Example sentences of "[adv] could [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see my visions for qualitative are slightly different to the four months at the moment , and I feel perhaps could exchange Q P16 for the control procedures to be a longer procedure but to have everything covering the project plan in progress monitoring through to quality control procedures for just the quality . |
| 2 | Yet if living together could create problems , it also resulted in some notably strong relationships between grandparents and grandchildren . |
| 3 | He and Dinah together could make books that would be widely read in scholarly circles ; he would achieve recognition of a sort he had never had before ; in America they would know of no disgrace about him , and in any case he was now married . |
| 4 | Not only could slum youth sometimes afford to pay their fines when they appeared in the police courts — a shocking enough fact to their respectable contemporaries that was often remarked upon — but they could even pick and choose what clothes they would wear when they came to court . |
| 5 | If men alone could represent God , then somehow they were the lords of women . |
| 6 | It alone could authenticate documents with the Great Seal , which was in its custody , and issue orders that required full legal backing , such as grants of land , appointments to offices , and treaties with foreign powers . |
| 7 | Living words alone could speak plain . |
| 8 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |
| 9 | ‘ Ross … please , Ross … ! ’ she gasped , desperate for the power and thrust of his flesh , which alone could bring release from the ever-mounting , passionate excitement that was shaking her slender form . |
| 10 | Thanks in part to the inventive energy of Thomas Cromwell and the long , tireless service of the Cecils , there developed some sort of working tradition ; but there was little of the bureaucratic foundation which alone could provide continuity and organization . |
| 11 | ‘ Clothing and shoe deals alone could approach $1 million a year . |
| 12 | Any soul despairing or inspired enough could get access . |
| 13 | The leading judgment , expressing the majority view , was given by Lamont J. The maxim , which I have already quoted , led to the conclusion that as the child en ventre sa mère was born alive it was to be treated as having being alive while en ventre sa mère and so could claim damages for an injury at that time . |
| 14 | The new compiler under development at SunPro and elsewhere could improve performance 15% to 20% . |
| 15 | Way back in the middle ages its lonely church was a link with one of the wealthiest , and eventually most corrupt , of religious orders — an order which , it has been suggested , could have shattered , and indeed , still could shatter Christianity to its foundations . |
| 16 | She really could hear Lincolnshire speech . |
| 17 | In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner 's late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism , and how the hell I could afford to clothe myself in the right gear to make a stunning impact on my new friends at the Gateways . |
| 18 | Doing the same now could provide £4,450 in 2002 . |
| 19 | Most horses naturally slow down slightly when asked to move away from this sort of attraction , but a marked reluctance to go forwards could indicate nappiness . |
| 20 | ‘ If we are called out to a bonfire which potentially could cause damage , it is our responsibility to put it out . |
| 21 | The people who possessed the skills to make metal might not need to work at producing their own food — someone else could grow food for them . |
| 22 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
| 23 | But no one else could sustain Ambrose 's pressure , stomach cramps that forced Patterson to leave the field after seven overs was a further handicap and Wessels and Kirsten , the two most experience batsmen , dug in to remain together till the close , their stand then worth 95 . |
| 24 | He was also utterly allergic to the suggestion that de Gaulle or anybody else could have legitimacy until the French people had expressed their preferences in democratic fashion . |
| 25 | Actually , in a sense they are acting in their own best interests : the whole point of the life/dinner principle is that they theoretically could resist manipulation but it would be too costly to do so . |
| 26 | I had wagered a purse that I would beat him at bowls and Drake never could resist gold . |
| 27 | At last , just to hear his own voice , Desmond said : ‘ Funny , I never could imagine Walter Machin writing books , let alone good ones . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I NEVER could understand economics . |
| 29 | I never could understand electricity : it bites you . |
| 30 | And what about the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , I wonder if they too could make use of this method of selling their wares ? |