Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus by changing Bank rate the authorities could directly change banks ' interest rates . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Those with interests in both disciplines could still attend events of each separately . |
| 6 | National groups could only find outlets for their own beer by acquiring smaller companies and shutting down their brewing plant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He also stressed that : ‘ 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' ( Enthoven , 1985b ) . |
| 12 | Muccio recommended on 1 April 1950 that Rhee be warned that autocratic actions could adversely affect relations with Washington . |
| 13 | By arguments of this kind , biological or similar arguments could coherently yield constraints on social goals , personal ideals , possible institutions and so forth . |
| 14 | Musical savants could easily learn pieces by Greig which follow classical rules , but were stumped by the less structured avant garde works of Bartok . |
| 15 | Dr Jaleel said he was afraid the moves could also hit services offered in different parts of the region covered by a single consortium . |
| 16 | Potentially , the heads of some federal ministries and departments could also become members , if nominated by the President and approved by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 17 | By improving the working environment of teachers , governors could indirectly improve relationships between staff and pupils . |
| 18 | In other words , provided that the liquidity trap is not reached and that investment remains sufficiently responsive to interest rate reductions , falling prices could conceivably establish levels of expenditure and real income which correspond to their full employment values , E * ; and Y * ; respectively . |
| 19 | Commercial coach trips to the specialist gardens should be encouraged , and we or our Friends could also organize tours . |
| 20 | If liberty and equality were birth-rights , it remained only to establish fraternity. : for , fear having been cast out not by perfect love but by plenty , all men could now become brothers and women sisters . |
| 21 | Morrissey found it terrible that people were so rigidly divided , that men could only like men 's things and women women 's things . |
| 22 | The police could also take prisoners , and more than 25,000 people were behind bars in Los Angeles , nearly all of them black or Latino . |
| 23 | The police could only cover accidents , not doctors ' referrals . |
| 24 | The police could only cover accidents , not doctors referrals . |
| 25 | Alongside the usual diet of methodology and administration , in-service courses could profitably include discussions on policy . |
| 26 | Multiple screens can offer a range of sources and screens could also include questions and exercises , historical information , or secondary sources as well as primary source material . |
| 27 | Ministers could also face congregations split over questions of finance , doctrine or politics — the last especially after 1886 . |
| 28 | The Commission and/or the Council of Ministers could formally issue regulations , directives , decisions , recommendations and opinions . |
| 29 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 30 | Thieves could also take cattle for their own agricultural purposes . |