Example sentences of "[noun sg] it could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are surprised at the decision and we fear the effect it could have on the battle against doping . |
| 2 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 3 | The problem is not so much the effect this will have on eastern and central African populations of leopard , which are relatively stable , but the disastrous impact it could have on the species elsewhere . |
| 4 | This case is therefore best considered as an instance not of the role of intention in trusts , but of the general role it could play in the interpretation of testamentary dispositions . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the authority of an ecumenical Council , more representative of the whole world than any previous Council , working responsibly and prayerfully across four years with all the support it could get from the ablest theologians , is clearly in human and ecclesial terms as considerable as can be . |
| 6 | He advised caution in the anti-bourgeois backlash , recognising the damage it could cause to the already frail economy . |
| 7 | The latter practice was discouraged because of the damage it could cause to the roof of the tunnel . |
| 8 | ‘ Few farmers in Northern Ireland have even seen this disease and do n't appreciate the devastation it could cause in the dairy herd , with pneumonia , abortion and subsequent infertility and mastitis . |
| 9 | The East German government clearly felt this was the only way it could agree to the departure of more than 5,000 East Germans who had flooded into the Prague embassy since the first batch were allowed to leave on Saturday night . |
| 10 | If it 's no I think what we agreed Glynis if it was going to be a stone it could go in the wall where it could be seen from outside . |
| 11 | Coleman knew the power it could exercise behind the scenes , and went on hoping through the summer of 1990 that Control would somehow find the right strings to pull . |
| 12 | I still have no explanation for why things needed to be weighed in this area , and what connection it could have with the watering hole , but I am certain that my finds from the four sides of the pond resulted from these activities . |