Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] could [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It estimates that up to 50 per cent of retail gasoline outlets could close in the face of the cost of complying with the new regulations , which include compulsory liability insurance , leak-detection systems and anti-corrosive tanks . |
| 2 | According to ecologists it is impossible to predict the long-term impact of tapping into the area 's subterranean reserve , but ratification of the water district plan could result in the drying up of the natural springs in the Death Valley National Monument in California , destroy verdant valleys throughout the West and kill rare fish species such as the Moapa dace , which has survived since the ice age . |
| 3 | Although in theory sorcery could result in the target 's immediate death , this variety was believed to be difficult and dangerous to carry out . |
| 4 | A WARNING that the Church of Scotland 's parish structure could collapse in the face of threatened cuts in funding has been made in a report to go to the General Assembly in May . |
| 5 | and for Mill , representative democracy was the only way democracy could survive in the modern world . |
| 6 | During the process the bronze was bathed in a solution of zinc salts and , unless it was carefully washed afterwards , some of these zinc salts could persist in the remaining patina on the surface . |