Example sentences of "[conj] could [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of this appeal , it is not necessary to take account of the implications which arise or could arise as a result of the possession order being set aside . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It eliminates white blood cells that could react against the body 's own normal cells . |
| 5 | As in any software , there are bits here and there that could do with a polish , but , overall , Mainlan GTI for Windows does everything you 're likely to want in a small network environment . |
| 6 | Although President Bush has been opposed to any such deal , Miami lawyers acting for Gen Noriega and leading US senators have been exploring the possibility of an agreement that could lead to a ceasefire and freedom for the American hostages . |
| 7 | Rover is negotiating a deal that could lead to a factory being built in Siberia . |
| 8 | Technically , the offence merited a written warning that could lead to a sacking . |
| 9 | Thyssen , Krupp and Saarstahl AG are in talks that could lead to a merger of their troubled structural steel divisions . |
| 10 | DYFED 'S chief fire officer , Ronnie King , urges those visiting the countryside not to leave the area littered with rubbish that could lead to a fire . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Any political decision that could lead to the closure of either Devonport or Rossythe would also put the defence of this country at risk . |
| 14 | Two witnesses have come forward with information that could lead to the killer 's arrest . |
| 15 | British Telecom is planning more job cuts that could lead to the loss of 80,000 staff over five years , unions fear . |
| 16 | they become the high-risk seed money that could lead to the investment of private funds on a commercial basis ; and |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In America we 'd get like a column , and erm , but I think you could even do more , that the real life , the people , you know , is in the high street and the shopping malls and , you know , there 's a lot of kind of horoscope and gossip and stuff that could go into a paper that could be fun . |
| 20 | In contrast , a few people pointed out the disadvantages that could arise as a result of being disabled when interacting with patients or clients . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Johnson had great difficulty finding a robot that could cope with the laser 's accuracy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As a contemporary writer observed , Moscow had no interest in an ASEAN-sponsored neutralisation that could act as a smokescreen for continued US control and influence or create a vacuum from which the Soviet Union is excluded but China , because of its location and ambitions is not . |
| 25 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |