Example sentences of "could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Exeter , the bishop 's palace was used as a bakery and the cathedral became a centre for preaching , a wall being built to divide the building in two so that Presbyterians and Independents could worship separately . |
| 2 | Above all I fail to see how one could worship God or expand one 's religious sensibilities by looking to this past . |
| 3 | Such occasions , when he could worship the Saint in question on his or her ( he had no sexual bias in these matters ) day , in a church dedicated to him or her , in an atmosphere of tallow and incense , surrounded by flickering shadows and gorgeous vestments dimly perceived — these were the red — letter days of Mr Makepeace 's life . |
| 4 | Indeed , he could modify his model by supposing that the gradient has its high point at the back edge of each segment , and that bristles point up the slope , and it would work just as well . |
| 5 | Firstly , we are offering a family the diagnosis of a lethal untreatable disorder in an apparently healthy baby ; secondly , the protocol was designed so that we could modify practice in the light of experience ; and , thirdly , families should have choice at every stage from the initial screening test to a confirmed diagnosis . |
| 6 | Experiments using the simulation model are thus made possible ; an example given earlier showed how a planner could modify a river-basin simulation model to allow for the expansion of an urban area . |
| 7 | The second aim was to assess whether , as a bulking agent , psyllium could modify echographic gastric emptying time and , in parallel , sensations of hunger and satiety . |
| 8 | We could modify either LA or SEGLAB to reduce this problem . |
| 9 | ‘ They told me they could sack me , but I do n't care , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 10 | I could sack out right away , with some scotch and a few Serafim . |
| 11 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 12 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 13 | There must be some way he could clamber up out of this pit . |
| 14 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 15 | Leading opponent , Tony Coleman , claimed the 30 jobs were a myth he could nail . |
| 16 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 17 | It appears that the precocious young of some invertebrates could reproduce without achieving adulthood . |
| 18 | He therefore decreed that before either could reproduce they must fight to the death , with the flesh from the loser being fed to deserving men . |
| 19 | I first realised that herbs could reproduce this effect — ; and later wondered if a lack of them could be responsible for some of the diseases that seem particular to fish of this area . |
| 20 | Taking place at the same time as the development of graphics capabilities was the introduction of printing devices that could reproduce the images created on the screen . |
| 21 | One of the best known followed his offer of £500 to anyone who could reproduce the box used in his box trick . |
| 22 | There was a really good profile of all the youngsters which I could reproduce if people want . |
| 23 | The idea is that it could supervise an Iraqi withdrawal or police the Kuwait-Iraq border if Saddam Hussein ordered a pull-out . |
| 24 | Some Wardens could supervise matters from the reasonable comfort of homes such as Ferniehirst outside Jedburgh ; but Hermitage castle , the ‘ Strength of Liddesdale ’ in the middle of inhospitable fells and mosses , was one of the most chill and sinister strongholds in all Scotland . |
| 25 | Employers were content to retain a cadre of single women who could supervise other women , though once into their fifties such women were at risk of being construed as ‘ too old ’ . |
| 26 | At least he was here now , and could supervise moving Jacqui to another hide-away . |
| 27 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 28 | To Branson , paying tax was ‘ a waste of money ’ when you could plough that money back into the company . |
| 29 | And so you could plough that straight back in |
| 30 | Capital could flow about freely to seek investment , and labour could migrate to look for work . |