Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty years ago , Debussy fans could only buy records of this or that piano piece from the Préludes , Estampes , Children 's Corner and so on , and I remember my pleasure as a child in acquiring HMV 's 12-inch shellac disc of Rubinstein playing the Prélude from Pour le piano ( labelled as ‘ Prelude in A minor ’ ) coupled with Ravel 's ‘ Forlane ’ from Le tombeau de Couperin . |
| 2 | Even where books were appropriate and the student keen , a lack of funds could often limit purchase . |
| 3 | Foreigners could also buy property , but could only purchase land leasehold . |
| 4 | Ironically , the evidence provided by Cartesian vivisectors , who had already demonstrated the anatomical and physiological similarities between humans and non-humans , gave Bentham and his followers sufficient grounds for believing that animals could indeed experience pain and pleasure ( Serpell , 1986 ; Ryder , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Once more , the poorest districts could least afford provision from their own funds . |
| 6 | One can , for instance , easily imagine circumstances in which oral utterances including recollections from different times and places are , as it were , placed side by side as in a debating chamber and where the listeners could then recognise contradictions and employ their ‘ critical ’ faculties . |
| 7 | Emphasis on better design , better training , individualised care , more interest relatives ' needs , input from the rehabilitative professions , and the resiting of long stay care nearer to patients ' homes could greatly enhance care and morale , allowing such wards to look after small numbers of severely disturbed residents extremely well . |
| 8 | Starting a trip that was once only the stuff of his dreams and prayers , the Pontiff said Lithuanians could now enjoy freedom ‘ after a long period of sufferings , trials and martyrdom . ’ |
| 9 | In any case primaries could well give rise to organized campaigning , too expensive to be envisaged by all but the well-heeled . |
| 10 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 11 | Even the greatest nobles could only gain admittance by sending in presents of large sums of money : ‘ whosoever gets enamoured of her gets sucked into the whirlpool of her demands , ’ writes Dargah Quli Khan , ‘ and brings ruin upon himself and his house . |
| 12 | But with the increasing radicalness of local authorities , many vigorously proclaiming sectional interests , such interference by local authorities could also endanger majority interests . |
| 13 | Thus by changing Bank rate the authorities could directly change banks ' interest rates . |
| 14 | There was widespread scepticism about whether private financial institutions could successfully channel funds from lenders to borrowers , and general agreement that the IMF should play a major role . |
| 15 | Those with interests in both disciplines could still attend events of each separately . |
| 16 | But the industry consensus yesterday was that the outlook remained gloomy amid worries that a Labour government 's economic policies could further depress sales . |
| 17 | These activities could well take place in other areas , but the impression given in Team D was that this kind of informal or semi-formal engagement with vulnerable sections of the community , recorded only patchily , constituted a prominent part of the social work approach . |
| 18 | Higher taxes could well sink Mr Kaifu with the voters : a 3% consumption tax in 1989 lost the ruling party the upper house . |
| 19 | If a new bus station is built next to Waverley Station to replace St Andrews Sq ( which seems a good idea ) , coaches could then use South Bridge as the main route out to the south ( as they do at present — but it 's very congested ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | National groups could only find outlets for their own beer by acquiring smaller companies and shutting down their brewing plant . |
| 22 | As a result of this , large manufacturers operating a ‘ pull ’ strategy have been able to exercise control over their distributive intermediaries ; such intermediaries could only dismiss demand created through advertising and branding at the risk of losing custom . |
| 23 | The revelation of these differentials could well produce ill-feeling . |
| 24 | To the wealth they received from their estates and taxation , successful Merovingians could also add plunder and tribute from neighbouring peoples . |
| 25 | Youngsters who had hitherto been isolated on farms and factories could now take part in informed discussion on a wide variety of subjects . |
| 26 | The two agreed to set up a ‘ process ’ or ‘ structure ’ by which the two governments could together study issues such as the future of NATO and the Western European Union , British-French nuclear co-operation and joint positions on disarmament . |
| 27 | Nor tenderness either , but more a wistful thought of a better world where such things as new beginnings could actually take place , and which he could never realistically expect to see . |
| 28 | Endotoxins could then activate monocytes with the release of cytokines ( tumour necrosis factor and interleukin-1 ) resulting in an inflammatory cascade and the systemic clinical and biochemical features of inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 29 | This assumption that films had to be bland to be entertaining , and refusal to acknowledge that movies could usefully enable audiences to deal with fears and nightmares , went along with an unwillingness to acknowledge that audience tastes and sensitivities were being shifted by television . |
| 30 | The theory behind such a scheme — which can better be called ‘ market socialism ’ than ‘ privatisation ’ — is that the managers could then buy services from producers who offered the best value . |