Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] it could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 2 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 3 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 4 | We reached an agreement with BOC under which it could provide the welding hardware that we would sell with our robots . |
| 5 | Ed Zschau , chief executive of IBM Corp 's AdStar subsidiary , says the company plans to become known as a consumer products company as well as the leader in commercial storage products , and would pursue all of the market opportunities in which it could offer unique products ; he says AdStar aims to become the lowest cost producer in the industry , taking advantage of its technology , scale and commitment to quality ; speaking at the product launch in San Jose , he said that AdStar would also become known , more than it is today , as a software company ; it expects to have personal computer-oriented products in the retail market before the end of the year . |
| 6 | There is no difficulty in explaining how a structure such as an eye or a feather contributes to survival and reproduction ; the difficulty is in thinking of a series of steps by which it could have arisen . |
| 7 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 8 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 9 | The 18 neighbours of an animal are the 18 different kinds of children that it can give rise to , and the 18 different kinds of parent from which it could have come , given the rules of our computer model . |
| 10 | Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back , and important colonial possessions , but , like Belgium , was formally ‘ new ’ . |
| 11 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 12 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 13 | But Ginsberg realised that it was a conditional matter , and the task of sociology as he saw it was to discern and specify the conditions under which it could continue . |
| 14 | In other words , the DTI had failed to understand fully its own legal powers with which it could have put pressure on Barlow Clowes . |
| 15 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 16 | When it met after the Conference it set up a subcommittee to draft acceptable Standing Orders with which it could approach the Labour Party National Executive . |
| 17 | There seemed no limit to what it could achieve . |
| 18 | Suppose that a company and its potential rivals in a market for a new product are in agreement that the rate at which it could drive costs down is as illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 19 | The greatest obstacle to the acceptance of the drift hypothesis was not so much the nature of this supporting evidence ( although alternative explanations were readily proffered ) but rather the failure to find a convincing mechanism by which it could occur . |
| 20 | ‘ . The transformation of the industry would undoubtedly be both costly and painful but it was the only means by which it could ensure a future for itself . |
| 21 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 22 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 23 | The degree of stability to which it could attain remained to be seen . |
| 24 | Each science in its infancy has had to establish the assumptions and procedures by which it could claim to extend our knowledge of nature . |
| 25 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 26 | First , as until at least the late 1960's the Club was in poor straits financially — mostly , but not entirely , to do with low membership , there was no way in which it could contemplate buying out the bonds either at par or in instalments ( of not less than £2 10s. 0d. per bond ) as allowed by the rules . |
| 27 | And I do n't think there is any realistic way in which it could cope with the flows of a fourteen hundred dwelling new settlement . |
| 28 | Once this trend for the relaxation of the 1970 legislation began , the EPA considered that the only way in which it could slow down or stop this erosion , short of a resurgence in the environmental movement , would be to show more flexibility in its administration of the Act , especially towards new industry . |
| 29 | His Attorney-General ( his third ! ) resigned in protest , and on 23 October the House of Representatives began to consider the impeachment of the President — he only constitutional way in which it could remove a President considered unfit for office . |
| 30 | The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership . |