Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any political decision that could lead to the closure of either Devonport or Rossythe would also put the defence of this country at risk . |
| 2 | The tanker had earlier been involved in a collision in Spain , but the refinery manager , Reg Clay , said there was no underwater damage that could have contributed to the incident . |
| 3 | Ayodhya , a placid centre of worship on the Ghaghara river in eastern Uttar Pradesh , has become the focus of a religious and political wrangle that could influence India 's general election this year . |
| 4 | In early development there are styles of thinking and of social interaction that could constrain the design and management of computer-based resources . |
| 5 | The money men who keep Formula One afloat want to stave off commercial backlashes that could cost them millions of pounds and hard-earned goodwill . |
| 6 | She studied his profile in the dim light , his firm jaw and sensitive mouth , his brown eyes that could freeze in anger and burn with emotion , those incredible eyelashes ; in that moment she knew what love was , knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 7 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 8 | The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist . |
| 9 | It 's an exciting blend that could end the club 's 21-year wait for a major trophy this season . |
| 10 | A public inquiry that could cost the London Regeneration consortium and Camden Council up to £4 million each . |
| 11 | As the memory of the clearances lingers in Scotland , I suggest that the Duke of Sutherland is perhaps not the most popular name that could have been chosen . |
| 12 | Peter had grown afraid of emotion ; he considered it messy stuff that could lead one into a fatal labyrinth of self-forgetfulness . |
| 13 | There is not the amount of direct questioning that could give an interview the air of a lawyer/witness relationship . |
| 14 | These sudden developments in a period of five weeks when Pons and Jones had been having discussions , culminating in the above public claim that could have influenced patent priorities , fuelled the suspicion in the University of Utah camp that they had been upstaged . |
| 15 | On March 21st Brazil 's economics ministry stopped issuing permission to export the country 's coffee , causing uproar at home , turmoil in the international coffee market and an insider-trading scandal that could prove embarrassing for the government of President Fernando Collor de Mello . |
| 16 | If you would like a tiled bathroom or kitchen floor , but have been put off by having to solve the problem of tiling over a wooden floor that could flex and crack , and so shift the grouting and loosen or even split your new ceramic floor tiles , then the answer could be the new Schlüter DITRA matting , available from stockists of Homeslux Products . |
| 17 | The authority proposed a public hearing that could have led to the plant 's closure . |
| 18 | CPRW believes there is now a chance to cut through this confusion to create a universal scheme that could provide stability and renewed confidence to the hard-pressed Welsh farming community . |
| 19 | Looking back I can see that I was somewhat raw material that could benefit from such provision . |
| 20 | An examination of the engine-room turned up no signs of protrusions , angle-beams or sharp metallic corners that could have caused the injury . |
| 21 | But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all . |
| 22 | No actual objects that could prove guilt . |
| 23 | Well we discovered that there were some compounds in interstellar space that we were really rather more complicated than had previously been thought possible , and these molecules had infeasible prebiotic species , in that there were very simple reactions that could take place that would allow them to form amino acids and other rather intriguing biological molecules . |
| 24 | Welcome back : In a few minutes , the Roman coins that could turn out to be one of the most precious finds in history . |
| 25 | Although the output reductions are a worry in themselves , they do at least suggest that the industry is not about to start laying down a large supply of surplus whisky that could upset prices in the future . |
| 26 | There 's the United States , there 's Europe , Western Europe , plus central Europe now , there 's Japan and there will be the Ex-Soviet Union in some form , er those arrangements will be complicated , but they will be less ca cataclysmic as it were , the danger will no longer be of Armageddon , there 'll be very serious , could be very serious conflicts that could arise . |
| 27 | Such a unit of goodness has been defined as the result of the slightest favourable evolutionary change that could occur . |
| 28 | Speywood has a world lead in developing a blood-clotting protein that could change the lives of thousands of haemophiliacs . |
| 29 | Although the agents of global capitalism are firmly in control and the TNCs are clearly the dominant institutional force , there are , as we approach the millennium , two counter movements that could represent real threats to the global capitalist system . |
| 30 | The result , analysts say , will be a slowing of credit for Japanese companies that could prevent capital investment and block an economic recovery . |