Example sentences of "and could [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | figure is the highest level that we have granted for any riot expenditure , and could involve a sum of between £5 million and £7 million , depending on the claims . |
| 2 | These spirits were also known as ‘ mahrs ’ , and could assume a more erotic personality . |
| 3 | He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ . |
| 4 | League leaders Bayern Munich travel to Karlsruhe today , and could open a two-point lead over second-placed Werder Bremen , who trailed by goal difference following a 4–0 defeat of Saarbrueken on Friday . |
| 5 | If applied on an institutional scale it could abolish the deficit of cadaveric transplants and could go a long way towards solving the moral problem that continues to exercise me and my colleagues . ’ |
| 6 | Defective plastic studs which easily come loose and could choke a child have been discovered on ten Spanish-made seats . |
| 7 | If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth . |
| 8 | A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune . |
| 9 | Opinions are divided as to the meaning of ‘ Thwing ’ , but most historians agree that it is derived from the Scandinavian and could mean a ‘ strip of high land ’ . |
| 10 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 11 | The ship-launched missile had a range of up to 11 km and could carry a 5kg warhead . |
| 12 | The rival factions involved were sometimes family groups whose hostility was longstanding , but there could also be a local clerical faction : archdeacons tended to have high hopes of gaining the episcopate and could mobilize a body of support . |
| 13 | Supper was becoming a fashionable word and could cover a snacky situation better . |
| 14 | As well as becoming a superb calligrapher , he was an expert conjurer , performed on musical instruments , played a variety of games and could thread a needle with the best . |
| 15 | They are already in use in Australia , America , Brazil and Tanzania , and could make a major contribution to managing insect-borne diseases and crop pests , according to Dr Janet Hemingway of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |
| 16 | The establishment now of a co-ordinated network of Regional INSET ( in-service training ) offices , or officers , with the primary function of advising and promoting self help , would be timely , in view of the stimulation to training that has been engendered by the introduction of the pre-licentiate scheme , and could make a major contribution towards combating the inefficient and inequitable distribution of training . |
| 17 | Bjornbye was immediately drafted into the party and could make a surprise appearance in the starting line-up at left back . |
| 18 | As she endeavoured to come to terms with the realities of her marriage and royal life , there were moments in those early years when Diana sensed that she actually could cope and could make a positive contribution to the royal family and the wider nation . |
| 19 | They boasted that it was the worst they 'd ever known , and could expect a million profit with confidence . |
| 20 | In spite of all the obvious agonising , has Neil ever experienced a time when he was totally happy with his sound , and could quote a recorded example of this ? |
| 21 | He had a wicked tongue when roused and could talk a blue streak . |
| 22 | Both are pessimistic about the outcome of any review and could face a maximum of 7 years in jail if found guilty at a future trial . |
| 23 | It would be a contradictory state of affairs to believe that higher education could maintain one kind of culture within itself and could underpin a quite different kind of culture within society at large : there could not be any fundamental incongruity between these two cultural functions of higher education . |
| 24 | Some of Gibson 's basses of this period come with ‘ tighten towards the player ’ heads , as on early Fender Precisions , and could cause a certain amount of confusion . |
| 25 | Little is known about the causes of the problem , though a new study of receptors on blood platelets has suggested a possible mechanism , and could provide a way of predicting those women who will suffer postnatal depression . |
| 26 | The big bony collar could protect vulnerable-parts of its body , and could provide a useful broad anchor for muscles which supported the heavy head . |
| 27 | He believes , however , that the ‘ contracts ’ should establish prisoners ' ‘ legitimate expectations ’ and could provide a platform for an application for judicial review in cases where conditions became intolerable . |
| 28 | TAKA and Mari , a pair of gibbons , both at least 31 years old , have had their 29th baby and could win a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world 's most prolific monkey parents , said a vet at a zoo in Hyogo , Japan . |
| 29 | I gazed upwards and could see a few stars twinkling in the sky , one seemed much brighter than the others . |
| 30 | He looked in the mirror and could see a gout of her smoker 's phlegm on his cheek . |