Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | ‘ The English will have larger cannon than these merchanters carry , and could sink them before they could get within range . |
| 15 | However , Mr Summerchild has persuaded me that taking part in a discussion of this nature might lie outside Mrs Padmore 's job description , and could involve us in difficulties with her union … |
| 16 | Nevertheless it appears from the judgment of Thorpe J. , and I do not doubt that he was right , that a dominant factor was W. 's desire to be in an environment where , as she thought , she was in control and could cure herself if and when she thought it right to do so . |
| 17 | At Bury , for instance , the abbey owned the whole site and could lay it out as it pleased . |
| 18 | In 1970 — if you were eighteen and could lay your hands on a little ready money — it was almost de rigueur to travel overland to Greece where , in an idyllic island setting , you could hang out in the coolest way imaginable with amiable drug-dealers and liberated chicks . |
| 19 | A session lasts about an hour and could cost anything from £15 to £30 depending on where you are in the country . |
| 20 | They say the report has already damaged morale and could ruin their careers . |
| 21 | He thus witnessed the birth of Saudi Arabia and could observe its growth and development at a crucial period in its history . |
| 22 | Then you would remain as a group and could observe your own customs , those which do not conflict with our law . ’ |
| 23 | But if we were gods , and immortal , and could sit ourselves comfortably to watch the years slide by , with a magnetic compass conveniently to hand next to the ambrosia and nectar , we 'd see something extraordinarily interesting . |
| 24 | Workouts featured by stars like Hollywood tough guy Dolph Lundgren and TVam 's Lizzie Webb may not help fight the flab and could land you in bed for weeks , says BBC TV 's Watchdog . |
| 25 | He hoped greatly to be able to go to Oxford in the autumn ; there should be enough money from a sale to support his mother , his brother and himself till he obtained a degree and could earn his living . |
| 26 | The career support scheme , which would be voluntary , would put people seeking advice in touch with others who had already experienced their particular problem and could give them the benefit of their knowledge . |
| 27 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 28 | This stage resembles planning your essay outline , and could give you your necessary paragraph headings ( particularly since an exam essay gives room for only a few paragraphs ) . |
| 29 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 30 | Mr Gargery asks me to tell you he will be in London soon , and could visit you at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning , at Mr Herbert Pocket 's rooms , if that is all right with you . |