Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tempting to get a large capacity sack if you know you 'll have a lot to carry , but bear in mind that it could tempt you to carry too much ! |
| 2 | I thought that it was very polite that we should go there in the evening and assess for ourselves exactly the harm th the possible harm that it could do to their gardens at the back and and that 's why we did that . |
| 3 | In 1940 the British Decca Company was asked by RAF Coastal Command if it could record frequencies up to 14000Hz , almost the limit of human hearing . |
| 4 | A STAR ballerina hit in the face by an airgun pellet has been told : Dance one more pirouette and it could blind you . |
| 5 | I fully understood the principles which led the party to believe it could gain more of the ethnic minority vote if it could prove that a barrister of Afro-Caribbean extraction could become a Conservative MP . |
| 6 | For Blue Circle , cement volumes tumbled by 17 p.c. in Britain last year , and yet group profits fell by ‘ only ’ 36 p.c. and it could maintain its dividends without too much strain . |
| 7 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 8 | For example , in the 1980s the UK appears to have hosted parts of an international car industry because it could provide a relatively cheap , disciplined and flexible labour force and , as a resuIt , the parts of the production process it could host were similar to those found in some Third World countries . |
| 9 | If the immediate military objectives were to seize Noriega and paralyse potential opposition before it could organise , both seem to have failed . |
| 10 | ‘ The devil ! ’ he uttered , and as her hands left its edge he let her go and seized the tray before it could fall . |
| 11 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 12 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |
| 13 | In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur . |
| 14 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 15 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 16 | But I think the club has spent more money than it could afford . |
| 17 | It placed an economic dressing over the political goals in the hope that it could accommodate as many interests and groups as possible . |
| 18 | The party leadership of Mr Milos Jakes was still clinging to the hope that it could separate ‘ the workers ’ from ‘ the intellectuals ’ , he said . |
| 19 | The party leadership of Mr Milos Jakes was still clinging to the hope that it could separate ‘ the workers ’ from ‘ the intellectuals ’ , he said . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union , for its part , tried to build relationships within the region in the hope that it could displace the Western powers on the tide of Arab nationalism . |
| 21 | OFFICIALS of an apparently doomed workingmen 's club have been given fresh hope that it could survive . |
| 22 | It is common ground that in the year starting September 1991 the school had more applicants for admission than it could accommodate without prejudicing the provision of efficient education . |
| 23 | the vitamins , and erm it was a criminologist that it could help you mentally . |
| 24 | The next question under the Convention was to determine what kind of legal regime would be acceptable under Article 8(2) , assuming of course that it could meet the requirement of being ‘ in accordance with law ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |
| 27 | It is an even wilder dream to imagine that it would get such a majority that it could escape from being held to ransom by the 25 Members who signed the amendment . |
| 28 | Delays would increase or decrease , according to whether the court was presented with more or less work than it could handle . |
| 29 | Would we say that Uruguay was not neutral unless the help that it could have and did not give Ethiopia was equal to the help that it could have and did not give Somalia ? |
| 30 | Would we say that Uruguay was not neutral unless the help that it could have and did not give Ethiopia was equal to the help that it could have and did not give Somalia ? |