Example sentences of "it could [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 2 | Possibly the greatest fear one might have is that , because the lesson is relatively unstructured , it could grind to a halt . |
| 3 | It would be nice if you could leave the fax modem in Auto-answer mode and it could distinguish between a fax machine or another modem that was calling it , and act appropriately . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No it could do in a moment or two though it er , it looks a bit ominous , you rub one or two er doubts , they are similar colour to these actually |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | well I would think if it could lodged during the course of the next ten days or so |
| 19 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 20 | They say it could lead to a melt-down more serious than that at Three Mile Island in 1979 . |
| 21 | We think it could lead to a stalemate . |
| 22 | I rather suspect it could lead to a lot of foul-hooked fish , which is another thing I deplore when done deliberately . |
| 23 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 24 | There are always launderettes and it could lead to a career in pop music . ) |
| 25 | They 're undergoing trials with Swindon Town Football Club , each one hoping that it could lead to a career in first division football . |
| 26 | It could lead to the dilution and fragmentation of the strengths and skills of the primary health care team . |
| 27 | If it is too long it could lead to an explosion of potential interpretations . |
| 28 | Engelberger talked about what he called the Unimate , a mechanical arm controlled electronically so it could move like a human 's . |
| 29 | Just how the wave crosses the gap junction is unknown , but it could depend upon the diffusion of either calcium itself or InsP 3 . |
| 30 | If it could boot from a network or a CD , disk space would be less of an issue but it ca n't . |