Example sentences of "it could [vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The documentary impulse was inherent in the contract filmmakers made with the MOI at the beginning of the war , but it could absorb the poetic romanticism or Powell-Pressburger , the sophisticated visual and verbal montages produced by Humphrey Jennings , another documentarist with surrealist roots , in such 1941 pictures as Words for Battle and Listen to Britain , as well as films in the realist tradition . |
| 2 | For the decade following the October 1973 war the United States conducted its policy ( but for a brief moment in 1977 ) on the assumption that it could exclude the Soviet Union from the political process . |
| 3 | If we know the extent to which changes in local spending affect savings and if government has some indication of the level of overall local spending during the coming year , it could make the appropriate adjustments to overall policy . |
| 4 | But , despite that , estate agents think it could make the ideal restaurant . |
| 5 | There are now fears that it could threaten the endangered monk seal population . |
| 6 | Her own mother contemplated such depravity with sorrow , convinced that it could do the poor creatures no good . |
| 7 | Sakti is thus female , or feminine ; a life-giving , nurturing , non-aggressive , loving force , and if western science is ever able to grasp the fact that human consciousness is an attribute of that same energy and not the result of physical , biochemical reactions , it could dispel the ever-increasing aggression , personal greed and psychosis that is pervading our present society like a cancer . |
| 8 | IMAGINE a gramophone needle so sensitive that it could detect the individual atoms on a record . |
| 9 | The behaviour of the Sun was therefore well worth watching , because it could influence the coming harvest . |
| 10 | As he showed in a report , dated 30th March , 1839 , to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests , the existing offices could be retained until the new block was complete , and it could form the first stage in a complete rebuilding of both sides of Downing Street . |
| 11 | He knew that whoever found it could rule the new world . |
| 12 | To return to the second point about church growth made at the end of the second chapter , ‘ demand ’ is not the only factor in church growth ; one must also consider supply , and the Free Church was gradually coming into the position where it could service the new demand . |
| 13 | It could explain the terrified silence that reigned every time they were locked up alone with him . |
| 14 | The danger is it could damage the very relations we tend , we need to build . |
| 15 | You w you will tr we do n't want you know va I mean if we get too many , it could go the other way , but we i if we could get three or four items , that would be very nice . |
| 16 | In fact managing director Almerino Furlan warned Microsoft that it could go the same way as IBM Corp because , like Big Blue , it is trying to spread itself too thin . |
| 17 | Whether or not the present library symbol and logo campaigns achieve the same success and identity , is rather early to say , but if the choice of symbol is a good and appealing one then it could bring the public library to wide attention on a host of everyday products , street-signs etc . |
| 18 | It could blow the whole thing . |
| 19 | The Soviet Union , for its part , tried to build relationships within the region in the hope that it could displace the Western powers on the tide of Arab nationalism . |
| 20 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 21 | If , however , the staffing improvement can be imaginatively exploited to create links between the special school provision , other special provision and primary or secondary schools then it could create the first stages of a unified , coherent service whose institutional boundaries are eroded . |
| 22 | ‘ It could happen the other way around as well , ’ says Enya . |
| 23 | As a result it could become the first estate in the area to have a 20mph speed limit introduced . |
| 24 | It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale . |
| 25 | Some commentators have expressed concern over the nature of this defence , fearing that , if it is construed broadly , it could endanger the whole efficacy of the Act . |
| 26 | For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 27 | Education , in itself , he said , was ‘ no panacea ’ , but it could help the young person to avoid unskilled labour . |
| 28 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 29 | The significance of the turnpike system was that , eventually , in the hands of concerned trustees , it could provide the financial means of employing the talents of a generation of road builders who pioneered techniques which remained the basis of road making into the twentieth century . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , in the works of Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel , it could question the very bases of musical performance , extending the range of expression and gesture at the same time as it undermined their very validity , and begin to colonise the imprecise border country between theatre , music and performance art . |