Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the new antibodies to progastricsin and DD9-E7 could increase specificity of diagnosis of intra-abdominal adenocarcinoma ( colon , stomach , small intestine , pancreas ) . |
| 2 | Norman Lamont , the chancellor , warned that the cost of the fighting could limit scope for tax cuts in his March budget . |
| 3 | If their earlier positive results could be replicated , then it was important to study how early loss could increase vulnerability to depression . |
| 4 | I was sure that my machine could use electricity from lightning to give life to the body . |
| 5 | They also warned that the drug could cause sensitivity to sunlight . |
| 6 | X and her husband could find peace of mind and could somehow be helped to strengthen their marriage . |
| 7 | While the population could understand trading off pollution for jobs , they saw no advantage to the locality in being the site of a toxic dump . |
| 8 | The gloomiest predict that the effect on confidence could turn recession into slump . |
| 9 | Clever parking could get Zoom into trouble |
| 10 | The European Commission will have to review and approve or otherwise IBM Corp 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA : it has four weeks to decide whether the alliance could harm competition in Community markets ; if it has ‘ serious doubts ’ about the transaction , it will then launch a deeper , four-month probe . |
| 11 | No development could take place without permission from the local planning authority and then only on payment of a betterment charge to the Central Land Board . |
| 12 | He further argued that no conceivable military strength in the area could defend access to oil resources against attack from the north ( i.e. the USSR ) . |
| 13 | Whether or not attitudes changed in the next ten years , by the Act 1 & 2 Victoria cap 110 of 1837 abolished arrest by ‘ mesne process ’ by which , as seen , a debtor could spend time in prison before his case had been tried in court and judgement made on it . |
| 14 | Depravity and a wasted body and spirit could give birth to health . |
| 15 | In such a case the acceptance could take effect upon despatch or upon communication to the machine at the receiving end of the telex link or upon actual communication to the offeror . |
| 16 | As quality feature films were produced so the anxieties and introspection could give way to congratulation and to a new hyperbole . |
| 17 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 18 | Under the provisions of the 1911 Act ( a measure to which the Lords acquiesced under threat of being swamped with a mass of new Liberal pro-reform peers ) , the House could delay passage of nonmoney bills for only two successive sessions , such bills being enacted if passed by the Commons again the succeeding session . |
| 19 | It is possible to see in the parallel gulf between detailed legal control over lending to the needy , and very little control over other credit , the survival of the very long-standing and deep-rooted mistrust of usury ( alongside social concern about the way that high rates of interest could turn poverty into destitution ) . |