Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could buy there skiers in glass bottles … clockwork marmots , goat horns … sunglasses , imitation butter-churns , my books . ’ |
| 2 | He did not have the military power to offer protection to Englishmen overseas ; if the Spanish from the south were to attack English colonies , they would have to defend themselves or rely on English diplomacy , because Charles could send neither ships nor troops across the Atlantic for help . |
| 3 | An agency costing £6 million a year to run could bring hundred-fold benefits . |
| 4 | The karkadann was strong and vicious , and could slay even elephants . |
| 5 | Heated in the Montgolfier-style , air would lift about 15lbs for every 1,000 cubic feet of volume , while the same volume of hydrogen could lift about 70lbs of payload . |
| 6 | Then the boat went down between the waves and she could see only mountains of wild water everywhere . |
| 7 | The railway could take both passengers and freight off the roads reducing the need for a bypass . |
| 8 | A customer who produced a credit card could take away goods without payment on the implied promise to pay within a month , and if they did ( which the vast majority did ) they would not be charged interest for being lent the amount they would otherwise have had to pay across the counter . |
| 9 | The launch of the world 's first infrared satellite could change completely astronomers ' ideas of the skies at these wavelengths |
| 10 | Yeah you say you you you could go probably weeks and never go into it . |
| 11 | Excluding tail , the tank could hold around 48″ of fish ( water surface area of 576 square inches — 48″x12″ — divided by 12 ) . |
| 12 | As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations . |
| 13 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 14 | Another aspect of Qaddafi 's theory of democracy is that parties were forbidden because they could only represent , and could represent only sectors of the people . |