Example sentences of "[conj] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The service , Mr. Park argued , could either consist in the grant of a sub-licence which enabled the operator to do in Vancouver what he could not otherwise lawfully do or could consist in the refraining by the taxpayer from stopping the grantee doing what he could otherwise be stopped from doing . |
| 2 | The Hadow Report of 1926 , and its successor the Spens Report of 1938 , had envisaged that not all children would want or could profit from the kind of schooling which was available in Cardiff in the 1930s or in Thame in the 1890s , and that different kinds of pupils deserved not only various curricula but also distinctive types of school . |
| 3 | So we should not be dogmatic , and assume that the kind of life we have on Earth is the only kind that could exist in the entire Universe ; and ‘ living ’ clays may flourish elsewhere , perhaps even on Mars ( as suggested by Professor Hyman Hartman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . |
| 4 | It eliminates white blood cells that could react against the body 's own normal cells . |
| 5 | Hopes and expectations were high ; Britain was desperate for a car that could compete at the top level with Alfa Romeo and Ferrari , and BRM , with the backing of British industry , was the car to do it . |
| 6 | DOCTORS hope to announce an experiment next month that could lead to the use of animal organs for human transplants within the next five years . |
| 7 | But he added : ‘ There must be a better way of meeting those concerns than taking action that could lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 8 | British Telecom is planning more job cuts that could lead to the loss of 80,000 staff over five years , unions fear . |
| 9 | BP Nutrition , the food arm of the UK oil giant , is in talks that could lead to the Sarah Lee Corporation of Chicago acquiring its consumer food group . |
| 10 | The granting of patents on plants rewards a technology that could lead to the genetic pollution of nature , an outcome that is clearly not in the public interest . |
| 11 | Any political decision that could lead to the closure of either Devonport or Rossythe would also put the defence of this country at risk . |
| 12 | they become the high-risk seed money that could lead to the investment of private funds on a commercial basis ; and |
| 13 | Two witnesses have come forward with information that could lead to the killer 's arrest . |
| 14 | It would therefore be possible for a young school-leaver to begin acquiring qualifications that could lead in the end to gaining a technical degree qualification . |
| 15 | All the authorities have twenty eight days to appeal that could result in the final cap being higher , lower or staying the same . |
| 16 | A series of appalling disasters in the public services , notably the Kings Cross underground fire and the rail crashes at Clapham and elsewhere underlined the damage that could result from the public sector being run down . |
| 17 | So the parable envisages a situation that could arise in the early Church and advises that human judgment makes mistakes . |
| 18 | We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system . |
| 19 | The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs . |
| 20 | In Italy integration was viewed as a counterbalance to the possible domestic instability that could arise from the presence of a large and hostile Communist Party . |
| 21 | Macrophages and other inflammatory cells produce several cytokines and growth factors that could contribute to the early pathogenesis and progression of CFA . |
| 22 | Johnson had great difficulty finding a robot that could cope with the laser 's accuracy . |
| 23 | Staining also appears adjacent to the midline in r5 ( Figs 1 e and 2a ) , a region that could correspond with the location of motor neuron cell bodies . |
| 24 | Adding the percentage of retrospective completions and the percentage of errors ( discrepancies ) provides an estimate of the maximum percentage of errors that could occur for the entries in paper and pencil diaries such as those used in clinical trials : 2%+15%=17% for the morning and 9%+15%=24% for the evening . |
| 25 | A situation that could occur during the lifetime of a product , system or plant that has the potential for human injury , damage to property , damage to the environment or economic loss . |
| 26 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 27 | I thought of the Weddell Sea , the ice and the ghost of that Flying Dutchman , visualising the friction that could develop in the close confines of a yacht . |
| 28 | A single thread that could tower to the silver eye of the moon — if you could convince the spider of its need to do it . |
| 29 | The trio spread out across the acres of plasteel , holding their lasguns ready — three hunters awaiting the flushing of birds that could fly through the void . |
| 30 | A feature on the noises made by muscles in action had several member of staff listening to their own thunder by covering their ears with their thumbs and tightening their hand into fists The magazine also revived all the explanation that could account for the Loch Ness monster , an overture to the silly season , though there was little evidence that there would be one this year . |