Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , several scientists supported a hypothesis put forward by John Woods , senior marine scientist at the UK Natural Environmental Research Council ( NERC ) , who suggested ( in a paper presented to the British Association for the Advancement of Science on Sept. 14 ) that the ability of ocean plankton to absorb CO2 could fall drastically once temperatures began to rise . |
| 2 | Fears are now rife that the price could plunge well below 30p by the end of the year . |
| 3 | I could sense how badly Foo wanted the Eddie . |
| 4 | It had been prevented from leaving after Serbs said the convoy could bring out only women and children . |
| 5 | Sorry I do n't think even the BBC could look that far North after all they 're having probs seing past London and Scumchester . |
| 6 | I could see right away Tom was looking for his caddie , and so I thought , ‘ This is it — do or die . ’ |
| 7 | BTEC had to call on FE colleges to create closer working relationships with schools than most existing links provided — and the Council would only authorize a school to run a First Diploma course if it was satisfied that it could provide not only teachers with experience in working in business or in industry but also specialized accommodation and equipment . |
| 8 | Coventry possessed two big ones with assets totalling £321 , while the little village of Burnham Sutton , Norfolk , had no fewer than four , though they could scrape together only £11 . |
| 9 | So , by measuring the height of the sun , they could tell how far north or south of the Equator ( an imaginary line round the middle of the earth ) they were . |
| 10 | First , emphasize the importance of extinct groups ( n =29 , marked with an asterisk ) , many of which are generally regarded as major bodyplans , but may have morphological characters that could reveal more clearly relationships between disparate extant phyla . |
| 11 | He was half man and half fish ; because he could live on both land and sea he was created Lord of the World and renamed Bel by the Sumerians . |
| 12 | , we went in the August and they were back by September , so he could start back well school and I 'd been in , in the summer holidays and they said and I felt poor little bastard , got to start a new school , he ai n't gon na know anybody |
| 13 | Mr King reckons that the net increase could be big : if 4m take out a TESSA , private saving could rise by about 30% . |