Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if one bank has excess cash and another a shortage of cash , the first bank could make a short-term loan to the second . |
| 2 | A false report of theft could be made to a next-door neighbour , perhaps to cover up for dealing with property wrongfully , and then the neighbour could make a genuine report to the police about the false theft , thereby causing police time to be wasted . |
| 3 | Perhaps the development by lay shareholders of the scepticism implied by Mr Smith 's survival techniques could make a substantial contribution to avoiding a repetition of the public shock that attended the corporate failures at the end of the 1980s . |
| 4 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 5 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 6 | Taken together these could make a real contribution to improved corporate performance . |
| 7 | The conclusion must be that it could , only if there had have been genuine prospects that an improved , amalgamated and better managed canal system could make a viable contribution to an efficient transport system of the country . |
| 8 | They are already in use in Australia , America , Brazil and Tanzania , and could make a major contribution to managing insect-borne diseases and crop pests , according to Dr Janet Hemingway of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |
| 9 | PAUL Gascoigne could make a sensational return to the Spurs team in a game which could decide the League championship . |
| 10 | If you base yourself in Kinlochleven and use the popular campsite in the glen for an overnight stop , the circuit could make a rewarding introduction to the rigours of backpacking in this Highland region . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But these dispersed and autonomous ‘ legions ’ of Ukrainians , Balts , Caucasians and Central Asians , attached as auxiliaries to German units , were a very different matter from the formal recognition that a true Great Russian army of Slav Untermensch could make a valuable contribution to the defeat of the USSR . |
| 13 | Although technology to reduce pollution could make a significant contribution to the problem , the industry showed ‘ minimal ’ commitment to innovation , research and development , it said . |
| 14 | Mental and emotional problems , which began long before the food intolerance , could make a significant contribution to the symptoms , once the gut has become sensitized and over-reactive . |
| 15 | As ‘ the most successful mathematics students will generally be versatile learners ’ , this , if it is true , could make a significant contribution to our understanding of the processes by which girls are gradually marginalised in mathematics . |
| 16 | Access to their libraries , computers , meetings rooms , sports halls , playing fields and swimming pools could make a big contribution to community life . |
| 17 | So have a strategy ready — it could make a big difference to how you cope . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Money released on that scale could make a vital contribution to closing a gap of about £3 billion a year in investment in affordable , rented accommodation over Britain as a whole , the report states . |
| 20 | As she endeavoured to come to terms with the realities of her marriage and royal life , there were moments in those early years when Diana sensed that she actually could cope and could make a positive contribution to the royal family and the wider nation . |
| 21 | And once we take notice that in reality individual holdings in companies , other than in exceptional cases , give the holder negligible rights of control it becomes clear that ownership of corporate property could make no distinctive contribution to the realisation of whatever individual interests might be specified . |
| 22 | The treasurer asked if we could make an early start to the meetings eight P M prompt . |
| 23 | TONY ADAMS could make an unexpected return to the England team against Yugoslavia at Wembley on Wednesday . |
| 24 | Companies are under no obligation to do so but , for those people lucky enough to work for an organisation willing to amend its pension scheme rules accordingly , this new provision could make an immense difference to the financial position of early retirees . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Olive Fitzpatrick suffers with Alzheimer 's disease and went into a nursing home so her 72year-old husband could make the ill-fated trip to America with their son Liam . |
| 27 | In the previous section we mentioned that the programmer using fixed-point binary format could consider the binary point to be at an appropriate position in the word for each item of data . |
| 28 | The coffee thermos and cups were fetched , the incense came again but this time it was passed more slowly , so that everyone could enjoy the sweet-smelling smoke to a greater extent . |
| 29 | I could sense the steep drop to my left , though I could not see it due to the trees and thick foliage that lined the roadside . |
| 30 | The regulationist school could give a similar interpretation to the hegemony of national economies in each of the other periods of structural change in the UK economy . |