Example sentences of "could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 2 | I first realised that herbs could reproduce this effect — ; and later wondered if a lack of them could be responsible for some of the diseases that seem particular to fish of this area . |
| 3 | Employers were content to retain a cadre of single women who could supervise other women , though once into their fifties such women were at risk of being construed as ‘ too old ’ . |
| 4 | To Branson , paying tax was ‘ a waste of money ’ when you could plough that money back into the company . |
| 5 | Benveniste et al showed that < was susceptible to lipase C and D , and Moreau et al reported that pentagastrin could enhance gastric lipase activity in humans . |
| 6 | The increase is slightly less in the case of beverages , which is what one would expect given that wine stocks could service two establishments more easily than food ones . |
| 7 | Or you could stay another year at school or college and re-take the subjects you failed . |
| 8 | If doctors could know for certain which individuals would develop the disease , they could treat potential diabetics before the process takes hold . |
| 9 | Red-cell damage , for example , could be a side-effect of the release of the free-oxygen radicals , which could damage normal cells as well as infected ones . |
| 10 | Ozone loss could damage immune systems |
| 11 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 12 | Besides , women workers might be cheaper , but too many depressed breadwinners could damage national morale , and morale needed to be high for what was coming . |
| 13 | Shortly before the dockworkers ' strike the then armed forces Chief of Staff Gen. Sunthorn had reportedly warned that privatization could damage national security . |
| 14 | The agreements also allow the EC to impose ‘ safeguard measures ’ — restrictions — on surges of imports it thinks could damage local producers . |
| 15 | In late 1976 , Radio Telefis Eireann , the Irish state television service , decided to produce a documentary on Lebanon and asked me if I could locate any films that depicted the country in the days of peace . |
| 16 | A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R . |
| 17 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 18 | Rachel believed that mechanistic science could explain all phenomena , even those of the heart and soul ; Rachel would never have forgiven her , the last place of safety and affection would have been taken away . |
| 19 | Now , if child survival were simply a question of affluence as you might think it was , there 's no way you could explain these figures . |
| 20 | However it was then pointed out by a biologist that tiny movements by the plant could explain these variations . |
| 21 | Only in rats subjected to stress did bFGF ( given subcutaneously in a large dose ) cause a small but significant attenuation of the mucosal lesions and this was accompanied by increased gastric blood flow suggesting that the maintenance of gastric circulation in stressed rats could explain this protection . |
| 22 | Grain farmers have a once-a-year production and sale cycle , and any crop failure could affect individual farming businesses , leaving the nation to import up to £2,000 million of replacement grain ! |
| 23 | The consequence was that the company no longer had to accept the market price for its products but could affect that price by varying the output of the product . |
| 24 | The dictates of these three organisations could affect 600,000 businesses alone . |
| 25 | And a report to Darlington borough councillors says the plans could affect small housing developments to the south of Court Arcade . |
| 26 | There are many factors that could affect such expectations : |
| 27 | Following a decision by the Supreme Court in September 1989 to close the investigation into the West German commune , Colonia Dignidad [ see pp. 36346 ; 36932 ] , on the grounds that no crimes had been discovered there which could affect international relations , the West German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , on Sept. 26 announced that he would be taking the issue to the UN Commission on Human Rights . |
| 28 | ‘ Proposed noise limits will force all air-cooled machines off the road , which could affect smaller manufacturers , ’ he said . |
| 29 | But the truly independently-minded MPs are the sort of Conservatives who turned out Neville Chamberlain in 1940 and whose mutterings in the Smoking Room could affect Conservative premiers. and the kind of Labour members with the outside income or the zeal who saw through the European Communities Bill . |
| 30 | The user must not switch off the computer before this option is chosen as this could affect further use of the files on disk . |