Example sentences of "[adj] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could also suggest candidate words in conjunction with other information , if the unknown word is a content word . |
| 2 | I certainly hope not , as this could well signal problems for the King of Major Championships . |
| 3 | For example , if the optimal solution of the LP has 40 non-integer components , there are 2&sup40 ; or about 10¹2 ; solutions to test and this could well take years , even on a very fast computer . |
| 4 | This could obviously cause problems when information is recorded electronically , since any printout will necessarily be a copy of the original . |
| 5 | Certainly both groups find that p53 levels rise following radiation , and this could specifically activate transcription of apoptosis-inducing genes . |
| 6 | Some could even accept Spencer 's philosophy of progress through struggle , because it seemed to offer an updated version of the Protestant work ethic in which thrift and industry were rewarded in this world as well as the next . |
| 7 | Some of the Area Board chairmen could not help noticing that their colleagues who shouted loudest could sometimes induce appeasement , Citrine and Self seeming to show more regard for consensus than for the merits of the case . |
| 8 | Also , Prussia was only one of a series of German states and as such could hardly take advantage of the rapidly developing and highly lucrative Atlantic trade . |
| 9 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 10 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 11 | These could presumably include methods not involving the use of letters rogatory at all , though given the legal traditions of the region such radicalism seems unlikely . |
| 12 | Once on the market , says Robert Orr , of Jones Lang Wootton , a London-based firm of chartered surveyors , these could quickly depress rents . |
| 13 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 14 | If one believes this , then the attraction of a fixed-rate mortgage in 1992 could easily prove fool 's gold . |
| 15 | The Grummit-Maker and Tube Weekly " may not have the glamour of a national daily , but the opinion or recommendation of the editor of the former could actually bring business to your company . |
| 16 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 17 | But the wave of publications of this kind which began in the 1850s could only gather strength as the century went on and public interest in foreign policy questions grew . |
| 18 | But a monarch with a mind of his , or her , own could certainly exercise choice , at least over the major posts . |