Example sentences of "[noun pl] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alameda 's trump card is the job losses it could suffer and , beyond it , the cumulative loss of defence jobs in California . |
| 2 | It had now cast its net more widely over the British universities for the most brilliant mathematicians , physicists and chess-players it could find ; and some from other disciplines and of diverse talents had been trawled . |
| 3 | But if you start talking about taking some of the cash from the fund , you 've got to tell the clients it could affect the cover that they 've got , because it is n't a savings policy . |
| 4 | In the wet months it could turn into a quagmire . |
| 5 | That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds . |
| 6 | As the date itself might suggest , it was amongst the worst directions it could have gone . |
| 7 | It seems likely , however , that the low prevalence among children is largely a consequence of inability to ascertain pre-onset cases , while among parents it could stem from the effect of Crohn 's disease on marital relationships with reduced fertility , either through complications of the disease in women or reversible azoospermia during sulphasalazine treatment in men . |
| 8 | For the person with special needs it could provide clarity of presentation . |
| 9 | He knew no English and took no interest in what he must have regarded as a far flung outpost of his Angevin Empire — except for the revenues it could bring . |
| 10 | At White Hart Lane , the season began with all the disappointments it could take . |
| 11 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 12 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 13 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 14 | The CEGB was forced to use court procedures to make any headway and began the lengthy process of obtaining injunctions against named individuals it could identify . |
| 15 | West Germany 's contingent in the European Army was restricted in size and in the types of weapons it could use , and the guarantees against German misbehaviour were so ornate that the EDC treaty had more than 150 articles . |
| 16 | And for the toll bridge owners it could prove an expensive gamble . |
| 17 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 18 | Oxfam is being urged to call off a charity pop concert because of fears it could attract thousands of travellers back to Castlemorton.Tickets are already on sale for the event although it has n't yet been granted a licence.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 19 | A tourist video has been withdrawn from sale after fears it could threaten the safety of children . |
| 20 | LOYALIST prisoners have been banned from wearing Remembrance Day poppies inside a top-security jail because of fears it could provoke republican violence , the Northern Ireland High Court heard today . |
| 21 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Volmac Software Groep NV , 58%-owned by Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , which reported a 37.8% decline in 1992 net profits , said that in view of uncertain market conditions it could make no forecast for 1993 ; the net profit was depressed by extraordinary charges from the integration of Volmac and Cap Gemini 's Benelux operations ; the 7.4% fall in turnover exceeded the 6.1% decline in the number of employees ; the results were still better than expected and the shares jumped 19% on the Amsterdam stock exchange . |
| 22 | The only new techniques it could offer would be illegal ones . |
| 23 | The ship refused to do this , knowing it would be destroyed , and immobilised itself , using what techniques it could to warn the travellers . |
| 24 | If the government ever agreed to return to its old uncommercial ways , there are , in theory , three ways it could do so . |
| 25 | The book is complementary to Durant and Fabb 's Literary Studies in Action , published by Routledge in the Interface series in 1990 , and in many ways it could serve as a useful introduction to that volume . |
| 26 | This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend . |
| 27 | Because of the loans it could provide , its demands for prohibition of enclosure , extensive pastures , and rights of way were backed by the crown . |
| 28 | QUANTUM physicists are trying to calculate the probability that a particle goes from A to B. This probability is the sum of the probabilities of each of the possible routes it could take . |
| 29 | As I have indicated on page 48 , there are a lot of other things an agency can or might do for you , and lots of departments it could have to do it . |
| 30 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |