Example sentences of "[conj] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the EDC Mendès-France at first followed the route of his predecessors , seeking to persuade Britain to reconsider its refusal to join the EDC , and arguing with his partners for a dilution of the supranational element in the proposed structure , especially where it could affect the French military contribution . |
| 2 | She saw at once what was happening to her and to Rose , and where it could lead them both . |
| 3 | And then the evil was meant to flow into his own body , where it could do no harm because of the presence of God . |
| 4 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 5 | The upstairs lighting circuit is laid out on the floor of the loft , taking care not to put it under any loft insulation ( where it could overheat ) , and not to put junction boxes where they could be damaged by careless feet . |
| 6 | Then it was gone , on its journey of several weeks through normal planetary space to that zone on the rim of the system far from the worlds and moons where it could dive into the warp . |
| 7 | Ensure that no masonry falls down into the cavity , where it could interfere with the wall ties . |
| 8 | No sign and he could n't puzzle out where it could have gone . |
| 9 | In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects . |
| 10 | As foil conducts electricity , it 's important that this paper is never hung behind a light switch or power socket , or anywhere where it could come in contact with electricity . |
| 11 | And its ambitions spread much wider still — into realms where it could come a cropper |
| 12 | Although there were some routine matters , such as the issue of legal writs , where it could act on its own initiative , for any matter of permanent importance it needed a warrant for its action from the Privy Seal or the Signet : usually only the former would be sufficient . |
| 13 | It could mean that no stimulus is present or it could mean that it is in the wrong position . |
| 14 | Or it could mean , I am in love and will present this love in such a way as to win advantage ( the next lines make clear Astrophil 's wish to obtain Stella 's ‘ grace ’ ( both spiritual blessing and sexual favours ) . |
| 15 | Or it could mean cutting Russian exports , which would leave the Cubans short of all sorts of things they need . |
| 16 | You could crack your skull on that intractable stone , or it could scoop out spoonfuls of flesh . |
| 17 | It can carry voice calls and transfer data or graphics on the same call , or it could carry a videophone call with a ‘ reasonable ’ quality picture . |
| 18 | In the wake of the MacCabe affair in 1981 , an editorial in the Times Higher Education Supplement said that a fissiparous discipline such as English had a number of hard choices in front of it : it could become even more pluralistic and diffuse , with accompanying pedagogic problems ; it could repressively impose one favoured approach ; or it could split . |
| 19 | Or it could reflect an increasingly mobile population . |
| 20 | As my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton said that the work should ideally enable prisoners to earn a remission on part of their sentence , or it could earn money to pay compensation to victims . |
| 21 | This could involve use of the local environment , making use of a relevant local site or sites in the locality , or it could involve a visit to a major historic site , building or museum which offers an example of the best of its kind . |
| 22 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 23 | Er , to start off with they do the full spiritual exercise of Ignatius Loyal all takes thirty days in silent retreat with a with an individual er under individual guidance with a , with a , a director or it could take anything from nine months to eighteen months to do in er day da da da living in open sort of retreat . |
| 24 | Animal passion could be refined to become part of the higher stages of evolution , or it could deteriorate into moral evil : |
| 25 | Or it could have been brought in and substituted . |
| 26 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 27 | Or it could have refused to recognise Bosnia , stayed on the territory of the newly independent state and fought . |
| 28 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 29 | The fungal growth may have been due to the water quality being affected by the chemicals , or it could have set in where damage had occurred as a result of the flicking . |
| 30 | It could have-been yesterday or it could have been the day before . ’ |