Example sentences of "[noun sg] it could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman of ITV Sport Greg Dyke said that now the new league may not become the major force it could have been . |
| 2 | As a result it could become the first estate in the area to have a 20mph speed limit introduced . |
| 3 | You do n't know what harm it could do now . ’ |
| 4 | There was only one photograph it could have been — the picture of John that accompanied our messages . |
| 5 | You felt that if the right component was put into the equation it could help tackle them all . ’ |
| 6 | This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical ; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies . |
| 7 | With a little more attention to the parser it could have been a Sizzler , but even as it stands it 's well worth your dosh so get out there and part with it at once ! |
| 8 | ‘ We are surprised at the decision and we fear the effect it could have on the battle against doping . |
| 9 | In the past this was vitally important because of the effect it could have on trade . |
| 10 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 11 | When there was no further hope , Saga contacted you and offered the best alternative it could find at short notice and , as that was not acceptable , refunded your money in line with their contractual obligations to you . |
| 12 | In the past tinnitus received very little attention , and the distress it could cause went almost unrecognized . |
| 13 | Chapman 's final advice to Clough is not to linger too long in the job because of the toll it could take upon him . |
| 14 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 15 | Palaeo-biological precedent dictated such an organ be housed in Gavin 's ample rear , and have responsibility for his lower limbs — not to say urges — rather than his arms , but then one never knew , and I reckoned Gavin 's modest forebrain — doubtless fully occupied with the post-modernist sub-texts and tertiary structuralist imagery of Red Heat — could probably do with all the help it could get . |
| 16 | The freedom of the city was the highest honour it could bestow , and this has been granted to the Royal Engineers in 1949 ; since then they had taken an active part in the life of the city . |
| 17 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 18 | But Basic Design did deal , if obsessively and in the end mechanistically , with the nature of form and the reality of the work itself , and although Basil 's emphasis upon observation was developmentally of great value to the pre-secondary school child where a formal language pre-existed , with the older child it could deteriorate into imitation and realism , and even that deadliest of English diseases , literalism . |
| 19 | A question it could ask is what would be wrong with letting a market instead of a clique of investment banks determine a share 's correct price . |
| 20 | In a crisis it could have doubled as a draught excluder or , if the pub got rough , as a cosh . |
| 21 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
| 22 | And it , that 's the only place it could have stood , there . |
| 23 | I agree that in hindsight it could have been clearer |
| 24 | Well , she did n't really see what difference it could make , but she was obedient . |
| 25 | They reckon that if erm Australia lose another match it could mean that they wo n't even make the semi finals and erm they reckon like that , that channel nine that 's supposed to be backing all this |
| 26 | I mean twelve months is is the minimum period it could have been more . |
| 27 | Like Pinocchio 's nose it could shoot in and out . |
| 28 | If a castle acted as one of a related group it could provide defence in depth : an army could be inhibited from penetrating behind a group of castles by the threat to its communications which they provided , and the danger of attack from the rear . |
| 29 | And if more companies apply to their local authority for grant cash it could sway the Government 's decision to award the City Challenge money . |
| 30 | The CEGB itself admitted that if a plane weighing over 2.3 tonnes — a five seater light aircraft — struck one of the core buildings of the complex at a critical point it could lead to an ‘ uncontrolled release of radioactivity ’ . |