should show how this demonstrates that you are capable of becoming interested in a wide range of subjects and could bring the same enthusiasm to your work . |
| 24 | Presumably many of those who first examined this Daguerreotype were familiar with Whitehall and this row of shops and could read more with a naked eye . |
| 25 | These stock yards covered 500 acres and could accommodate at any one time 75,000 cattle , I25,000 sheep , 300,000 hogs , and 6,000 horses . |
| 26 | My sister Philippa was taught to read by more conventional methods and could read by the age of four . |
| 27 | Has slipped down the weights and could surprise at long odds here . |
| 28 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 29 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 30 | That will mean a four-fold rise in the cost of new exploration wells to companies which have interests in existing oilfields and could stop the practice of stakes in older oilfields being bought as a tax shelter by smaller independent oil companies wanting to financing exploration plans . |