Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , those who respect the ballot box but who can not agree on any form of self-government could learn from the Israeli-Palestinian settlement . |
| 2 | He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind . |
| 3 | Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis . |
| 4 | Sense-based definitions of words could contribute to the subsequent overlap process by providing more concise , pertinent definitions and reducing the chances of spurious overlaps due to inappropriate but co-incident word senses . |
| 5 | One moment she was running and dodging through the striations of ice and carmine and sloe , with the fear that the walls of Spiderglass could see through the ancient cliffs of Mars to where she finally crouched , exhausted . |
| 6 | Minton , however , saw that a disparity between the outline drawing and the armature created by the blocks of colour could add to the liveliness of the image . |
| 7 | On the surface , neither of these definitions of pornography could apply to the fabliaux if the fabliaux really are , as Bédier 's definition would suggest , simply meant to be laughed at . |
| 8 | The implications of these findings are doubly serious because it is equally likely that the spindle-disrupting action of alcohol could occur during the first meiotic division . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , they were leisured days , ’ said Mark a little uncomfortably , feeling that he should say that things were ‘ better ’ now when great coachloads of people could whirl round the Italian lakes in an eight-day tour . |
| 10 | At the extreme , accidental loss of life could result in the charge of manslaughter . |
| 11 | That was the best , at least I understand that was the best the Secretary of State could do at the time . |
| 12 | APROJECTED surge in strikes at the Department of Employment could lead to the Employment Secretary 's own backyard becoming the testing ground for his Employment Bill . |
| 13 | Well before a bill to tackle the uneven distribution of land could go before the Cortes , Socialist ministers acted to alter the balance of power in rural Spain . |
| 14 | My concern is that increased external influence with accompanying loss of autonomy could lead to the demise of all that has been gained . |
| 15 | But the company says hundreds of jobs could depend on the project . |
| 16 | The chairman of an authority 's education committee could find himself chairing a board of management where serious conflict of interest could arise in the future . |
| 17 | Darlington College of Technology could benefit from the extra investment . |
| 18 | Lastly , under section 14(4) , the Secretary of State for Transport could dispense with the nationality condition in the case of an individual in view of the length of time he had resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | If instead a graph rather like B in Figure 8.1 applies then the prospects of a shared lhb population are enhanced , because a graph like B could correspond to the growing post-formation ‘ transparency ’ of the Solar System to a population of bodies in highly eccentric orbits traversing the whole terrestrial region and originating largely from beyond this region . |
| 20 | If however you can identify its strengths in your own particular situation then an aid like video could add to the effectiveness of both . |
| 21 | The Trades Unions themselves were not necessarily pleased with ‘ co-determination ’ since the policy tended to reduce the Union 's role and make workers less militant , but co-determination showed that all classes in Germany could share in the benefits of the ‘ social market ’ , helped create good industrial relations and reduced the danger of deep class-based divisions between the CDU and SPD . |
| 22 | The commercial use of our facilities for filming/photography etc. in future could come under the remit of the Business Development Director , in liaison with Public Services . |
| 23 | But men in Scotland could look to the monarchy as the focal point and representative of their aspirations , not as the frustrator of them . |
| 24 | When the Forum for Educational Research in Scotland was inaugurated in 1986 , one of the aims was to provide a way in which teachers and others working in education could contribute to the identification of priorities for educational research . |
| 25 | However , an ex gratia payment to an older man who has no full-time employment in prospect could fall on the other side of the line . |
| 26 | Secondly , high gastrin concentrations may induce increased parietal cell mass and acid secretion , which in turn could contribute to the pathogenesis of duodenal ulceration . |
| 27 | It now appears that Bevin was beginning to doubt if the anti-communist regime in Greece could prevail in the civil war with the communists . |
| 28 | The £650,000 signing from Leeds could step into the first team if midfielder Steve Hodge fails to recover from the hamstring injury he suffered while training with England last weekend . |
| 29 | Recommending how such provision could be made within the districts , Glancy ( as the report was known after the psychiatrist leading the group ) concluded that admissions to Friern could cease after the date when the proposed new services were in place . |
| 30 | When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery . |