Example sentences of "which it could [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 2 | The degree of stability to which it could attain remained to be seen . |
| 3 | First , as until at least the late 1960's the Club was in poor straits financially — mostly , but not entirely , to do with low membership , there was no way in which it could contemplate buying out the bonds either at par or in instalments ( of not less than £2 10s. 0d. per bond ) as allowed by the rules . |
| 4 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 5 | Each science in its infancy has had to establish the assumptions and procedures by which it could claim to extend our knowledge of nature . |
| 6 | The facts that might have prompted CSM to take a more serious view of Opren at its November 1981 meeting are : 1 its own unprecedented number of adverse reaction reports ; which by 1 November 1981 included over 20 deaths which reporting doctors suspected to be due to an Opren reaction ; 2 The reports of the Paris symposium , which it could have attended ; and 3 Dista 's suggestions for a change in the dosage recommendations . |
| 7 | There is no difficulty in explaining how a structure such as an eye or a feather contributes to survival and reproduction ; the difficulty is in thinking of a series of steps by which it could have arisen . |
| 8 | The 18 neighbours of an animal are the 18 different kinds of children that it can give rise to , and the 18 different kinds of parent from which it could have come , given the rules of our computer model . |
| 9 | In other words , the DTI had failed to understand fully its own legal powers with which it could have put pressure on Barlow Clowes . |
| 10 | But the newspaper was saddled with the legal costs of the trial , which it could have avoided by " paying in " the lowest denomination coin of the realm before the trial began . |