Example sentences of "could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need a room with a ceramic tiled floor , a central drain , so that we could hose it down . ’ |
| 2 | If I could Chairman erm just a little bit erm about the erm conservatives erm proposals . |
| 3 | You could B&B somewhere , while I pitched my lonely caravan nearby . ’ |
| 4 | Maybe if you told me , I could kind of suss her out . |
| 5 | Only in Britain could employers already rely on a ready-made , indeed on a largely self-made , supply of skilled men with industrial experience . |
| 6 | What difference could Barling 's death make to Berlin ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Could Beatrice perhaps be getting a bit old in herself , ’ I had suggested , ‘ or could it perhaps be something to do with the accident she had as a child ? ’ |
| 8 | Could comics be used as a vehicle to present science attractively once again ? |
| 9 | On other occasions a guerrilla could snake along such cover on his stomach , his legs pressed flat , knees to the ground as he wriggled closer to enemy positions , or — like one Corporal — he squirmed away from possible capture . |
| 10 | Could Puttnam not have done more himself to change the cultural attitude of governments ? |
| 11 | Reports from the US suggest that Covia 's software will also be snapped up by Sun Microsystems Inc , which could OEM CI as an add-on to its Open Networking Computing environment . |
| 12 | Merlyn said : ‘ What possible reason could Ben have for wanting Sabine dead ? ’ |
| 13 | tried to borrow a bike for us so that we could bike round , but when she |
| 14 | Smith could yak all day in this random mode , but to the task in hand : interviewing his most favoured fellow travellers and Fall acolytes — I , Ludicrous — for the NME . |
| 15 | The failure of the insurgents to secure the country 's political and economic nerve-centres , the provision of German and Italian military aid and the resistance put up by the defenders of Republican legality had turned the insurrection into a war whose duration or outcome no one could foretell . |
| 16 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 17 | Do you think you could Sheila ? |
| 18 | Could Colin stand ? |
| 19 | Could U N troops be sent in ? |
| 20 | Only in the bosom of the PCF could Nizan breathe freely , could he begin to function effectively . |
| 21 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
| 22 | ( A passing thought : could Jenkins be persuaded to write a memoir of Wilson , on the scale of his Baldwin , perhaps , rather than a full-scale biography like his Asquith ? |
| 23 | What could Germany now do , and achieve , at sea ? |
| 24 | Also present at these meetings in various London clubs and restaurants were representatives from employers ' organizations , who recognized that to influence the Policy Unit was to influence the Prime Minister : if a minister proved unavailable , unsympathetic or intractable , they could outmanoeuvre him by enlisting Policy Unit support . |
| 25 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 26 | He believed he could outmanoeuvre and trap the English King ; he too had his spy at Godstowe to keep an eye on Corbett . |
| 27 | Could biogas plants catch on in Britain ? |
| 28 | You ought to try taking some of them , honestly they 're so easy the exams are , like history , ah , talk about easy , spartan erm , you could G C S E , P E mum |
| 29 | How could Isabel read any possibility of error into that ? |
| 30 | Here one could instance people who go to the theatre as opposed to theatre administrators , people who read books rather than people in publishing , selling or lending . |