Example sentences of "it could [vb infin] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a company can limit its interruption claim to a period of three months rather than three years , it could expect a premium reduction of between 25 and 50 per cent . |
| 2 | The first stage in each investigation was to list the information the committee required before it could reach a valid conclusion . |
| 3 | And as well as receiving less herself , it could mean a gradual cash cutback for Princess Anne , Prince Andrew , Prince Edward and Princess Margaret . |
| 4 | He is still receiving treatment and with Canadian international Forrest still sidelined with a stomach muscle problem , it could mean a first team debut for Jason Winters . |
| 5 | With some clients that can be five minutes discussing the house , the garden or a hobby of theirs with others it could mean a short exchange of pleasantries followed by a suggestion to proceed with your intended business . |
| 6 | A visitor or resident may move a small table to suit themselves — it could mean a broken hip for another resident . |
| 7 | IT COULD make a great movie . |
| 8 | If Joseph gave him an exhibition it could make a huge difference to Leary 's reputation , yet she wondered how likely it was that Joseph would help him . |
| 9 | So have a strategy ready — it could make a big difference to how you cope . |
| 10 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 11 | Policies which no doubt David erm Allenby will explain later of Harrogate would suggest that Harrogate Borough is one in this county that feels it could accommodate a strategic site . |
| 12 | Up against a wall it was happier , as long as it could assume a lateral stance , to mark the edge of its territory with a swathe of clean pile . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it could achieve a great deal , ’ replied Julius . |
| 14 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 15 | I eventually converted it into a feeder rod ( this was in the era before today 's more suitable weapons ) and it could throw a heavy feeder with ease . |
| 16 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 17 | Müller had ended his report : ‘ If the cross Brückner describes could possibly be the genuine Relic from Kiev Cathedral it could present a serious threat to Soviet stability in the Ukraine . ’ |
| 18 | It could prompt a big swing to the Socialists in the second round or it could push left-wing voters to give up altogether . |
| 19 | Yet they reckon it could set a bad example elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( Czechoslovakia ) as well as in bigger , more important places ( India and , when their worries turn that way , the Soviet Union ) . |
| 20 | It could explain a wide range of phenomena . |
| 21 | Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ . |
| 22 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 23 | During the four weeks of hearings , the Authority admitted that if a waste store was eventually built under Mullwharchar , it could involve a continuous mining operation extending over fifty years . |
| 24 | So their affair was begun , their part-time affair , as Maria took to calling it , at first only to herself , but then aloud in Luke 's presence when she discovered that it could bring a quick frown to his face . |
| 25 | It seems reasonable to think that The Facts is imagined , and that it could promote a benevolent view of the literal or faithful — as opposed to the fantastically transgressive — imagination , which may or may not , in any given case , be directly concerned with the facts of the author 's own life . |
| 26 | However , to the group as a whole , the variable costs amount to only £70 ( £30 + £40 ) and it could earn a positive contribution by accepting the order . |
| 27 | Mr Simon Hughes , Liberal Democrat spokesman , challenged the Government to say how it could reconcile a state-run loan system with its privatisation programme . |
| 28 | It could imply a disordered experience of time , or , to the contrary , a re-ordered temporality as was the case in the experience of new recruits to factory work . |
| 29 | They discourage any ideas on the part of the Soviet Union that it could risk a nuclear attack on Europe without involving the United States . |
| 30 | WASHINGTON ( Reuter , AP ) — Opponents of NASA 's plan to launch 48 pounds of plutonium in the power pack of the Galileo space probe , said it could cause a nuclear accident worse than Chernobyl . |