Example sentences of "[conj] it could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton said that the work should ideally enable prisoners to earn a remission on part of their sentence , or it could earn money to pay compensation to victims . |
| 2 | Kenya could encourage further ‘ dependent ’ exports , or it could provide assistance for local producers to gain the necessary skills . |
| 3 | By the mid 1880s the Japanese government felt that it could reopen negotiations concerning revision of the unequal treaties . |
| 4 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 5 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 6 | If it can keep up the pace , ICL 's hope is that it could overtake IBM in the UK by 1996 . |
| 7 | They were people who thought It was important — and that it could make money . |
| 8 | ‘ What is most worrying about this kind of action is that it could complicate matters if someone else were to decide to intervene , say in Romania . |
| 9 | A call by the Netherlands , Germany and Denmark for more generous fiscal incentives for cleaner cars to cut emissions faster was resisted by other EC countries , including the UK , on grounds that it could distort competition . |
| 10 | Each activity was assessed in relation to the function that it could form part of , and whether a functional group currently existed that could be responsible for it . |
| 11 | These can harm the consumer — the ban on the sweetening agent cyclamate on the grounds that it could cause cancer is a case in point . |
| 12 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 13 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 14 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 15 | Sweden used to be part of the ‘ snake ’ ( predecessor of the European exchange-rate mechanism ) , but quit in 1977 , so that it could keep control of its own economic policy . |
| 16 | The plan was criticized by industrialists , who warned that it could reduce Europe 's competitiveness in international markets , and by the governments of a number of oil-producing countries , including Saudi Arabia and Iran . |
| 17 | The plan was criticized by industrialists , who warned that it could reduce Europe 's competitiveness in international markets , and by oil producing countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran . |
| 18 | On the basis that it was to be a ‘ one-off ’ , and following conclusive proof that it could read DCA/RFT files directly off the company network , the syste was allowed . |
| 19 | The Burton Property Trust developed project is due to open in August and fears have been expressed that it could harm town trade if tenants with a current presence in Darlington moved in . |
| 20 | Fife College has been seen as one of the further education colleges most likely to break through the barrier which separates the sector from higher education , and there have been suggestions that it could become Fife 's second university , after St Andrews . |
| 21 | ‘ The danger of a hung Parliament is that it could hang Britain , ’ a senior Cabinet minister said yesterday . |
| 22 | With its high fructose corn syrup ( HFCS ) sweetener , Staley had already shown that it could develop products capable of transforming whole sectors of the food industry . |
| 23 | They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country . |
| 24 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 25 | As many of those benefits go to people who do not need them , that spending does far less than it could to relieve poverty . |
| 26 | We adapted the Versatran to handle equipment for spraying paint so it could replace people in paint shops , often extremely nasty places in which to work . |
| 27 | Hitler did n't like Jews and it could make trouble for me . |
| 28 | THE unholy tangle that is the Second Division promotion and relegation saga will be resolved today and it could mean heartbreak for three of football 's biggest names . |
| 29 | In HIV-infected patients the treatment could shut down production of the virus and prevent the onset of Aids and it could prevent infection in healthy patients . |
| 30 | The House controlled a large part of its own timetable , it had a corporate spirit and it could force information out of the government , the best example being the stream of diplomatic Blue Books in which the Foreign Office had to reveal the course of its negotiations with foreign powers almost as soon as the events had occurred . |