Example sentences of "[noun] it could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical ; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies .
2 LOYALIST prisoners have been banned from wearing Remembrance Day poppies inside a top-security jail because of fears it could provoke republican violence , the Northern Ireland High Court heard today .
3 The Turkish parliament on Aug. 12 voted by 216 to 151 to give the government war powers if necessary , specifying that if Iraq attacked Turkish territory it could send Turkish troops into combat and also allow foreign forces to be deployed on Turkish soil .
4 The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing , obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one , or tie-in sales , no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing ( no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself ) , and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements ( suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product , and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection ) .
5 Once Dai succeeded in getting Bernard 's semi-automatic printer in full working order it could produce 5,000 metres of cloth per week .
6 Yorkshire Water has calculated that at the busiest time August Bank Holiday it could have 50,000 people using it .
7 This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients .
8 Once upon a time it could take several hours to install a network interface card .
9 The local doctors believed that when undertaken by the child 's mother it could have positive effects but fundamentalists like the magistrate insisted that any such teaching was morally wrong .
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