Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was widespread scepticism about whether private financial institutions could successfully channel funds from lenders to borrowers , and general agreement that the IMF should play a major role .
2 Since no one could imagine that in these circumstances or in any other circumstances anyone could successfully impersonate Ramsey , the ritual was a piece of legal nothing which allowed a Protestant agitator the chance of publicity which might help his own cause but must also help Ramsey .
3 Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome .
4 These could presumably include methods not involving the use of letters rogatory at all , though given the legal traditions of the region such radicalism seems unlikely .
5 To do the navy justice , however , it must again be emphasised that powerful interest could rarely secure promotion for the unqualified , and in the naval service some ability was a prerequisite for advancement .
6 By arguments of this kind , biological or similar arguments could coherently yield constraints on social goals , personal ideals , possible institutions and so forth .
7 Lewis came to the faith by means of what one could loosely term Neo-Platonism .
8 The bottom line could eventually mean demands for higher council tax bills .
9 In total nearly 40 households on the estate serving RAF Brize Norton could eventually face eviction .
10 DEC claims that its MIPS DECstation and DECsystems machines could eventually run OSF/1 .
11 Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area .
12 In psychiatric research and theory , self-knowledge could eventually replace objectivity as the basis for understanding .
13 Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages .
14 It is only to be expected that there are not too many IT experts around who could effectively advise policy makers and managers , and design IT systems .
15 If Labour fails to break through , Mr Kinnock could rightly blame Ms Twelves and her like .
16 They could suddenly reject glamour and create their own , strong images .
17 She could suddenly see years back , when her dad took her to smell the tar-bucket .
18 If Craig were to show up now , he could perhaps bale uncle out of the difficulties .
19 I could perhaps mention titles only : technology , choice of technology and the link with the again the unemployment problem ; fields like rural development planning and erm the associated questions of rural industrialization of the balance between town and country , of migration from the country to the town and it 's implications for both country and town .
20 I 'll be talking later on in Congress about the fact that we could perhaps bring amendments and that would help the wording on things .
21 I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought .
22 Umm , err … to make it more fun for both of us , we could perhaps have dinner and you could show me how you 'd behave in a date situation .
23 The two agreed to set up a ‘ process ’ or ‘ structure ’ by which the two governments could together study issues such as the future of NATO and the Western European Union , British-French nuclear co-operation and joint positions on disarmament .
24 Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions .
25 Perhaps that pervasive sense of a struggle for existence , a natural selection in which , after all , victory or even survival proved both fitness and the essentially moral qualities which could alone achieve fitness , reflects an adaptation of the old bourgeois ethic to the new situation .
26 Emphasis on better design , better training , individualised care , more interest relatives ' needs , input from the rehabilitative professions , and the resiting of long stay care nearer to patients ' homes could greatly enhance care and morale , allowing such wards to look after small numbers of severely disturbed residents extremely well .
27 I could better bear disgrace in solitude , do n't you see ? ’
28 It terrified her , that she could so lose control in the arms of this man who was everything she despised , who despised her , who wanted her for what he thought she was .
29 Right , now , we could all become self sufficient , alright .
30 We could all have rivers brimming with salmon if you wish .
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