Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each broadcasting organization could henceforth pursue its programme policies without fear of a direct challenge to its sources of revenue . |
| 2 | The retreat led by theorists was of a dwindling army that felt itself to be beaten , and at best it could only remember its victories . |
| 3 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 4 | Shearson Lehman analyst David Readerman , who raised his Microsoft rating to a ‘ strong buy ’ following the court ruling , said the company could easily adapt its Windows programme if the judge ruled against it on the remaining issues . |
| 5 | There is a water-course running through the site and polluted waste could easily find its way into this stream and eventually into the River Wyre . |
| 6 | His basic case is that , with a shift towards producing more modern products , Czechoslovakia could quickly regain its place among the most advanced countries of Europe . |
| 7 | It uttered a doglike howl , then raced past Tallis , moving so fast on its hind legs , bent forward , that she could hardly follow its motion . |
| 8 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |
| 9 | The music by now would sound so fractured and sophisticated that only they , the real dedicated dancers , could still hear its rhythm . |
| 10 | When a rat became a competent maze-runner , Lashley removed part of its cerebral cortex and checked to see whether the animal could still find its way through the maze . |
| 11 | While stressing IBM good behaviour , IBM chairman John Opel in a speech in London in May 1984 told Europeans that IBM could always take its investment elsewhere . |
| 12 | This was before the building of New Bridge Road and it now seems impossible that the large convoy of vehicles could ever make its way over the narrow bridges leading into the city . |
| 13 | It is hard to see how Channel 4 Daily , for example , the morning show at present heavily subsidised by TV-am , could ever pay its way . |
| 14 | The US could also use its influence with the Salvadorean Government and army to achieve a ceasefire and eventual settlement , it was suggested . |
| 15 | The US could also use its influence with the Salvadorean Government and army to achieve a ceasefire and eventual settlement , it was suggested . |
| 16 | By diffusing gas in or out of the bladder or expelling it directly through the connecting tube , a fish could accurately control its level in the water . |
| 17 | It is believed that the UDA could now change its name in a bid to get round the law . |
| 18 | Its share of the CICS market is also expected to rise 10% which reportedly could well boost its turnover by $20m . |
| 19 | They speculated on how far it would have been necessary to travel to obtain the stone , and whether one could precisely locate its origin . |
| 20 | If the microscope were truly classical , untroubled by Heisenberg uncertainty , we could then determine its recoil on absorbing the photon and use that knowledge to circumvent the uncertainty relation for the electron itself . |
| 21 | Clocksin and Moore , who performed this experiment , found that the robot could indeed learn its way around its workspace in a fairly short time ( between a quarter and half an hour ) . |
| 22 | If practice counts for anything , Oxford could again have its name on a European Trophy . |
| 23 | A station clashed by so fast she could neither read its name or discern the pattern of its ironwork . |