Example sentences of "that could [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we should not be dogmatic , and assume that the kind of life we have on Earth is the only kind that could exist in the entire Universe ; and ‘ living ’ clays may flourish elsewhere , perhaps even on Mars ( as suggested by Professor Hyman Hartman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . |
| 2 | Hopes and expectations were high ; Britain was desperate for a car that could compete at the top level with Alfa Romeo and Ferrari , and BRM , with the backing of British industry , was the car to do it . |
| 3 | The granting of patents on plants rewards a technology that could lead to the genetic pollution of nature , an outcome that is clearly not in the public interest . |
| 4 | All the authorities have twenty eight days to appeal that could result in the final cap being higher , lower or staying the same . |
| 5 | A series of appalling disasters in the public services , notably the Kings Cross underground fire and the rail crashes at Clapham and elsewhere underlined the damage that could result from the public sector being run down . |
| 6 | So the parable envisages a situation that could arise in the early Church and advises that human judgment makes mistakes . |
| 7 | We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system . |
| 8 | The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs . |
| 9 | Macrophages and other inflammatory cells produce several cytokines and growth factors that could contribute to the early pathogenesis and progression of CFA . |
| 10 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 11 | I thought of the Weddell Sea , the ice and the ghost of that Flying Dutchman , visualising the friction that could develop in the close confines of a yacht . |
| 12 | Clausewitz , the great German philosopher of war , used the term " friction " to cover all the hassles and difficulty that could interfere with the smooth running of a plan . |