Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The store will be built in stages and could eventually have enough room in its 30 vaults to store 6000 tonnes of spent fuel for up to 100 years . |
| 2 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 3 | He suggested once to Blanche that she could perhaps feel such chill draughts blowing from the past when others could not . |
| 4 | Another idea would be the lace anniversary , when you could perhaps arrange some cow parsley over a fabric lace background . |
| 5 | I think it may be it may be that they could perhaps get more money if the local parties affiliated separately but |
| 6 | He could perhaps take more care with his appearance , but he is handsome . |
| 7 | I mean we could all spend all day discussing that particular issue but up until the decision is made and which road they 're gon na go down we do know it 's gon na be banding but on what on what basis is it gon na be ? |
| 8 | His vehicle was called a taxi , but Virginia had privately questioned whether a bright orange mini-van , lined with fake tiger fur and blaring non-stop earsplitting calypso music , could rightfully claim that title . |
| 9 | The Conservatives faced strong opposition within their own ranks to any major changes in boundaries : they could only contain this opposition by their readiness to accept detailed amendments throughout the process . |
| 10 | I could only confess that loss in sounds |
| 11 | If that policy were applied throughout Britain , as was also said by the right hon. Gentleman , it would cost £1.2 billion — an additional cost to the taxpayer which could only mean less investment in roads . |
| 12 | He spoke slowly , his gaze never leaving Fairham , who found he could only hold that gaze for a couple of seconds at a time . |
| 13 | Husayn could only contemplate this option with equanimity if most of the Palestine refugees moved out of his territory — presumably back to Palestine , an issue considered in the next chapter . |
| 14 | And it occu It seemed to me therefore that really one could only consider this level o at a strategic issue by looking at the quality of the existing landscape and it seems to me , if the proposition is that you should locate a new settlement to the erm North in the Ryedale sector , er of Greater York , then you 're effectively turning planning on its head because I think the usual approach is to try and steer development to less attractive areas rather than put them in better quality areas . |
| 15 | I thought to myself , if I could only get that back to 2020 , how much would it be worth ! |
| 16 | The thrusting diversity of American capitalist railway operations , which had been its great strength in the nineteenth century , had become its greatest weakness in the twentieth , and not even Amtrak could entirely arrest that decline . |
| 17 | Surprised I could fucking walk this morning Ah ? |
| 18 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 19 | When the two sides had carefully sounded each other out , and all parties had ordered two rounds of drinks , they had what the agent called ‘ a very in-depth substantive discussion about very sensitive material ’ , which grew louder and louder as the band did ; in the end they could scarcely hear each other when they leaned across the table and shouted . |
| 20 | Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants ; MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts . |
| 21 | And you could just differentiate each term quite simply then . |
| 22 | Just as the 1972 Conference on the Environment and Development in Stockholm is said to have ushered in a new era of international cooperation ( at the very least , it led to the creation of the United National Environment Programme ) , so its 1992 successor could just provide all world leaders with some kind of working map for the future . |
| 23 | Possibly I could just have another word with her |
| 24 | I suppose you could just imagine that ring had slipped off your finger , that would bring a few tears . |
| 25 | You see Madam Deputy Speaker , deregulation unless we 're very careful , could just become another layer of bureaucracy with a whole new sub culture of civil servants being consulted as to whether something should be deregulated or not . |
| 26 | ‘ As all this money comes in ’ — he pointed to his list of contracts due for completion — ‘ you could progressively withdraw that money and … er , ‘ practise ’ with it . ’ |
| 27 | Although the students accepted this , and demanded only an open frontier with Romania , across which relatives could easily visit each other , some nationalists are certainly going to raise the issue . |
| 28 | Nature had simply seen fit to bestow on her a tall , long-legged and generously curvaceous frame , topping it off with a face that could easily grace any magazine cover , with its high cheekbones , slanting tawny-coloured eyes and full provocative mouth . |
| 29 | I did n't think we could possibly organize this evening , but we have . |
| 30 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |