Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 2 | Amateur radio buff Mike Bosberry , who sells hand-held scanners for Nevada Communications in Portsmouth , said : ‘ The thickest yob on the pavement could eavesdrop on mobile phones . |
| 3 | It could disregard in particular the onward march of Germany with Hitler at its head , and the sinister machinations of Stalinist Russia . |
| 4 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 5 | The warden and his wife , being owners of a Siamese cat , were not overjoyed to see Emily but they reluctantly fed her a saucer of milk , saying that she could stay for one night . |
| 6 | not really feeling the need for a conversation , wishing only that I could stay on this bench with him forever . |
| 7 | The children started at 5 and could stay until 16 . |
| 8 | The females could stay in one place , taking care of the babies with their free hands , and in return for finding her and the infants a male would have his own female always available for sex . ’ |
| 9 | It was clear that Miss Morgan 's brain had been fully engaged on what she was doing , which was pushing a client 's interest , and that such attention as she could spare from that had been centred on her forthcoming marriage . |
| 10 | The Library could budget for phased installation of entry level systems within the next three years by spending a proportion of its budget in each of these years , and working on these systems would give us the expertise to proceed to development phase . |
| 11 | Similarly , we get 12 ! =479001 600 and 22=4096 for the edges and a total of 8 ! 3 8 12 ! 2 12 =519 024 039 293 878 272 000 patterns which one could construct in this way . |
| 12 | IN those circumstances , the nuclear element could remain between 20 and 25 per cent — based on a programme of replacing the older Magnox stations as they reach the end of their useful life — while the balance would be taken up by renewable energy . |
| 13 | No one could cavil with that , either then , or in historical retrospect . |
| 14 | In 1793 a woman with two active children could earn between 4 and 5s ( 20-25p ) a week . |
| 15 | But it must have been a temptation in poor working-class communities , where virginity in any case was not sacred , where the stigma against extra-marital sex was weak , and where a prostitute could earn in half an hour what a respectable girl might earn in a week . |
| 16 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 17 | There were certainly regions where this situation was developing — the new cotton districts of south Lancashire for example , and in the Potteries where females unknown in the industry before 1760 could earn from 12s ( 60p ) to £2 a week by the end of the century . |
| 18 | More in a year than I could earn from four novels . |
| 19 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 20 | Arthur Young suggested that children at the Askrigg lead mines could earn from 1s 10d ( 9p ) to 4s 2d ( 21p ) a week in the 1770s . |
| 21 | Nothing , nothing , could compensate for that . |
| 22 | Convinced that no amount of prosperity could compensate for appalling living conditions , Napoleon II resolved to sweep away this insalubrious heartland in order to create light , air , cleanliness and ease of movement . |
| 23 | The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations . |
| 24 | For it had come , and perhaps , but only perhaps , she could build on that . |
| 25 | This was already happening but he felt neighbourhood help scheme could build on this current goodwill . |
| 26 | He could glean from each category what was happening and , of course at a convenient time , he would test the aircraft itself and then put it on line so that the bombload could be installed before mid-afternoon or early evening . |
| 27 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 28 | Like the producers of filmed drama they relied heavily on nineteenth-century models and conventions but obviously mime , pantomime , and other comic traditions by their very nature could adapt to silent cinema even more effortlessly than melodrama and popular fiction . |
| 29 | The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows . |
| 30 | The numbers of non-political refugees could double to 80,000 when the sailing season starts in the South China Sea in February , the Government argues . |