Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he warned there were potential risks and pitfalls because the new working methods could come as a culture shock . |
| 2 | She was fined £1,000 and warned that further offences could lead to a ban on keeping sheep . |
| 3 | ‘ Could be that some tracks could emerge on a compilation , however , ’ says SF 's Clive Selwood . |
| 4 | This combination of premium reductions could result in a maximum saving of up to 35% . |
| 5 | In France and elsewhere there were fears that West German independence in foreign affairs could lead to a resurgence of extreme nationalism . |
| 6 | In one mouthful she ate as much as twelve English farmers could eat in a whole meal . |
| 7 | He continues : What was so surprising about Executive Stretch was that after just two days a group of 10 people from different backgrounds could gel into a team . |
| 8 | ‘ Very high increases could lead to a recession as happened in the late 1970s and early 80s due to the oil price hikes . |
| 9 | One of the hearing 's key witnesses , Dame Josephine Barnes , has estimated that — several thousand ’ British women could benefit from a favourable decision for Depo-Provera . |
| 10 | The league was charged also with responsibility for collective security , so that individual states could embark on a programme of disarmament . |
| 11 | They showed that such models could start with a big bang , even though the galaxies were no longer always moving directly away from each other , but they claimed that this was still only possible in certain exceptional models in which the galaxies were all moving in just the right way . |
| 12 | For example , if one were carrying out a survey of library users over six days and the analysis for the working week produced , let us say , 20 print-out sheets , then to ask also for sub-analyses for each of the six days could result in a further 120 sheets . |
| 13 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 14 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | Such lords could provide for a number of gentlemen in their direct service , appointing to offices ranging from bailies and sheriffs-depute , procurators-fiscal , and clerks to such minor posts as regality officers and keepers of prisons . |
| 16 | However , the use of such supplements could result in a daily intake of fluoride two to six times the recommended dose . |
| 17 | But in the twelfth century , by and large , whoever could enter the ranks of the privileged clergy could hope for a bishopric ; and the ranks of the privileged clergy were open to all who could find patronage , whether because of birth or talent or good luck . |
| 18 | Severe cold conditions could lead to a big increase in cod numbers . |
| 19 | By allowing the SiO4 units to rotate freely about their common oxygens and by making the bond-angle of the ‘ bridging oxygen ’ flexible , these chemists could conceive of a continuously connected random network that left the local order intact , but which destroyed the overall crystalline topology . |
| 20 | Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat . |
| 21 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 22 | This is especially so for rule-based syntactic processing where the use of semantic analysis to remove improbable partial parses could lead to a reduction in the processing requirement . |
| 23 | It soon became obvious to me that no study of black sportsmen could proceed without a very careful consideration of why blacks fail in other areas , the most important one being school . |
| 24 | The region was overwhelmingly German in character , and in a sense its problem would have to be resolved before Franco-German relations could return to a more normal footing . |
| 25 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 26 | The project organised by Safer Cities could lead to a ‘ Safe Transport ’ scheme . |
| 27 | Any one of the above features could result in a person being labelled schizophrenic , providing some other criteria are met , such as the symptoms having lasted for a certain length of time . |
| 28 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 29 | Australian scientists have warned that the prevalence of insect-borne diseases could increase as a result of global warming . |
| 30 | Thus the military conspirators could count on a growing area of civilian support . |