Example sentences of "[verb] that [adj] [noun] could " in BNC.

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1 Surveys suggest that other motorists could do much more to make life easier for disabled drivers .
2 Studies of hospital practice suggest that larger reductions could be achieved and sustained if the guidelines became a required standard of good general practice and formal peer review was introduced with steps to ensure compliance , particularly among practices with high referral rates .
3 We are running up Trundleys Road across the Surrey Canal when I suggest that this running could get us nicked by the police .
4 Overall , Nasa suggest that this spring could see a reduction of between 30-40 per cent in the ozone layer over the northern hemisphere .
5 Reports from Lebanon suggest that British hostages could be closer than ever to freedom .
6 Interest in Channel4 's coverage of the game and booming sales of NFL products suggest that American football could be ripe for development in Scotland .
7 To reflect this , the Consultative Paper proposed that such centres could be offered the opportunity to accept devolved responsibility for quality elements normally administered by SCOTVEC , provided that the internal quality systems in place were appropriate to each element for which devolved responsibility was being sought .
8 In an early comment upon denudation chronology Day Kimball ( 1948 ) proposed that historical geology could be divided into two parts : stratigraphy , which deals with what is there and denudation chronology , which is concerned with what is n't !
9 ALL THE PRESIDENT 'S TAXMEN On the campaign trail , the next US president promised that high earners could expect to pay more tax — and foreign-owned companies much , much more — if he won the election .
10 Alfred Marshall , the leading economist of the last decades of the nineteenth century , provided new tools for analysing the economy and demonstrated that involuntary unemployment could occur .
11 The research also demonstrated that older workers could maximize their efficiency if they were able to control their own work pace .
12 She demonstrated that some women could make their voices heard on political as well as spiritual matters during the Interregnum .
13 It was some time before the pleasurable realization occurred that real communication could take place , that noises , grimaces , and gestures could bridge the gap where there were no shared words and thus give mutual delight . )
14 But with reasonable adjustments of time and numbers , I propose that this arrangement could be considered .
15 In 1978 it was claimed that these devices could not produce electricity at a cheaper rate than 20 pence per kilowatt hour ( as opposed to the Central Electricity Generating Board 's 2.7 pence per kilowatt hour ) but this has now been reduced to 10 pence per kilowatt hour while Dr Salter maintains that the Duck could achieve 4 pence per kilowatt hour .
16 Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys .
17 Jan Reedijk and co-workers at the state University of Leiden in the Netherlands found that cis- DDP could bond to two guanine bases in a small chain of single stranded DNA despite an intervening cyosine base ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 2664 ) .
18 Then Kao , Japan 's detergent giant , found that Japanese households could be sold space-saving packs of ‘ compact ’ powder .
19 He even transplanted nuclei from adult skin cells in culture and again found that normal development could take place .
20 By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other !
21 Inspectors visited 17 schools and in some of the seven primaries found that parental contributions could double the capitation allowance given by a local education authority .
22 The Home Affairs Select Committee report , when the Committee looked at sick leave , for example , found that some progress could be made in improving on the sick absence record of police officers .
23 We found that anti-ICAM-1 antibody could block the enhancement of anticolon ADCC through IFN-γ treatment of target cells , on which the ICAM-1 expression was remarkably induced .
24 She was there with the warmth , sympathy and understanding that few others could offer .
25 But the sensational pile-up re-emphasised that any horse could win the National and revitalised public interest .
26 Whilst we did consider that this site could be developed with a single storey dwelling without seriously affecting the amenities of the village , we were not aware of the strength of local feeling against any development on this site .
27 In that year Peyton Rous of the Rockefeller Institute in New York reported that solid tumours could be transmitted between chickens by filtered solutions from which all bacterial and animal cells had been removed .
28 Griffiths realized that this situation could not be changed overnight , so under the new regulations the NHS will still be allowed to carry on providing long-term care if it wishes .
29 We believe that it is right to have a minimum deterrent so that no potential aggressor can think that this country could be attacked and that they could be unaffected by any retaliation .
30 They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’
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