Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm optimistic — a pessimist could never support Arsenal ! ’ |
| 2 | China 's view was that Taiwan could only enter GATT as part of China . |
| 3 | In the event , Aunt Sarah 's voice was wonderfully steadying , bringing back the untidy , comfortable living room in Coniston with such vividness that Ruth could almost smell Uncle Nick 's slippers scorching in front of the fire . |
| 4 | Ruth could never understand Charlotte 's unwillingness to let her help with the baby . |
| 5 | The degree of overvaluation of a currency versus the dollar could also reflect McDonald 's attaining higher margins abroad than in the United States . |
| 6 | Mauriac could only explain de Gaulle 's decision as the product of impatience . |
| 7 | Wilcox and Hill set up the move , Stowell could only block Shearer 's shot and Sellars followed up to put Rovers ahead . |
| 8 | In 1795 John Aikin could still describe Preston as ‘ a handsome , well-built town … rendered gay by assemblies and other places of amusement , suited to the genteel style of the inhabitants ’ . |
| 9 | Clearly this measure could significantly enhance US enforcement mechanisms . |
| 10 | And the change could also increase Moore 's chances of a place in the Test line-up . |
| 11 | Higher taxes could well sink Mr Kaifu with the voters : a 3% consumption tax in 1989 lost the ruling party the upper house . |
| 12 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 13 | The Austrians would not accept an eviction ; the Russians could only remove Ferdinand , if he did not resign , at the cost of a general war . |
| 14 | With a single currency in place , that could no more happen than the Government of the United Kingdom could today allow Wales or Scotland to go off and fight a war of its own . |
| 15 | DEC claims that its MIPS DECstation and DECsystems machines could eventually run OSF/1 . |
| 16 | His father could never remember Endill 's name . |
| 17 | His stance could further embarrass Mr Major . |
| 18 | Injury and suspension could now give Walter Smith 's team a vulnerability on two fronts that tests even their noticeable capacity for ignoring logic and achieving results that fly in the face of realism . |
| 19 | The management and staff of LASMO Colombia were honoured by the visit , which reinforces the widely held belief within head office and in Bogota that Colombia could well become LASMO 's third core area in the near future . ’ |
| 20 | By day a woman could safely walk Brussels ' streets , but at night the pavements became dangerous . |
| 21 | ‘ No baby could ever replace James , ’ she says . |
| 22 | ‘ No baby could ever replace James , ’ says Mrs Bulger . |
| 23 | If Labour fails to break through , Mr Kinnock could rightly blame Ms Twelves and her like . |
| 24 | Although buses could still use Bondgate and Blackwellgate , both councils would look into the problem of bus congestion in the town centre , he said . |
| 25 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 26 | After a visit to Iran in October Franc Horvat , the federal Secretary for Foreign Economic Relations , said that Iran could well become Yugoslavia 's most important trading partner among the developing countries . |
| 27 | Lydia could quite see Beuno maddeningly getting himself martyred on some trivial point of principle , or overturning a regime with his angelic intransigence . |
| 28 | Chief Lebanese delegate Suhayl Shammas said that Lebanon could only address Israel 's security concerns within the framework of UN Security Council Resolution 425 . |
| 29 | But it was such an inspired run the selectors could still give Matthew the nod for the English Schools . |
| 30 | Yet increased defence spending could only injure Britain 's economic recovery . |