Example sentences of "it could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 2 | However , having spent a total of £41million on the redevelopment by then , the union would obviously seek to have as many sell-out rugby events as it could reasonably muster in a season . |
| 3 | This is further emphasised by s2(6) of the Act , which provides that in any prosecution for publishing an obscene article , " the question whether an article is obscene shall be determined without regard to any publication by another person , unless it could reasonably have been expected that the publication by the other person would follow from the publication by the person charged . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the Chinese Constitution contains all sorts of promises , too — so many that it could probably have been construed to forbid the People 's Liberation Army from shooting dead hundreds of unarmed civilians , and to prohibit the arbitrary arrest , summary trial or execution of thousands more . |
| 6 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 7 | In practice , apart from the navy , the United States had no forces it could immediately deploy in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East . |
| 8 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 9 | The admission of several neutral countries need not lead to a stifling of their differences within a monolithic defence structure ; it could instead lead to a flexible approach to defence , in which individual Member States integrate to the extent that they feel is necessary and beneficial . |
| 10 | Mr Clarke halted trials of the American-style side handled baton saying : ‘ It could fundamentally alter for the worse the style of policing in this country . |
| 11 | Instead of seventy dead , it might have cost him five hundred , a thousand , to destroy Siward 's army so that it could neither attack him nor follow him . |
| 12 | But Central Office could exert only informal pressure , since it could neither bully nor bribe its local supporters , and this is exactly what Steel-Maitland set out to do through his district agents . |
| 13 | If you want a 95% mortgage on a £100,000 house , it could easily cost you £1,500 . |
| 14 | With this sensitivity it could easily detect a shrimp from over a metre away for these crustaceans generate tiny electrical fields of up to one thousandth of a volt ( 0.2–1 millivolt ) per centimetre each time they flick their tails . |
| 15 | A deadly charm that could humiliate her because it could easily make her melt and beg and forget a lifetime of rigid adherence to propriety . |
| 16 | Although the elephant is not a predator , it could easily damage the nest , and it must somehow be persuaded to take another route . |
| 17 | But never drive along with the dog loose , as it could easily distract you momentarily , and lead to an accident . |
| 18 | It could easily stand for something else . |
| 19 | For example , one group was drawn from a London housing estate where a high proportion of tenants have been taken to court over debt , so that it could easily get a bad name among local traders . |
| 20 | At £49.95 , it 's affordable for the one-off job ( it could easily save you that in architect 's fees alone if you 're looking at an extension ) , and it does n't require a mega-PC to run it . |
| 21 | On test when it matters , ie swimming in white water , the Aqua-Pak had the advantage of being easier to swim in than many larger more bulky buoyancy aids though it was essential to have the jacket well fitting and done up properly as , like other buoyancy aids of this style , it could easily ride up the body . |
| 22 | If you were trying to train one from scratch and made an error like that it could easily mess up an entire day 's work . |
| 23 | Whenever scientific rhetoric assumed the form of a counterreligion , it could easily become a substitute religion , as it began to do in France during the revolutionary era . |
| 24 | It may overlook the fact that science could become a very rebellious offspring ; and , as an apologetic strategy , it could easily backfire if science ( as some believe it has been ) were to be devalued in public estimation through association with polluting and exploitative technologies . |
| 25 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 26 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 27 | No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly . |
| 28 | It could easily have been her and Pet having a go at one another . |
| 29 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 30 | but when they came to put into the new concrete support cradles , they found on average there was 30 feet of peat on top of the bedrock , so it could easily have been done . |