Example sentences of "[prep] it could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 2 | As Faye 's private nurse , she would be filling an important position , and her professionalism or lack of it could make the difference between a healthy baby and another tragic loss . |
| 3 | It was possible that the whole of it could date from 1670 , having been made from two different pieces of silver . |
| 4 | Whenever Harris talks of his human rights work , he repeatedly states than none of it could continue without Amnesty 's campaigning — the thousands and thousands of letters landing on the desk of the Guatemalan President , the faxes , the questions in Parliament . |
| 5 | If Philippe knew of — or even suspected — the existence of this story , this would have been adequate reason to abolish a powerful movement whose knowledge of it could give the descendants of the Merovingians excuse to usurp the throne , claiming direct lineage from Christ . |
| 6 | At least a third of it could have been cheerfuly excised : the highlights from Tommy , for instance , merely served to show how few there were ; and there was a serious lapse of taste in resurrecting their ‘ Laughing Gnome ’ , ‘ Boris the Spider ’ ( presumably performed to give nice John Entwistle his turn in the spotlight ) . |
| 7 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 8 | The smell was so all-pervasive that nothing consumed within half a mile of it could taste of anything not pertaining to dog . |
| 9 | Knee : The knee is a complex joint and a hard kick to the front , side or back of it could produce permanent damage . |
| 10 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 11 | If one of these had gone in it could have been a different story . |
| 12 | His view finds support in the memoirs of Iakov Solov'ev , one of the major participants in the process of reform , who asserted that " Only the will of the autocrat could have sustained the numerically small and socially ill placed progressive party , which without it could have been destroyed " . |
| 13 | At least one panel member thought that an exemplar set of papers should be produced by SCOTVEC to show what was required , but others felt that an exemplar might be seen by colleges as a check list , and that close adherence to it could stifle initiative and innovation . |
| 14 | Too much bran introduced all at once to a stomach that is unused to it could cause discomfort and wind ! |
| 15 | With the formulation by Schrödinger in 1925 of the wave equation for an electron , it was clear that a solution to it could pave the way to a direct quantitative predictive method for most , if not all , chemical phenomena by using the values of a small number of physical constants . |
| 16 | ‘ If the system has broken down it could take days for it to be sorted out . |
| 17 | Interest is not just academic for it could lead to better industrial catalysts that mildly and selectively oxygenate organic compounds — normally an energy intensive process that is quite difficult to control . |