Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambia accompanied Nathan back to the screen room , and in the space of that short time , gleaned more information than Tammuz could ever hope to . |
| 2 | When the election campaign resumes , the responsibility for India 's future could well revert to the Congress Party . |
| 3 | A week after the Nürburgring , I think anyone would have been hard put to imagine that Niki could possibly return to racing . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I think Italian football could well appeal to the ladies . |
| 5 | If so , the latest developments in the hospitality industry could well appeal to you . |
| 6 | Because of the size of the Recital Room , the Concert Halls could only appeal to limited groups of musicians . |
| 7 | I had never seen a kiln fired before and the unpredictable behaviour of live flame could only add to the already restless sensuality of the afternoon . |
| 8 | He sought to show how the laws imposed by certain countries to attract internationally mobile inward investment could only operate to the detriment of other states . |
| 9 | But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) For the purposes of arts 5 and 7 ( see above ) : ( a ) the value of an action for a sum of money , whether specified or not , is the amount which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover ; ( b ) an action for specified relief other than a sum of money : ( i ) has a value equal to the amount of money which the plaintiff or applicant could reasonably state to be the financial worth of the claim to him , or ( ii ) where there is no such amount , has no quantifiable value . |
| 11 | A police constable caused great concern with his assertions , made for the first time some years ago , that some Kent police officers were offering inducements to prisoners to make false admissions to offences , and to confess to crimes that they had not committed , so that the force could then add to the number of crimes they had ‘ detected ’ , and thereby improve their crime clear-up statistics . |
| 12 | But a forgery could always claim to be written by Moses in the same terms as an authentic Mosaic document . |
| 13 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 14 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 15 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 16 | Yet it 's hard to see how any court of law could possibly agree to them being removed from her . |
| 17 | They may not be used extensively now , but countries could easily turn to halons as a replacement for some CFCs . |
| 18 | Fishing , too , required protection , for the activities of hostile seamen could easily lead to the loss of catches and vessels , for which there was no insurance provision . |
| 19 | If challenged in court , Nimslo 's patent coverage could well prove to be cosmetic . |
| 20 | Taylor could never return to Golden Grove . |
| 21 | In fact , cruel strategic reality , as well as Ceauşescu 's commitment to communism , meant that Romania could never become to the United States what Cuba was to the USSR . |
| 22 | Election experts could legitimately point to the fact that a system of proportional voting could have given a very different result . |
| 23 | According to Mitsubishi , the discussions could also lead to joint microprocessor development , and announcement is expected soon . |
| 24 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 25 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 26 | to realize that it was alienating other sectors of society when the C C P could least afford to . |
| 27 | The Athenians could now return to Euboia , which they subdued ( katestrepsanto , a strong word ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It was felt that the Government 's proposals could only lead to inadequate funding which would inevitably force many practitioners to leave duty solicitor schemes and indeed the criminal practice permanently . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It was felt that the Government 's proposals could only lead to inadequate funding which would inevitably force many practitioners to leave duty solicitor schemes and indeed the criminal practice permanently . ’ |
| 30 | That the end of communism could also prove to be the end of the Catholic church 's unquestioned moral authority in Poland was the last thing the church hierarchy expected when the Solidarity leader , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , himself a long-time Catholic activist , became the first non-communist prime minister in 1989 . |