Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of hot air likely to be generated over the 12 days could trigger off the kind of chain reaction that global warming scientists only refer to in hushed tones . |
| 2 | Unless they show an unprecedented degree of self-discipline , the economic disappointment of the past dozen years could slide past the point of no return . |
| 3 | All three processes could contribute to the adaptedness of the nest-building . |
| 4 | The new guide says up to 10,000 pubs could close by the end of the decade . |
| 5 | Instead of the compensation payable to him being limited to £15,000 as the maximum amount of compensation payable to any one depositor , each of his five assignees could look to the fund for payment of £15,000 in respect of the £20,000 share of the deposit assigned to him . |
| 6 | John Durno , governor of Saughton prison , said yesterday that up to 200 prisoners could go through the programme in the year . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the greater forces would be assembled in the forest : the fire in the sloop should act as a decoy , so that the army of over five hundred warriors could fall on the settlement while its defenders were distracted , sweeping down on them , while they flapped around the burning ship , from the rainforest where they would be concealed till then . |