Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A STAR ballerina hit in the face by an airgun pellet has been told : Dance one more pirouette and it could blind you . |
| 2 | For Blue Circle , cement volumes tumbled by 17 p.c. in Britain last year , and yet group profits fell by ‘ only ’ 36 p.c. and it could maintain its dividends without too much strain . |
| 3 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 4 | Under the terms of the scheme the school had an absolute discretion whether to admit any boy and it could withdraw the concession at any time . |
| 5 | Any error and it could result in lorry loads of the wrong colour . |
| 6 | He was describing Denis Law but it could have been this era . |
| 7 | It was logical to conclude the young fop was the assassin but it could have been the young page or , indeed , a complete stranger . |
| 8 | At the time there were parents and children waiting to cross over the crossing and it could have been much more serious . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Shildon is in charge of this inquiry but it could become impossible for either of you to continue working here . ’ |
| 11 | It 's hard to imagine a vast country like Brazil totally stripped of forest but it could happen unless we re-double our efforts now . |
| 12 | The fact is that the ultimate choice will not matter to the departed pet but it could make all the difference to the real pain of separation from a beloved companion . |
| 13 | It could prompt a big swing to the Socialists in the second round or it could push left-wing voters to give up altogether . |
| 14 | It would be nice if you could leave the fax modem in Auto-answer mode and it could distinguish between a fax machine or another modem that was calling it , and act appropriately . |
| 15 | Cancer cost her an eye when she was a baby and it could reoccur . |
| 16 | Generally , it is thought that the cheese took its name from Dunlop village or parish but it could have been from Mrs. Barbara Dunlop ; we will never know . |
| 17 | It is an unlikely occurrence but it could happen and we would feel concerned if it did ; indeed , we would probably be unhappy with any sample where the sex ratio differed greatly from that of the whole school . |
| 18 | The House controlled a large part of its own timetable , it had a corporate spirit and it could force information out of the government , the best example being the stream of diplomatic Blue Books in which the Foreign Office had to reveal the course of its negotiations with foreign powers almost as soon as the events had occurred . |
| 19 | A base like this could not resist the authority of the host government but it could protect merchants against local hostility or the attacks of other traders . |
| 20 | A line of separate limbs down each side is clearly a very effective structure for this purpose and it could have been acquired by repeating the simple body unit to form a chain . |
| 21 | This out-sourcing could put the software technology for the defence of the country into the hands of a foreign-controlled company and it could cost another two thousand British Aerospace jobs . |
| 22 | One can not prove in the same way that senior bureaucrats do not implement effective conservation because there is no extra financial inducement and it could involve them in embarrassing political contradictions . |
| 23 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 24 | I fear it is a transfer made in desperation and it could put Ferguson under real pressure . |