Example sentences of "could [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 2 | I had wondered how a man in his right mind could want to be with me and decided that no girl in her right mind would want to be with him . |
| 3 | For a flying delivery to be effected the Vulcan Display Team crew could need to be kept would need to be kept current on XH558 ( they must at least fly every 28 days under current procedures ) which would necessitate check-flights until a buyer is established . |
| 4 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 5 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 6 | On that evidence , therefore , and in spite of last night 's ominous phrases that the government would not tolerate ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ , it seems that the statement is more likely to be a specific warning — that people breaking in to armouries to steal weapons or ammunition could expect to be met by physical force — than a sign that the military are planning a political takeover . |
| 7 | In the late afternoon the Committee pulled its favourite form of persuasion : it went into secret session , with a direction that if he did n't sing in secret he could expect to be jailed for contempt of Congress ( i.e. the committee ) . |
| 8 | That is to say , each dug-in group of British soldiers could expect to be facing the same dug-in group of Germans for many months . |
| 9 | the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and |
| 10 | Other British manufacturing industries which could expect to be hit by the changes include car tyres , paper goods , ceramics , glassware , pipes , and CDs and audio tapes . |
| 11 | Information processing executives could expect to be asked how their deals compared to the deals others were getting . |
| 12 | Those who remained loyal could expect to be generously rewarded , in position if not always in money . |
| 13 | Branson was as awed as anyone could expect to be at the first sight of their own Jumbo Jet . |
| 14 | But , as it was , he could expect to be made Solicitor-General and found a safe seat . |
| 15 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 16 | STEWART Renton was amazed when doctors told him he had broken his leg in two places — and he could expect to be off work for three months ! |
| 17 | Those who left service for marriage were as often as not entering an economically less secure situation : rarely one in which they could expect to be " kept " in comfort . |
| 18 | He could expect to be " buried , his children to be apprenticed , his wife to be assisted in childbirth and his daughter helped to recover payments from the putative father of her illegitimate child " . |
| 19 | More and more governments now demanded diplomatic services systematically and even rigidly organised , in which efficiency carried more weight and merit could expect to be rewarded more effectively . |
| 20 | Such a threat may constitute a bluff in that the prime minister would have more to lose if an election was called than would most MPs ( the PM could lose office : most seats are safe seats and so most MPs could expect to be reelected ) , but nonetheless it has proved a potent influence in determining parliamentary behaviour . |
| 21 | It may , however , be that even without this provision , a landlord who had granted a licence to a tenant signed by an authorised director could expect to be estopped from denying its effectiveness . |
| 22 | In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 23 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 24 | He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers . |
| 25 | List at least five things that you could do to be a bargain for your partner . |
| 26 | He says , Well really , he says , you it could do to be changed . |
| 27 | And then the baby , and then not the baby , but there was an us I could feel to be there every day when I woke up . |
| 28 | The railway station would now be seen as a significant strategic point to which Whites could withdraw to be rescued by train-borne troops and from which the forces could fan out into disaffected areas . |
| 29 | With far more reason than Harold Wilson in 1964 , she could claim to be running ( mutatis mutandis ) a Bolshevik revolution with a Tsarist Cabinet . |
| 30 | On its recovery from the Plague the city could claim to be one of the most progressive in Europe , with trade in leather and metal goods , knives and weapons , as well as silk . |