Example sentences of "[conj] could [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The service , Mr. Park argued , could either consist in the grant of a sub-licence which enabled the operator to do in Vancouver what he could not otherwise lawfully do or could consist in the refraining by the taxpayer from stopping the grantee doing what he could otherwise be stopped from doing . |
| 2 | The Hadow Report of 1926 , and its successor the Spens Report of 1938 , had envisaged that not all children would want or could profit from the kind of schooling which was available in Cardiff in the 1930s or in Thame in the 1890s , and that different kinds of pupils deserved not only various curricula but also distinctive types of school . |
| 3 | It eliminates white blood cells that could react against the body 's own normal cells . |
| 4 | But he added : ‘ There must be a better way of meeting those concerns than taking action that could lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 5 | BP Nutrition , the food arm of the UK oil giant , is in talks that could lead to the Sarah Lee Corporation of Chicago acquiring its consumer food group . |
| 6 | Any political decision that could lead to the closure of either Devonport or Rossythe would also put the defence of this country at risk . |
| 7 | Two witnesses have come forward with information that could lead to the killer 's arrest . |
| 8 | British Telecom is planning more job cuts that could lead to the loss of 80,000 staff over five years , unions fear . |
| 9 | they become the high-risk seed money that could lead to the investment of private funds on a commercial basis ; and |
| 10 | DOCTORS hope to announce an experiment next month that could lead to the use of animal organs for human transplants within the next five years . |
| 11 | It would therefore be possible for a young school-leaver to begin acquiring qualifications that could lead in the end to gaining a technical degree qualification . |
| 12 | In Italy integration was viewed as a counterbalance to the possible domestic instability that could arise from the presence of a large and hostile Communist Party . |
| 13 | Johnson had great difficulty finding a robot that could cope with the laser 's accuracy . |
| 14 | Staining also appears adjacent to the midline in r5 ( Figs 1 e and 2a ) , a region that could correspond with the location of motor neuron cell bodies . |
| 15 | Adding the percentage of retrospective completions and the percentage of errors ( discrepancies ) provides an estimate of the maximum percentage of errors that could occur for the entries in paper and pencil diaries such as those used in clinical trials : 2%+15%=17% for the morning and 9%+15%=24% for the evening . |
| 16 | A situation that could occur during the lifetime of a product , system or plant that has the potential for human injury , damage to property , damage to the environment or economic loss . |
| 17 | A single thread that could tower to the silver eye of the moon — if you could convince the spider of its need to do it . |
| 18 | The trio spread out across the acres of plasteel , holding their lasguns ready — three hunters awaiting the flushing of birds that could fly through the void . |
| 19 | A feature on the noises made by muscles in action had several member of staff listening to their own thunder by covering their ears with their thumbs and tightening their hand into fists The magazine also revived all the explanation that could account for the Loch Ness monster , an overture to the silly season , though there was little evidence that there would be one this year . |
| 20 | If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison , are there other , independent variables that could account for the correlation ? |
| 21 | She questioned him , trying to find out if he had an infection that could account for the temperature . |
| 22 | Crucial to this development was that the war , by increasing the number of taxpayers and creating a fear of inflation among the equally increased number of small savers , offered important opportunities for a party that could pose as the defender of low taxes , low public expenditure , and monetary rectitude . |
| 23 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 24 | The following examples illustrate the type of situation that could call for the utmost in tact and diplomacy . |
| 25 | It was as if the Cornell students were capable of ignoring surface structure , and could refer to the passage 's deep structure as if it were complete . |
| 26 | A spokesman at the Brazilian Embassy in London said the ambassador himself was a father of five and had two grand-children and could identify with the family 's grief . |
| 27 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 28 | It was a move from a concern with the intrinsic character of the student 's experience to an interest in what the student knew and could do at the end of the course . |
| 29 | However according to one Sinn Fein member recent RUC successes have sent shock waves through the IRA and could result in the murder of informers in this part of the city . |
| 30 | It is also under the wing of the United Nations and could contribute to the reforestation of felled rainforest , so that the land is sustained . |