Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the beach is crowded with swimmers , sail well clear of them since a board travelling even at low speed could do severe damage to someone 's head . |
| 2 | This sturdy little jeep could knock six bells out of your fancy gates . ’ |
| 3 | By means of tapping his foot the horse could perform mathematical calculations , and solve problems of musical harmony . |
| 4 | Iggly and squiggly they may be , but maybe their undoubted usefulness could allow these creatures to finally wriggle their way into our hearts . |
| 5 | A shift to simple wholesome living could bring long life to many more . |
| 6 | The emphasis here was placed on the need for a thorough self-appraisal of this issue before an outsider could make any assessment . |
| 7 | This magnetotail could steer larger quantities of charged particles on to the near side than on to the far side . |
| 8 | And the way she figures it , the sexy new hue could outshine old favourites white , black and beige . |
| 9 | And that the Department could make better use of the great store of experience within the teaching profession during the consultation process . |
| 10 | The adviser stressed that the appraisal could have positive spin-offs . |
| 11 | It seems increasingly likely that plutonic and granulitic rocks with grain-boundary carbon could have electrical conductivities as high as those deduced in many areas of the lower continental crust . |
| 12 | What Priestley called the business of religion could enter scientific debate on yet another level . |
| 13 | In the UK , for example , the Booksellers Association could begin immediate initiatives to assist its members . |
| 14 | The plaintiff was not interested but said that the defendant could do this work as long as the resultant program was not marketed in the UK . |
| 15 | Any witness could prove this point . |
| 16 | Young people with little education but the right connections or boldness could make more money selling goods like watermelons on the street than they could hope to earn after graduation . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S crisis-hit aircraft industry could face more job losses after the cancellation of a £2.3 billion order for the European Airbus , union leaders feared last night . |
| 18 | THE crisis-hit aircraft industry could face more job losses after the cancellation of a £2.3 billion order for the European Airbus . |
| 19 | Greenpeace has warned that the insurance industry could face catastrophic losses if it fails to take action . |
| 20 | The multimedia dimension which bolts onto the existing industry could make those alternatives both more extensive and more compelling . |
| 21 | With weed-choked crops , badly pruned mulberries , olives killed off by frost , mean strips of wheat on terraces maintained at vast expense of labour , only the extension of the domestic wool industry could save this region from decline and depopulation . |
| 22 | At the turn of a switch , an emotional tirade could become jocular chit-chat . |
| 23 | The second is , in view of the current and apparent future changes in the country , to assess whether insights from other countries in the neighbourhood could offer any lessons . |
| 24 | Failure to secure an appointment , particularly when that failure could be linked to an appearance of neglect , would produce lasting enmity more certainly than the gift of patronage could ensure permanent friendship . |
| 25 | This is undoubtedly an all European problem , United States , Canada , Japan , everyone else should be involved , er I think we should probably identify with the Soviet 's aid and help , hm , key projects like the conversion of military industry into consumer goods , er , like transport and communications , key areas of the economy where relatively small amounts of investment could produce big returns , and then finally it seems to me we should be extending to the Soviet Union for membership of er , international financial organisations like the world bank and the international monetary fund , whichever in criteria of course for helping countries and for integrating international aid to those countries . |
| 26 | A COUPLE standing in a shop doorway could provide vital clues about the bomb which wrecked Bangor last Sunday morning . |
| 27 | Any major changes in the size of groupings in the last few weeks of term could create significant problems . |
| 28 | He gave two reasons : over-critical remarks of Hailsham and Macmillan and — the main reason — ‘ It is judged that the showing of the Suez programme could have untoward consequences while the situation in the Arab world is as critical as it is at present . ’ |
| 29 | The one inescapable impression left by it all is that the canal system as a whole was so run down and dilapidated that nothing short of a central canal authority wiling and able to undertake a vast investment programme could have any hope of making the canals profitable again . |
| 30 | Despite such problems of national differences and policies , the ECSC experiment could claim some success , albeit only a partial one . |