Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] to the " 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 | Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis . |
| 4 | In theory , the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The withdrawal of Rangers ' Stuart McCall could lead to the re-emergence of Celtic 's John Collins in midfield for his tenth cap . |
| 9 | An unsuccessful applicant could appeal to the regional committee . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But men in Scotland could look to the monarchy as the focal point and representative of their aspirations , not as the frustrator of them . |
| 15 | But with the exception of Georg Joachim Rheticus ( 1514–74 ) , who had been seduced by the harmony that an exchange of earth and sun could bring to the sequence of planetary periods , the Lutheran circle inspired by Philip Melanchthon ( 1497–1560 ) played down the cosmological aspects of De revolutionibus no less than Catholic observers . |
| 16 | Such movements could add to the downward spiral which the poorer productivity countries would experience from the SEM programme . |
| 17 | This pointer could refer to the actual address , for example , the cylinder , track and head number on a disk . |
| 18 | I feel the greatest contribution the National Council could make to the Rottweiler in Australia is the stabilizing of type , but in the present climate , with a flood of imports from various destinations , this will be all the more difficult . |
| 19 | If instead a graph rather like B in Figure 8.1 applies then the prospects of a shared lhb population are enhanced , because a graph like B could correspond to the growing post-formation ‘ transparency ’ of the Solar System to a population of bodies in highly eccentric orbits traversing the whole terrestrial region and originating largely from beyond this region . |
| 20 | Timber industry groups maintain that the plan could lead to the loss of 85,000 jobs — compared to the administration 's estimate of 6,000 — and that the aid package is inadequate . |
| 21 | The introduction of compulsory elementary education after 1870 may have prompted a re-evaluation of the cost of children because it seriously diminished the contribution the child could make to the family economy . |
| 22 | I not too bothered that Scum Could get to the league cup final and FA cup final ( as long as they lose ) , I hope they do with several replays along the way . |
| 23 | Progress in the solving offshore jurisdictional dispute between Norway and Russia could lead to the two sides exploring for oil off their northern coasts . |
| 24 | Furthermore , an applicant who had been refused planning permission could appeal to the ministry . |
| 25 | Instead of the compensation payable to him being limited to £15,000 as the maximum amount of compensation payable to any one depositor , each of his five assignees could look to the fund for payment of £15,000 in respect of the £20,000 share of the deposit assigned to him . |
| 26 | Underlying the CBI and IoD concern is the worry that Cadbury 's proposals could lead to the two-tier board structure that both bodies have vehemently opposed for many years . |
| 27 | Promotion required successful completion of an examination , and no captain would willingly saddle himself with an incompetent watchkeeping officer when that officer 's negligence could lead to the loss of the ship and the captain 's inevitable court-martial . |
| 28 | Both objectives require the application of higher level knowledge to identify inconsistencies at individual levels , so it is possible that techniques developed for recognition applications could contribute to the development of text understanding systems . |
| 29 | But Blandford could travel to the court if his lawyers wish him to be present . |
| 30 | As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period . |