Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Amateur radio buff Mike Bosberry , who sells hand-held scanners for Nevada Communications in Portsmouth , said : ‘ The thickest yob on the pavement could eavesdrop on mobile phones . |
| 3 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 4 | The warden and his wife , being owners of a Siamese cat , were not overjoyed to see Emily but they reluctantly fed her a saucer of milk , saying that she could stay for one night . |
| 5 | not really feeling the need for a conversation , wishing only that I could stay on this bench with him forever . |
| 6 | The females could stay in one place , taking care of the babies with their free hands , and in return for finding her and the infants a male would have his own female always available for sex . ’ |
| 7 | The Library could budget for phased installation of entry level systems within the next three years by spending a proportion of its budget in each of these years , and working on these systems would give us the expertise to proceed to development phase . |
| 8 | Similarly , we get 12 ! =479001 600 and 22=4096 for the edges and a total of 8 ! 3 8 12 ! 2 12 =519 024 039 293 878 272 000 patterns which one could construct in this way . |
| 9 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 10 | More in a year than I could earn from four novels . |
| 11 | Arthur Young suggested that children at the Askrigg lead mines could earn from 1s 10d ( 9p ) to 4s 2d ( 21p ) a week in the 1770s . |
| 12 | The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations . |
| 13 | He could glean from each category what was happening and , of course at a convenient time , he would test the aircraft itself and then put it on line so that the bombload could be installed before mid-afternoon or early evening . |
| 14 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 15 | Like the producers of filmed drama they relied heavily on nineteenth-century models and conventions but obviously mime , pantomime , and other comic traditions by their very nature could adapt to silent cinema even more effortlessly than melodrama and popular fiction . |
| 16 | The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows . |
| 17 | In effect , according to the NERC , this suggested that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere could double within 40 years . |
| 18 | Ofwat , the water industry watchdog in England and Wales , has warned that water bills could double in real terms by the year 2005 because of the cost of meeting environmental regulations . |
| 19 | For instance , if the parties do not want the expert to consider any evidence other than that contained in their submissions , and do not want him to make his own independent investigations , they could stipulate to that effect in the expert clause . |
| 20 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 21 | Today is national Save Our Libraries day and campaigners are warning that many could disappear without more funding . |
| 22 | As it was not yet open , she sat on the step beside a broken box of rotting plums and watched the market traders going about their business : they all seemed to be in their usual mood of precarious good humour which could splinter at any moment into invective and menacing gesture . |
| 23 | They squat on ragged patches of grass like abandoned containers , painted bright colours , stuffed with more than anyone could want of Do-It-Yourself Equipment , Garden Furniture or , in one case , pure Leather . |
| 24 | Editing could make for better sound . |
| 25 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 26 | My father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip . |
| 27 | The unintended consequences of the diminished role of the MCC were to erode the very functions of Field Chairs which made the post worthwhile , to make them less informed by removing opportunity for MCC debate and replacing it with reports of MMRC , debates , and to reduce the contribution that fields could make to Modular Course development . |
| 28 | What is the total range of possible adjustments which man theoretically could make to those fluctuations ? |
| 29 | Even as far back as 1978 the white paper on the nationalized industries welcomed the development of audit committees and the contribution they could make to improved efficiency . |
| 30 | There are various complaints one could make about this division , most of which are justified . |