Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likes of Microsoft and Sun will soon learn to exploit object technology by developing new generations of products that could price small object players out of the market . |
| 2 | The list of the sort of aggravations that could arise may appear to be daunting . |
| 3 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 4 | The attractive Gwendraeth Valley in Carmarthenshire , for instance , faces a cluster of proposals that could devastate its countryside and culture . |
| 5 | The trio spread out across the acres of plasteel , holding their lasguns ready — three hunters awaiting the flushing of birds that could fly through the void . |
| 6 | If you are talking about more general studies or if you did a non-vocational course at college or university you should show how this demonstrates that you are capable of becoming interested in a wide range of subjects and could bring the same enthusiasm to your work . |
| 7 | They were the sort of ears that could keep plates spinning at the circus . |
| 8 | Presumably many of those who first examined this Daguerreotype were familiar with Whitehall and this row of shops and could read more with a naked eye . |
| 9 | However , I believe this is but a drop in the ocean compared to the vast number of communities that could play some form of active role , however modest . |
| 10 | Adding the percentage of retrospective completions and the percentage of errors ( discrepancies ) provides an estimate of the maximum percentage of errors that could occur for the entries in paper and pencil diaries such as those used in clinical trials : 2%+15%=17% for the morning and 9%+15%=24% for the evening . |
| 11 | In the second half when we went at them we forced plenty of corners but could make nothing of them . |
| 12 | Babbage adds : ‘ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question . ’ |
| 13 | Their constitution embodied a radical fear of the executive and an extreme division of powers that could have no conceivable medieval precedent . |
| 14 | So they went to the Kildingy Well which was s supposed to have some kind of magical properties you see and er I do n't ken if it was a a holy well or exactly but it certainly was reputed to have some kind of properties that could cure supposed to cure any disease save the black death . |
| 15 | The first two would be examples of mismatches that could have cultural causes similar to the ones explained above . |
| 16 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |
| 17 | Comment in particular on the sort of problems that could arise in translation from differences in the way the notion in question is expressed in the two languages . |
| 18 | Dr Christine Henderson , the first such volunteer , had recently returned from Zimbabwe and described her experiences to the IC , providing graphic examples of the sort of problems that could encountered . |
| 19 | It is the lower after-tax interest rate that measures the social opportunity cost of resources that could have been devoted to private consumption . |
| 20 | There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did . |
| 21 | There are also a lot of things that could go wrong which could prolong your stay . |
| 22 | Reportedly , the list of things that could pop fills two pages single-spaced , a melange of hardware , software , services and ISV testimonials . |
| 23 | The number of mills that could work effectively on the same stream was limited , which led to smaller streams being used by means of building dams to create mill-ponds . |
| 24 | It is not hard to find suitable populations of bodies that could give rise to the observed range of crater sizes today — more on this in section 6.4 and in Chapter 8 . |
| 25 | As well as becoming a superb calligrapher , he was an expert conjurer , performed on musical instruments , played a variety of games and could thread a needle with the best . |
| 26 | If it is mentioned at all to medical students it is in a derogatory fashion , being described as a method of treating patients with incredibly dilute or immeasurable quantities of materials that could have no possible effect on the body . |
| 27 | There 's a whole family of equations that could have been differentiated to give that we do n't know what C is . |
| 28 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 29 | The regularities he observed in this process suggest that the species behaves according to rules that limit the possible variety of behaviours that could occur as they meet one another . |
| 30 | In other words , negative cell lines may lack some genes capable of transforming NIH/3T3 cells or contain a set of genes that could transfer 3T3 cells , but at an efficiency of focus induction too low for detection . |