Example sentences of "could [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst accepting that this is an oversimplification of a process that includes a sophisticated method of calculating relative costs ( ie the weighted factors ) , it nonetheless indicated how the further education process could be improved , assuming that Colleges could enhance their income level once the majority of constraints on local operations were removed . |
| 2 | Worker bees are three times more closely related to their full sisters than to their half sisters , so workers could enhance their fitness by raising a full sister as the new queen when the colony swarms . |
| 3 | But now , the men on board ship above him were screaming , and with three holes fired on each side of the vessel , he gave the signal to bear away as swiftly as they could ply their paddles . |
| 4 | It saddens me to think that as the elitists worry about the ‘ wrong ’ people getting into their clubs , and so tighten up their door policies , the indie kids , the hooligans , the ‘ lilac clad youths ’ are all denied the chance to hear the music that could damage their lives . |
| 5 | Thus , whilst women who smoke may know that smoking could damage their health , there is no evidence that they experienced smoking as having any immediate impact on their self-perceived strength and fitness . |
| 6 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 7 | Medical advice is that men who drink more than 21 units a week and women who drink more than 14 units could damage their health . |
| 8 | The things they could learn could damage their nature in its essence . |
| 9 | Yet there are strong financial and commercial arguments why , ignoring the hype , any management should take a cool , business-like approach to assessing and where possible minimising the risks that could damage their operations in terms of liability claims , disruption of output or direct financial loss . |
| 10 | Hundreds of children are being forced to stay at home because its feared high winds could damage their school buildings . |
| 11 | They claimed the bumps could damage their vehicles . |
| 12 | Marketing their clubs as exclusive establishments with a championship-standard course and a five star hotel-standard clubhouse , the money men felt they could pitch their joining fee at £10,000 or £25,000 and even charge £1,000 annual dues on top . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that seasonal migrations could explain their presence , but this hypothesis is untenable . |
| 14 | Millimetres in size , perhaps interstitial in sediments , their inability to fossilize or leave obvious traces could explain their absence from Proterozoic rocks . |
| 15 | If the doctrine was broken and officials could explain their views freely in public , then ministers would have the much more formidable task of making their case against men who were seized of the key counterpoints and who knew that their arguments were accepted by many in the ministry . |
| 16 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 17 | The decision is made harder by the knowledge that almost all terminally ill patients are receiving medication and may be suffering pain and distress , all of which could affect their mental competence , quite apart from some doctors ' reluctance to ‘ give up . ’ |
| 18 | Companies with a problem should act promptly and with legal advice , because delay could affect their legal rights . |
| 19 | The opening up of BBC and ITV to independent producers and the ending of closed shops is already undermining the power of those who work within broadcasting : this could affect their ability to influence content , and also the training and employment practices of the broadcasting institutions . |
| 20 | ABOVE Ventilation is vital for dogs travelling in cars , but do make sure that they are not exposed to a powerful draught which could affect their eyes . |
| 21 | Has he asked them how this initiative could affect their livelihood . |
| 22 | However the European Commission and most E C governments refute this and contend that legislation is needed to ensure that workers are not kept in the dark about decisions taken elsewhere in the community that could affect their livelihoods . |
| 23 | Serious naturalists could sprinkle their descriptions of the internal organization of new species with references to the skill of the Creator who had designed such complex living structures . |
| 24 | The overseers of the poor could board out orphans , and then apprentice them until they could earn their own living . |
| 25 | It was the premium put upon child labour within the domestic family economy of textile manufacture which provides the context for Defoe 's observations of around 1720 on Norfolk that " the very children after four or five years of age , could earn their own bread " , while at Taunton " there was not a child in the town , or in the villages round it , of above five years old , but , if it was not neglected by its parents , and untaught , could earn its own bread " . |
| 26 | The historic site of Athelstaneford was developed as an estate village by Sir David Kinloch , leasing out smallholdings on which his tenants could build their own harled ( rough-cast ) and pantiled cottages ; and here , too , many of them wove cloth . |
| 27 | As is still the case , students at some universities in the early 1970s could build their own pattern of course units in ways which tended to displace the historical chronology of literature associated with " English Language and Literature " . |
| 28 | Far from it , personal publicity could hinder their work and they were engaged in serious business . |
| 29 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 30 | With the fans now streaming through the turnstiles , many of them being stopped and searched before going any further , there 's a final briefing for the man who could influence their mood , referee Paul Harrison . |