Example sentences of "and could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 2 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 3 | I licked my lips and could already taste the salt ; my hair was whipped into a cone . |
| 4 | The attacks on Israel — and the war in general — are making a deep impression on Iraq 's neighbours and could yet detach the Arab members of the alliance . |
| 5 | But the speculators have tasted blood and could yet force a devaluation of the franc . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm so pleased he got round , ’ remarked Miss Sanders , who was hobbling around with her left foot in a plastic bag after breaking her ankle in a schooling accident and could scarcely bring herself to watch the race . |
| 7 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 8 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 9 | Its volume of 7443 million cubic metres is greater than any other British lake and could comfortably immerse every man , woman , and child on Earth three times over . |
| 10 | Use of the above method clearly has some weaknesses , the most obvious being that ours were not ‘ blind ’ assessments and could clearly have been influenced by our preconceptions about the subjects . |
| 11 | Following a successful pilot in Hull Branch , Cash Flo is being promoted throughout the north east of England and could eventually go nationwide . |
| 12 | Starving myself was dangerous and could eventually mean I might starve to death . |
| 13 | Worse than this , it will tend to rub the identification markings off the components , and could eventually result in more serious damage , such as detached leads . |
| 14 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A new car component plant will provide seats for both Rover and Honda , and could eventually employ more than two hundred and fifty people . |
| 17 | But the ‘ hairy monsters ’ which no one wants at the moment are also tremendous value , and could eventually rise in value . |
| 18 | That would cause an outcry and add several percentage points to inflation , and could easily check spending and strangle the recovery in its cradle . |
| 19 | She had planned to walk home , but accepted , on the front steps , an offer of a lift from Teddy Lazenby and his wife Delia , who lived in Campden Square and could easily drop her off . |
| 20 | Children play on the bridge and could easily fall into the water . ’ |
| 21 | They had not , they said , but they had a lot of reliable relatives and could easily find out where he was and deliver any message I wanted to send him , if he was there . |
| 22 | They make the rule book mentality into an art form and could easily get a PhD in bureaucracy . |
| 23 | A kestrel is even smaller than a barn owl — it may only weigh six to seven ounces , and could easily lose a quarter of an ounce overnight in cold weather because of the energy it uses up trying to maintain its body heat . |
| 24 | Although she will not be running a great deal , I think she will win a decent prize and could easily prove top flight . |
| 25 | Border , too , it is rumoured , is nearing the end of his career and could easily survive at great profit in the county scene having also tasted life in England with Essex . |
| 26 | ‘ She is only a little girl and could easily have been attacked while she was standing there alone . ’ |
| 27 | The CDs average about 55 minutes and could easily have permitted inclusion of all the Tangos recorded by Domingo or all the selections from Wunderlich 's Heliodor Viennese Song recital . |
| 28 | He also knew that this disastrous episode was entirely his own fault and could easily have been avoided . |
| 29 | Everton , inspired throughout by Peter Beardsley , killed off the game by romping into a 3–0 lead in 38 minutes and could easily have doubled it . |
| 30 | 0–0 at half time ( Poland had a couple of chances ) was 3–0 to us at the end — and could easily have been 5 or 6 . |