Example sentences of "[art] [noun] could [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police spokesman warned that the vandalism could result in a tragedy on the main line between Belfast and Dublin . |
| 2 | This ensured that aircraft out on the routes at outstations lacking facilities for making the checks could fly to a place where it could be done . |
| 3 | And the slides that were then machined and put into it so that the , the , the , the arm of the , the stabilizer could slip into the water you know . |
| 4 | The new Saab CD 2.3 Turbo delivers everything a high-flying chairman of the board could expect from a luxury limousine . |
| 5 | But the Scottish Office remained unsure how the board could proceed without the use of juniors , and asked how it could continue once the exemption ended . |
| 6 | Either the debtor or the creditor could appeal from the decision of the court to a single-judge Court of Appeal which gave a final decision . |
| 7 | Quick air-reinforcement with infantry was one thing , but any serious fighting or prolonged operations would need far heavier loads and greater tonnages of ammunition and supplies than the RAF could lift in the required time scale . |
| 8 | What we now need to ask is has the time arrived er for this measure to begin to be acceptable by the Home Office , it would be nice if there was a just a little indication er as I 'm er proceeding through er this measure from the minister at the despatch box , that the time was now right for this er particular proposal er which was not anything that was voted against er on second reading but merely failed to overcome the hurdle of getting a closure when by seventy eight votes to nil er it was carried except that carrying was not sufficient in order arrive at a closure so that the measure could move in the committee . |
| 9 | If you find one of those canvas military holdalls officers carry these days , the money could go in a false bottom of some sort . ’ |
| 10 | In The Money could run into a place . |
| 11 | However , this could cause difficulties because a person obtaining a computer program would expect to own the copyright of anything produced using the program , and any provisions sharing the ownership of the copyright between the user and the programmer could result in an undesirable fetter on the subsequent use of information and reports generated by the computer . |
| 12 | Legal experts predicted that the case could serve as a precedent in land claim cases where tribes alleged that treaties had been signed on their behalf by representatives of other language groups . |
| 13 | The hydrogen could accumulate during a launch and spark a serious explosion . |
| 14 | He pointed out the ban could result in an increase in the number of cheap cigarettes to arrive in Britain from the EC . |
| 15 | The ex-members could go into a corner and negotiate a new treaty for a small er number , but that would not include us . ’ |
| 16 | The House of Lords , while accepting that some elements of natural justice could apply to investigations and preliminary determinations , held that an opportunity to see the counter-statement was not required : no final decision was being made and if the taxpayer could comment on the counter-statement the Commissioners would wish to comment on those comments , thereby producing an endless succession of exchanges , bringing the administration to a standstill . |
| 17 | The taxpayer may seek to raise a robust argument based on fundamental Schedule E rules that the benefit should be limited to the amount which the taxpayer could obtain on a sale of the rights ( Tennant v Smith ( 1892 ) 3 TC 158 , Abbott v Philbin ( 1960 ) 39 TC 82 and Heaton v Bell ( 1969 ) 46 TC 11 ) . |
| 18 | The rubber stamp for the proposals could come at a meeting of the Community 's Council of Ministers at the end of June . |
| 19 | Avoidance would be easy , the camp could dissolve into the hills like mist within half an hour . |
| 20 | The Revenue indicated that a settlor 's failure to exercise the right to reimbursement , under para 6 , Sch 5 , TCGA 1992 , of tax paid on capital gains accruing to the settlement could result in an inheritance tax charge under s 3(3) , IHTA 1984 . |
| 21 | There was once a vestry built out here , and er this doorway was put in so that the vicar could get into the vestry to change his clothes . |
| 22 | Anyone who heard some of the more extravagant pictures of apprenticeship painted by some of those at the original Edinburgh meeting , must feel slightly uneasy that the Association could turn into a Don Quixote tilting lances at imaginary windmills , pursuing ‘ causes ’ that are not a reality , and being antagonistic for the sake of it . |
| 23 | The court found that the authority was an emanation of the state and referred to the European Court of Justice the questions of whether the dismissal of the applicant after reaching normal retirement age for a woman constituted discrimination prohibited by Council Directive ( 76/207/EEC ) and whether the applicant could rely on the directive in national courts notwithstanding any inconsistency between it and s. 6(4) of the Act of 1975 . |
| 24 | –Bach was well aware of the effects that the mind could exert on the body , realizing that an inharmonious , negative state of mind could impair the body 's vitality and reduce its ability to withstand environmental stress and insults . |
| 25 | Mr Whalley said the action could result in a multi-million pound claim by up to 250,000 people . |
| 26 | To legitimise their activities in Lebanon , the PLO could point to the 1969 Cairo agreement , a dubious document drawn up in Egypt between Arafat and the Lebanese army commander which permitted any Palestinian in Lebanon ‘ to participate in the Palestinian revolution ’ and to assist in guerrilla operations by safeguarding ‘ the road to the Arkoub region ’ , the great volcanic escarpment in south-east Lebanon that was now largely controlled by Arafat 's Fatah gunmen . |
| 27 | From there , the enemy could patrol against the Australians while developments took place along the east coast with an airstrip at Fuiloro , where in 1934 ( ! ) some so-called agricultural specialists had taken soil samples for a Japanese company . |
| 28 | But once it is formally rejected , the SWD could press for the money to be held in trust until the children are 18 . |
| 29 | The maximum presidential mandate was limited to two terms of seven years each ( whereas previously the president could serve for an unlimited number of five-year terms ) . |
| 30 | The department could look at the value of making use of the local environment as a resource for its teaching . |