Example sentences of "[coord] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could mean that no stimulus is present or it could mean that it is in the wrong position . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Or it could mean cutting Russian exports , which would leave the Cubans short of all sorts of things they need . |
| 4 | You could crack your skull on that intractable stone , or it could scoop out spoonfuls of flesh . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Or it could reflect an increasingly mobile population . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Animal passion could be refined to become part of the higher stages of evolution , or it could deteriorate into moral evil : |
| 13 | Or it could have been brought in and substituted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Or it could have refused to recognise Bosnia , stayed on the territory of the newly independent state and fought . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It could have-been yesterday or it could have been the day before . ’ |
| 19 | Or it could have been a trick of the light . |
| 20 | Salinity on the same density surface in the Iceland Basin is fresher , between 34.89–34.90 , so it could be older than that in the Rockall Trough , that is before 1970 , or it could have originated more recently , when salinity increased between 1981 and 1985 . |
| 21 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Or it could have been Maggie Parkin — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Or it could have been David Parkin . ’ |
| 25 | A bird pecking at food grains could have known without learning what food looks like , or it could have learnt it . |
| 26 | Any core could have accreted first , thus introducing some inhomogeneous ( heterogeneous ) accretion , or it could have later separated . |
| 27 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 28 | Alternatively it might have been a shop purveying cooked food , or it could have provided eating facilities for travellers along the road . |
| 29 | ‘ Hello , I 'm trying to clarify a rather confused report we 've picked up — I think from the local police — about an incident at the hospital last night , or it could have been early this morning . |
| 30 | The donor could have been ‘ P. ’ or it could have been the two last-mentioned ladies or ‘ P. ’ could be the first-name initial of Madame Vidal . |