Example sentences of "it could [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are hopes that the aircraft may receive a reprieve so that it could perform during the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF in April next year . |
| 2 | The next day the sun woke them early , beating down from a clear sky , baking those tiles it could reach on the terrace so that the children hopped over them , nimble as cats on hot bricks . |
| 3 | The trick was then to get the newly-formed zygote back into the mother so it could attach to the inside of the womb and develop normally . ’ |
| 4 | I would like readers to know just how serious the threat from opencast mining is , what it could mean to the landscape , nature and communities of the Gwendraeth , and what they can do to help prevent it . |
| 5 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 6 | It seems likely , however , that the low prevalence among children is largely a consequence of inability to ascertain pre-onset cases , while among parents it could stem from the effect of Crohn 's disease on marital relationships with reduced fertility , either through complications of the disease in women or reversible azoospermia during sulphasalazine treatment in men . |
| 7 | The information retrieval section needed to check facts with the IPG about the position of claimants so that it could feed into the debates about take-up campaigns and potential losers . |
| 8 | er As you know , it 's been bandied around that there 's the possibility that it could cost in the region of 3 to 3 1/2 million pounds , and obviously that 's down to the rate payer . |
| 9 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 10 | It 's analysis of the egos as , as we 've been seeing , in analysis was really all , all it could do at the beginning , after the First World War , shall we say . |
| 11 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 14 | Typical of the government 's hypocrisy , in Pink 's view , that it could bleat about the failure of exporters while at the same time putting every sort of obstacle in their path . |
| 15 | It could lead to the dilution and fragmentation of the strengths and skills of the primary health care team . |
| 16 | Just how the wave crosses the gap junction is unknown , but it could depend upon the diffusion of either calcium itself or InsP 3 . |
| 17 | But when in 1698 a new company finally won the trade in return for a loan of £2 million , Herne broke with Child and brought the ‘ old ’ company into the subscription so that it could continue in the trade . |
| 18 | Harris reports that UPS is already following this policy in Germany , and says it could spread to the U.K. The German vans use off-the-shelf diesel engines and gearboxes . |
| 19 | I was told that it could spread through the intestines to the stomach and lungs and then you had pretty much had it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And I do n't think there is any realistic way in which it could cope with the flows of a fourteen hundred dwelling new settlement . |
| 22 | Secondly , it could bind to the DNA copy of the viral RNA . |
| 23 | Then it could justify to the people the costs and benefits associated with it . |
| 24 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 25 | Though its technology , which makes chips , has won much praise , Perkin-Elmer did not think it could profit in the face of Japanese competition . |
| 26 | ‘ If only it could happen in the North-East . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The latter practice was discouraged because of the damage it could cause to the roof of the tunnel . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Ensure that no masonry falls down into the cavity , where it could interfere with the wall ties . |