Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it could [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 2 | A jagged piece of rock , which looks like it could shear a boat in two , looms out of the spray , and disappears . |
| 3 | Lawyer D's client ( the organisation ) wanted to know whether it could release the tenancy on the land without the consent of the surviving partner ( the son ) . |
| 4 | Before embarking on care proceedings a local authority should always consider whether it could improve the family situation sufficiently by the provision of services on a voluntary basis ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 3.11 ) . |
| 5 | Some Berliners want it preserved as a historic site , others fear that it could become the focus for neo-fascist demonstrators . |
| 6 | Kevin Dunion , FoE 's Scottish director , said he was delighted that Strathclyde had accepted that it could win no exemption from the European directive that bans sea dumping from the start of 1999 . |
| 7 | Military leaders in Serbia reacted angrily to the airdrop plan , warning that it could escalate the war . |
| 8 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |
| 9 | Is it because the Labour party does not believe that it could convince the people , on its own terms , that those are meritorious things to do ? |
| 10 | Assume now that the group can not sell all it can make at the normal price of £120 but division B sees that it could win a large order if it were to offer goods at £80 each . |
| 11 | Tales of Tongan royal oarsmanship had recently spread as far afield as Hawaii and Tahiti and I reasoned that it could do no harm to mention my interest , albeit one or two decades old . |
| 12 | The British Company had shown that it could play an effective role in the rougher sort of Indian politics , but there was no reason to think it would go on doing so . |
| 13 | Gynaecologist Mr Ian Mackenzie of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford , has noted that it could save the NHS between £10 and £15 million a year , which could be used to shorten waiting-lists for other forms of gynaecological care . |
| 14 | So their affair was begun , their part-time affair , as Maria took to calling it , at first only to herself , but then aloud in Luke 's presence when she discovered that it could bring a quick frown to his face . |
| 15 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 16 | By setting up a nuclear energy community at the outset , it was believed that it could provide an important impetus towards closer integration . |
| 17 | The Chesapeake Bay Program was born in 1977 and almost died before it could take a breath . |
| 18 | Her own mother contemplated such depravity with sorrow , convinced that it could do the poor creatures no good . |
| 19 | The decision has drawn protests from environmentalists , who warn that it could have a damaging effect on the Danube valley ecosystem , and the Hungarian government , which views it as a possible infringement of territorial integrity . |
| 20 | This is quite unreasonable and should be resisted as it could affect the marketability of the lease in the last five years of the term , which the tenant may find unacceptable despite the fact that its inclusion could result in a small reduction in rent on review . |
| 21 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 22 | This event would presumably precede the potentials being recorded and it could provide an explanation for the apparent referral back in time in the first set of experiments , although it does seem electrophysiologically unlikely that there could be a neural change happening sufficiently early after the triggering stimulus . |
| 23 | The programme is pitched at Fortune 1000 companies that have embraced open systems for strategic applications and the company suggests that it could develop a prototype to consolidate financial reporting from a company 's strategic business units into corporate headquarters , connecting disparate computer environments into a client-server system . |
| 24 | The programme is pitched at Fortune 1000 companies that have embraced open systems for strategic applications and the company suggests that it could develop a prototype to consolidate financial reporting from a company 's strategic business units into corporate headquarters , connecting disparate computer environments into a client-server system . |
| 25 | Proposing the motion , Stewart Day suggested that it could have a sado-masochists dungeon , a jungle room , a vicars ‘ n ’ tarts room , and so on . ’ |
| 26 | Research in America suggested that it could delay the onset of full-blown AIDS . |
| 27 | The first stage in each investigation was to list the information the committee required before it could reach a valid conclusion . |