Example sentences of "which could [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freezing temperatures were forecast in the area last night which could devastate crops . |
| 2 | More selfish economic motives were also involved , given the British wish to see limitations imposed on Japanese economic development , which could form part of a treaty . |
| 3 | An example of a problem which could form part of an assignment is attached as Appendix 2 . |
| 4 | There may be a geological fault at the site which could carry water to the surface even more quickly . |
| 5 | The conference was also told about an invention which could curb kidnapping and the illicit sale of Third World babies for adoption . |
| 6 | Only one small criticism and that is it lacks an index and page numbers which could make reference difficult . |
| 7 | PC Tools 8 is crammed with quality features , some of which could make MS-DOS go green with envy |
| 8 | Lurgan are a little concerned about their lack of bowling depth , which could make things tough in the knock-out tournaments . |
| 9 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 10 | The design staff and manual workers at Lucas jointly felt that there was something seriously wrong about forms of technology which could make product systems as complex as Concorde while in the same society old people were dying of hypothermia . |
| 11 | Chinese officials expressed anger at his reform package and , according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 5 , threatened retaliation which could make Hong Kong virtually ungovernable in the five remaining years of British rule . |
| 12 | Such authority could not be shared with , nor alienated to anyone ; the notion was already fully developed under Philip the Fair by 1294 : ‘ the king of France is subject to no one ’ , wrote Guillaume de Nogaret , expressing the doctrine which could make vassals subjects and was absolute . |
| 13 | She was already regretting her hasty words , which could make Doreen look upon her as a rival , when of course such a thought was ridiculous . |
| 14 | ‘ Two years ago , we conducted a survey with year ten students into the likely routes of the proposed M12 motorway which could link Chelmsford to the M12 , ’ said Mr Faulds . |
| 15 | Employees and employers were to decide their own bargaining mechanisms in the form of individual or collective contracts , which could prohibit strikes and lockouts , and would be enforceable in the courts . |
| 16 | Existing EC regulations in effect since August 1989 banned British exports to other EC states of live cattle born before July 1988 ( the date when the UK prohibited the incorporation into cattle feed of sheep remains which could contain scrapie ) and the European Commission on Jan. 23 , 1990 , extended the ban ( with effect from March 1 ) to all cattle over six months old . |
| 17 | However , it looks likely that Liverpool will start the new campaign with a new central defender on their staff , which could prompt Sheffield Wednesday to renew their interest in Mark Wright . |
| 18 | These changes in social identity set the parameters of potential riots , but the actual incidence and seriousness of rioting often depended on the actions of individual officials and the presence of random catalysts which could prompt disturbances . |
| 19 | Able to call upon the financial and military resources of his whole empire , the new Duke was a political bulldozer possessed of a weight which could flatten opponents and their castles . |
| 20 | When I became a freelance writer in 1989 , I finally found a career which could accommodate wanderlust . |
| 21 | There were seventeen precepting bodies operating in the first year of the new system and a larger number of ad hoc bodies which could levy funds . |
| 22 | In addition , studies in children and in adults with acute diarrhoea have reported a shift to comparatively more aerobic faecal flora , which could influence SCFA growth in the colon . |
| 23 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 24 | As abolitionist ambitions widened in geographical scope the ability of reformers to effect them declined in respect both to an informed public opinion able to be mobilised and on finding policies which could bring results through the use of practical methods . |
| 25 | The growth of the popular press , which could bring news of the latest entertainment to the breakfast tables of the nation , clearly has played a crucial role in defining sport as part of a commercialized mass culture . |
| 26 | PLANS for a water bottling plant which could bring jobs to the Llangernyw area of Clwyd are likely to go ahead . |
| 27 | Third , we organise publicity which could bring information about EIG to a well targeted readership . |
| 28 | Third , we organise publicity which could bring information about ETA to a well targeted readership . |
| 29 | It also means continuing impartiality and helps to avoid situations which could lead outsiders to question the auditor 's objectivity . |
| 30 | Here was the shrine to the holy art of Surgery , which could transform men into demi-machines — or into paragons of transhumanity . |