Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Administrators have been given greater access to confidential documents , which could facilitate taking legal action against auditors and other advisers . |
| 2 | Secondly , the discussion on why the schools were needed and what they could achieve reveals significant features of both the age and the class relationships . |
| 3 | SCOTTISH companies could choose to become major players in the £136 billion world market for green technologies , or risk being left behind in the race to win orders , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 4 | What major differences do you have , as a couple , that you could see causing real problems in marriage ? |
| 5 | The net result of Unix International 's latest Application Binary Interface effort may be the creation of a Unix ‘ brand ’ for operating systems that independent software vendors could use to develop common applications against . |
| 6 | It is understood that the Attorney General , Harry Whelehan , advised that the amnesty could work to undermine public confidence in the equity of the tax system . |
| 7 | There are potential pitfalls , the association may become dominated by an unrepresentative majority that could attempt to bring undue pressure on school policies . |
| 8 | National councils were an obvious forum in which churchmen could attempt to secure lay assent to their wishes , and this can seldom have seemed more desirable than in the years around 1000 . |
| 9 | A large amount of capital ( £200,000 ) was available to the Western Isles Project from the Van Leer Foundation ; it is doubtful whether individuals , however dedicated , could have raised sufficient enthusiasm for action without it . |
| 10 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 11 | Last night , as detectives waited to continue their questioning , they said they feared Joanna could have blotted important details of her ordeal from her mind . |
| 12 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 13 | In the match programme , Tottenham urged their fans to wear condoms — if only they could have ensured similar protection from Newton . |
| 14 | Some parts of the liver could have sustained mild damage during their exposure — not enough to cause characteristic symptoms such as jaundice , but enough to leave a legacy of inadequate detoxification systems . |
| 15 | Governments could have offset declining profitability by cutting taxes on profits or by increasing the generosity of tax allowances given for investment . |
| 16 | Assistant mechanic Jonas found a chip pan on fire in the galley and put it out — this could have caused serious problems for the salvage attempt by a tug on the way from Lowestoft . |
| 17 | Though it is plausible that Mercury and the Moon could have lost large quantities of volatiles to space it seems unlikely that this explains the extreme extent of their depletions . |
| 18 | Indeed , the understrength Lithuanians , who had fought back from two down to get their first Group Three point in Belfast , could have inflicted similar embarrassment on the Republic . |
| 19 | Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time . |
| 20 | Government leaders might have welcomed a united report from the Royal Commission , which could have justified real reform of the Poor Law . |
| 21 | In other words , the managers at the LBO could have achieved similar results without a buy-out ; what they were doing was seizing the gain for themselves . |
| 22 | The atmosphere thus acts as a ‘ bottleneck ’ , and could have retained sufficient heat of formation for it to account for the present excess radiation . |
| 23 | Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer . |
| 24 | The Prussian government could have forced agricultural change by opening up its borders to competition from cheap Russian grain , thus undercutting the Junkers and forcing them to modernise and/or change over to dairy farming . |
| 25 | But he added that they could have had serious consequences for her if they had been true . |
| 26 | At the time she had had Peter in her tummy and a fall could have had serious consequences for both herself and the unborn baby . |
| 27 | Shildon , he explained , had been dismissed from the Detroit paper towards the end of a long and exhaustive investigation which , if the results had been published , could have had serious repercussions for MacQuillan 's political associates . |
| 28 | They could have had live bombs on board or anything . |
| 29 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 30 | It is marked out not just by virtuosity and weight of tone ( there was a time when the Leningrad Philharmonic could have supplied front-desk players to virtually every other top-class orchestra in the world ) but also by an astonishing unity of expressive purpose . |