Example sentences of "could [adv] have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could perhaps have a picture my father painted ? ’ |
| 2 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 3 | But if you 'd , if the original sum assured was only sixty thousand , you could only have a quarter , so you could only have fifteen thousand pounds maximum . |
| 4 | However , given the long lead-times in manufacture and construction , it was recognised that the standardisation could only have an effect in the forward programmes for 1950 onwards . |
| 5 | When the British Electricity Authority and its divisions took over responsibility for generation design in April 1948 , the engineers from the CEB , particularly Hacking , and Pask , his chief engineer , looked forward to strengthening the role of the centre in the design function , but that too could only have an impact in the longer run . |
| 6 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 7 | The earlier decomposition could reveal activities within the procedure that are amenable to monitoring ( such as adherence to bin-card re-ordering procedures ) , which could obviously have an effect on the success of the procedure as a whole . |
| 8 | If the chain proves popular you could soon have a Food Giant near you . |
| 9 | Perhaps we could just have a look at what sort of angles we 've got here . |
| 10 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 11 | Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man . |
| 12 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 13 | Yeah because then you could have that , you could like have a story board for that advert that you thought of . |
| 14 | ‘ If we beat Oxford and Plymouth on Saturday , we could still have a chance of automatic promotion . |
| 15 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 16 | He could always have a relapse later if necessary . |
| 17 | You could always have a bit of fun with Bill , people said . |
| 18 | T. D. You could always have a cigarette if you wanted it but if you got caught , you were in trouble . |
| 19 | I do n't know if I could ever have a relationship , the way I feel about my body . |
| 20 | A belief is indubitable if and only if no one could ever have a reason to doubt it . |
| 21 | Inanna was the most beautiful , friendly , and uncooperative horse that one could ever have the misfortune to own ; because from her looks she promised so much , but from her heart she gave so little ! |
| 22 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 23 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 24 | It could also have a bearing on its unusual style — no verbal testimonies from friends and colleagues , no old archive footage , just Van getting royally stoned on the music with some mates . |
| 25 | Cantors or animateurs could also have a place in those churches with a thriving musical tradition and they should not be regarded simply as emergency personnel . |
| 26 | We could also have the feature open ; , , , , , would be ( +open ) , all the others being ( -open ) . |
| 27 | It could also have the effect of suggesting to girls that activities society regards as ‘ male ’ are pleasurable and rewarding , and therefore encourage them to stay with the male-dominated subjects — science , technology and mathematics throughout secondary schooling . |
| 28 | A pond does n't have to be large to be effective — if it 's big enough to install a small submersible pump you could even have a fountain . |
| 29 | Throw in the maturing spin of Neil Kendrick and James Boiling and The Oval could well have the recipe to end the famine . |
| 30 | ‘ I hope I have n't held you up for too long , ’ she apologised quickly , realising that he could well have an appointment , and that he was on the point of leaving . |