Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mugabe said on May 2 , 1990 , that the government would amend the Constitution to speed up and simplify the redistribution of land , following the lapsing in April 1990 of the entrenched clauses of the Lancaster House agreement of 1980 , which stated that the government could only buy land which was freely offered for sale . |
| 2 | We could only use candles it night if we were working , because they were in very short supply . |
| 3 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 4 | At present , there are too few places that cater properly for tourists , yet we could easily create facilities which would attract more visitors , and encourage them to spend more , too . |
| 5 | There they could easily obtain coal which was used as fuel and as a raw material , various salts from a mine below the works and from brine wells , and large amounts of water from the River Tees . |
| 6 | No one technique could possibly give results which would characterise Scotland as a whole . |
| 7 | Well I mean er we could always have raffles ourselves anyway ! |
| 8 | Really , if such a preposterous notion could ever make sense Everything fitted . |
| 9 | He could distinctly hear voices which seemed to be coming from the parcels office next door . |
| 10 | It was , therefore , given wide powers of managing and disposing of land ; but it could also develop land itself . |
| 11 | Erm , I should also say that bit about some of us were even gods , erm that also is erm there are some options there on translation erm you could also say men who were different and particular , that is we were and erm particular humans and we were gods . |
| 12 | Erm whereas at this stage the four of us could probably find accommodation which was n't that much more expensive erm but to have the actual focus for the for the local party . |
| 13 | Looking for an investment in a sure snow area , you could well consider Morillon which links with Flaine , Samoens and Les Carroz . |
| 14 | She could cheerfully throttle Janine herself ! |
| 15 | The Court found that the government could legitimately return assets which were now in state ownership ; however , it objected to proposals to accompany the return of confiscated lands with payment of only partial compensation to present private owners ( principally farm co-operatives ) . |
| 16 | On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable . |
| 17 | It always surprised him that , apparently taking no account of him , she could yet recall comments he had made months earlier . |