Example sentences of "that could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any bacterium that could tap a different source of food would obviously be very successful and eventually some did . |
| 2 | She knew this with a sickness and sadness that could manifest only as a cold feeling , a dead feeling inside her . |
| 3 | The voice that could reach with ease to the upper gallery of the Shield Theatre sounded in the Holborn drawing-room , calling attention to the silent young man who had arrived with the Professor but so far had not said a word . |
| 4 | Massively-parallel systems developer Meiko World Inc of Bristol has retained ICL Plc to manufacture the Sparc-based processor boards for its next generation parallel systems at its Kidsgrove , Staffordshire plant under a contract that could reach several million pounds a year ; the two say they plan a long-term manufacturing relationship . |
| 5 | With more efficient use of the existing electronic information resources in our Town Halls this is an approach that could bear much fruit . |
| 6 | And so , resentfully , he learned concepts that could stand him in good stead . |
| 7 | Just as it was our duty , we felt , to shower two or three times a day and keep ourselves wrapped in a permanent cloud of Charlie perfume , so , it seemed , it was the male imperative to cultivate mossy teeth and socks that could stand up on their own . |
| 8 | Look for bits of the programme that could stand on their own . |
| 9 | ‘ I am enumerating the items that could stand against you should the will be contested , ’ said Mr Aycliffe patiently . |
| 10 | Now and that cos that 's the only thing that could stand |
| 11 | Alternatively , the future may bring chemicals that could protect us from any gas , liquid or radiation , not to mention environments in which future generations may live that will separate them from any hazardous source . |
| 12 | In these hot summer months prudent Japanese girls suppress the potential faux pas of erect nipples that could spring up from a cool blast of the air-conditioner by sticking on a handy pair of ‘ Nipples ’ . |
| 13 | A much more dramatic break with the current political tradition is required if progress is to be made in building support for the policies that could spring Britain 's underclass from its current position . |
| 14 | In the article on ‘ Molecular Drive : a third force in evolution ’ ( vol 96 , p 664 ) Gail Vines claims ‘ Evolutionists , up to now , have considered only two processes that could spread mutations of genes to all individuals of a population and so create evolutionary change … . natural selection … genetic drift ’ . |
| 15 | This unexpected cohesive mode of evolution he and his colleagues , E. Coen , T. Strachan and S. Brown , have called ‘ molecular drive ’ ( Nature , vol 299 , p 111 ) — Evolutionists , up to now , have considered only two processes that could spread mutations of genes to all individuals in a population and so create evolutionary change . |
| 16 | Business Technology : Treating Aids with a trick gene Christine McGourty looks at long-term therapy that could prevent the HIV virus reproducing |
| 17 | The result , analysts say , will be a slowing of credit for Japanese companies that could prevent capital investment and block an economic recovery . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought it was the sort of injury that could prevent him from fighting again . |
| 19 | Intel Corp is said to be talking eagerly to anyone with cooling technology that could prevent its Pentiums turning personal computers into desktop microwave ovens . |
| 20 | As a result of my inexperience , am I missing the simplest attention to detail that could prevent this imbalance ? |
| 21 | Dobson , ugly and cretinous , was compensated by a sense of animal cunning that could smell out weakness in others and advantage to himself . |
| 22 | There were also birds that could sing popular songs . |
| 23 | He could n't afford anything that could blunt his instincts . |
| 24 | She also outlined another misconception that could explain the suspicion research nurses often encounter among other nurses . |
| 25 | Nor does Anna Massey express any sensuality that could explain why even a bald , bulky vagrant would want to ravish a woman who looks like the world 's oldest pixie . |
| 26 | Clinical findings of disabling cognitive and/or motor dysfunction interfering with occupation or activities of daily living , or loss of behavioural developmental milestones in a child , progressing over weeks to months , in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings . |
| 27 | Findings profound involuntary weight loss ( more than 10% of baseline body weight ) plus other chronic diarrhoea ( lasting > 1 month ) in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings ( e.g. cancer , tuberculosis , cryptosporidiosis or other specific enteritis ) . |
| 28 | If being Maori were a significant variable this might arise because of an inherent effect of being Maori or because there are other confounding variables that have not been considered that could explain the difference between Maori and non-Maori children . |
| 29 | The second half of Darwin 's Descent of Man was devoted to sexual selection , because Darwin thought that this was the only process that could explain some of humankind 's unique features such as our loss of body hair . |
| 30 | But so far — and this may be what you 're driving at — we have n't found evidence of anything that could explain her murder . ’ |