Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that in the past any Zuwayi would have felt free to continue personally the feud with Zliten if he could allege that the peace was unsatisfactory or incomplete . |
| 2 | That stupid man — But if only she could explain before the policeman took official note of what had happened , the situation might remain relatively simple … |
| 3 | In these circumstances membership of a CU may result in large scale unemployment which could persist until the appropriate restructuring of the industrial base takes place . |
| 4 | A man who could decree that the waiters should be given a disgusting breakfast prior to serving their masters with cold ham , kedgeree , scrambled eggs with smoked salmon , grilled wild mushrooms , devilled kidneys and much , much more , was a man who deserved to have his teapot emptied over his scrofulous head . |
| 5 | In such a case where the true facts can only be known by the defence the prosecution could aver that the driver was unlicensed . |
| 6 | Before leaving the question on the nationality requirement , I would also point out in passing that , at the hearing , the Commission agreed that the flag state could stipulate that the captain of the vessel and the mate should have its nationality . |
| 7 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 8 | But the problem could could disappear if every household were equipped with ISDN , since the 16Kbps packet-switched D-channel would be ideal for interrogating the meters remotely . |
| 9 | Filtration can be a problem as bubble-nesting gouramis need relatively calm water to build in and anabantoid fry are very small and could disappear if the filter is too powerful . |
| 10 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 11 | And it occurred to me , I could make that a , a little nature reserve , very small , but erm rather like nature reserves that the Trust look after , and so erm I negotiated with the farmer |
| 12 | It could make that the central point of its election manifesto if it is so profoundly excited by it . |
| 13 | Defects from bad workmanship were potentially higher , and serious accidental damage after occupation could arise because the occupier either would not know the house was timber-framed or would not be aware of its consequences — even attempting to hang a picture could cause potentially serious damage . |
| 14 | This could arise if an aircraft crashed and there was damage to houses in the area . |
| 15 | But problems could arise if an exchange adopted a rule at board level but failed to publish it , or if a member joined the exchange after rules bulletins 1 – 50 had been issued , was not then supplied with those bulletins by the exchange , and such bulletins were not readily available on request . |
| 16 | This could arise if the plaintiff suffered negligently inflicted injuries and then refused to have a blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs . |
| 17 | erm , and , and , it could arise in many different circumstances , erm one can imagine a situation which wrongly expel erm a name from the market , well whatever the motives , that clearly distorts competition cos there 's one rule , one less competitor in the market , erm it , it 's con , it , it 's conceivable that an article eighty five argument could arise and an expel name could raise a point , whether he succeeds is another matter , but at that point and , and in relation to that he may say well I can sue you because you 've excluded me you 've restricted competition or you 've excluded a group of names |
| 18 | The latter part of this subclause is inserted to try to avoid the difficulty that could arise where a landlord declines to accept rent in order not to waive a breach of covenant by the tenant , which it has been suggested could have a similar effect of releasing the guarantor , but this is not certain . |
| 19 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 20 | Do you think it 's possible the Iraqis here living in this country could have some of these nerve gases that they could explode if the situation in Iraq gets very bad ? |
| 21 | You could guarantee that the welcoming line would be ‘ Oh ! |
| 22 | He forecast that the 1992 grain harvest would be better than the previous year , and could guarantee that the people would not go hungry during the winter . |
| 23 | * I suppose that one could consider that the crack has been blunted . |
| 24 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 25 | Either way , someone could recognise that the man at the receiving end of her hysteria was Vitor d'Arcos , and inform the media . |
| 26 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 27 | This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God . |
| 28 | They could also describe children being sent individually or in small groups , to forage for information on particular topics , and in the case of the school which monitored library use , the school could demonstrate that the range of subjects thus represented was considerable . |
| 29 | By DNaseI footprinting , we could demonstrate that the 303 bp BglI-NaeI segment ( see Fig. 1 ) , including the RARE and the 80 bp fragment , is able to bind at least two different factors , but only one , the so called footprint I , is localized in the 80 bp region , known to be necessary for full transcriptional activity . |
| 30 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |