Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart sank ; she had been so intent on trying to score off him that she had n't given a thought to what her careless words could do to the understanding that had seemed to be developing between them . |
| 2 | Sense-based definitions of words could contribute to the subsequent overlap process by providing more concise , pertinent definitions and reducing the chances of spurious overlaps due to inappropriate but co-incident word senses . |
| 3 | This would be aimed mainly at the 12-14 age group although the middle and upper schools could participate to a lesser extent . |
| 4 | President Bush says the world must look beyond the Gulf crisis to a new deal for the Middle East , and he 's hinting that an Iraqi pull out from Kuwait could lead to an end to the conflict between the Arabs and Israel . |
| 5 | Hubbell and Foster argue that such thinking could lead to a return to the classical views of rain forest and speciation espoused by Corner , Fedorov and van Steenis . |
| 6 | Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis . |
| 7 | Where steps are not taken to avoid such holding out , the salaried partner has the same professional responsibilities as a full partner to ensure that his firm complies with the Indemnity Insurance Rules ( under which salaried partners are treated as principals ) and the Accounts Rules ( see Chapter 12 ) ; and in theory the Inland Revenue could look to a salaried partner who is held out as a member of the firm for payment of income tax payable in respect of its profits , though in practice such a claim is unlikely . |
| 8 | Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic . |
| 9 | In theory , the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue . |
| 10 | For example the reduction of body weight could lead to a problem of redesign of shape but also to one of substituting plastics for metal . |
| 11 | And if it is the intention of regions to put speakers on , especially those regions that are situated at back of Congress , if the speakers could come to the front it would save a great deal of time . |
| 12 | To legitimise their activities in Lebanon , the PLO could point to the 1969 Cairo agreement , a dubious document drawn up in Egypt between Arafat and the Lebanese army commander which permitted any Palestinian in Lebanon ‘ to participate in the Palestinian revolution ’ and to assist in guerrilla operations by safeguarding ‘ the road to the Arkoub region ’ , the great volcanic escarpment in south-east Lebanon that was now largely controlled by Arafat 's Fatah gunmen . |
| 13 | To ascribe diagnosis of such cases solely to ultrasonography is thus incorrect as prior knowledge of the results of biochemical screening could lead to a bias in identifying cases by ultrasonography . |
| 14 | But a United Nations expert from Oxford University says action could lead to a holy war . |
| 15 | It was legal to seize cattle which were trespassing on fenced land , but such action could lead to an accusation of theft . |
| 16 | Through the firm and persuasive advocacy of Marsh he was eventually permitted to incept , but the case provoked the university to decree that in future no scholar who had not ruled in arts could proceed to a degree in theology : a statute which would engender recurrent disputes between the friars and the university . |
| 17 | SPURS skipper Gary Mabbutt warned yesterday that the new back-pass rule could lead to a spate of broken legs for goalkeepers . |
| 18 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 19 | The withdrawal of Rangers ' Stuart McCall could lead to the re-emergence of Celtic 's John Collins in midfield for his tenth cap . |
| 20 | An unsuccessful applicant could appeal to the regional committee . |
| 21 | By the 1980s a certain amount of international agreement had developed , suggesting that a country 's spending on research should be justified in primarily economic terms — in terms of the technical innovations which research could deliver to the economy . |
| 22 | Similarly , if we can image that the research could lead to a diverging range of possibilities we believe that it is much more likely to lead to unexpected discoveries than would be the case if researchers were focused on a well specified target . |
| 23 | However , we must not forget that we are trying to spawn new industrial or commercial opportunities , and although researchers are encouraged to explore the full potential of their ideas whatever the outcome , it must be conceivable that the research could lead to a significant opportunity for investment within a reasonable timescale ; say a decade or so . |
| 24 | A BREAKTHROUGH in research could lead to a drug that would prevent and even reverse the symptoms of Parkinson 's disease , say American scientists . |
| 25 | A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells . |
| 26 | Although some of these issues went beyond the main remit of his Inquiry , he drew the conclusion from this basic finding that only a national government-led initiative to deal with problems of policing , unemployment , poor housing , and racial disadvantage could get to the roots of the unrest . |
| 27 | Acceptance of the proposal could lead to a resurgence in international trade in leopard skin . |
| 28 | When a patient is detained under the MHA 1983 , but the physical disorder is not caused by or is not itself the cause of a mental disorder , a restrictive interpretation of this proposal could lead to the ridiculous scenario of doctors having to wait for such a patient to deteriorate or become unconscious before medical treatment could be initiated under the protection of common law duty of care and the doctrine of necessity . |
| 29 | But men in Scotland could look to the monarchy as the focal point and representative of their aspirations , not as the frustrator of them . |
| 30 | It was a matter of fact in each individual case to decide whether such a transfer could amount to a meeting of the third condition for a donatio mortis causa . |