Example sentences of "[Wh det] could [vb infin] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance groups on the Continent frequently produced schemes for a European structure which could prevent another war and some were ready to create a political federation . |
| 2 | Will the right Hon. Gentleman exempt Wales from the opting-out schemes which could make those plans meaningless ? |
| 3 | He possessed a dominating grace which could make any adversary subject to his will . |
| 4 | The weaker way is to say simply that although there is a radical and obvious difference between the two hypotheses , it is not one which could make any difference to you , and so that you can be exempted from paying any attention to it . |
| 5 | And it was a problem finding a ledger system which could meet this need as well as Excel , as Mr Nabakov explains : ‘ Typically , many of the accounting systems are unable to handle this , and only offer 12 or 13 reporting periods . |
| 6 | I thank you Chair , I mean , clearly I have to ask for a little bit of license on this one , in that I have to comment on things outside of my own district , erm but you will not be surprised to hear , given my evidence earlier that the City Council 's view is quite clearly that there is sufficient land with , on the edge of York , the main urban area , which could accommodate this type of level of development and obviate the need for a new settlement in the structure plan period , I accept , however , of course that that is dependant upon the definition of the inner boundary of the greenbelt , if the City Council 's view on that is er acceptable then Inspector , I believe there will be sufficient sites to obviate the the need for a new settlement , clearly if the Inspector takes a tighter view on the greenbelt , then there will be little land opportunity within the main urban area for this . |
| 7 | She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees . |
| 8 | A factor which could facilitate this process is the selection of chairmen and members in sympathy with the government 's aims for the NHS , or at least willing to accept that its views are paramount . |
| 9 | We mean to work out ways of using new course structures , perhaps with part-time study , new ways of teaching and an innovative approach to university admission which could enable more people from Birmingham and the West Midlands to benefit from their local university . |
| 10 | However the requirement for confidentiality in an exercise oriented in part to accountability , mitigated against the possibility of a whole-school evaluation which could involve all staff . |
| 11 | One of the possible catching methods which could bear most fruit was , he added , long-lining , once universal along the Scottish coasts and mostly abandoned . |
| 12 | Mr Hargreaves , Mr Crompton and Sir Richard Arkwright made hand-operated machines which could spin many threads at the same time . |
| 13 | Last year a team at the University of Pittsburgh unveiled a medical artificial intelligence project called Internist , which could beat most doctors at diagnosing internal diseases . |
| 14 | The Duchess of Kent today opened a centre in Oxford which could ease these difficulties . |
| 15 | 2 As they have pondered on the growth of state intervention ( which they largely regard as undesirable ) so they have come to bemoan the absence of legal limitations on parliamentary sovereignty and competence which could hold that intervention in check . |
| 16 | Bush is so certain that he 's lost The Big Three he has stopped campaigning there , concentrating on a dozen battleground states which could go either way . |
| 17 | Managing director Bill Fotherby will use this week 's European Cup trip to Stuttgart to put the finishing touches to negotiations which could smash all records . |
| 18 | Such plans , which could put some software in maintenance mode and some in the morgue , do n't appear to have affected DEC 's flagship database Rdb which is reportedly being rewritten in C for OSF/1 and may also get ported to Windows NT . |
| 19 | The clippings are being hailed as the unlikely source for a new drug which could save many women 's lives . |
| 20 | The idea dates from the 1950s , when it looked as if there would be plutonium left over from the fast-breeder reactors that were being planned — reactors which could produce more plutonium than they consumed . |
| 21 | The second Bill had passed through the House of Commons only to be thrown out by the House of Lords which could reject all legislation except money bills . |
| 22 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 23 | However , in December 1989 , the Irish Supreme Court , following an appeal from SPUC , granted an injunction against USI , prohibiting them from distributing information until the European Court makes its decision , which could take several years . |
| 24 | Councillors are hoping for a settlement without the need for court action but are prepared for a legal battle which could take several years during which time both sides could run up massive costs running into many tens of thousands . |
| 25 | This will be routinely tested at your antenatal visits for pregnancy diabetes and the presence of proteins which could indicate that pre-eclampsia is developing . |
| 26 | 3.9 further undertakes to report to promptly all instances of activities of which is aware by third parties in the Territory and elsewhere which could have any effect on the validity of 's Trade Marks including : |