Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the difference appeared small , the gap represented an assessment of the support each side could command in the transitional body . |
| 2 | The THES added in an editorial that the withdrawal of CNAA recognition could result in the grave consequence of the closure of an institution in the largest conurbation in Europe without a university : |
| 3 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 4 | He devised an experiment to ascertain whether salivation could occur in the absence of any obvious physical cause . |
| 5 | According to ecologists it is impossible to predict the long-term impact of tapping into the area 's subterranean reserve , but ratification of the water district plan could result in the drying up of the natural springs in the Death Valley National Monument in California , destroy verdant valleys throughout the West and kill rare fish species such as the Moapa dace , which has survived since the ice age . |
| 6 | This unpalatable circumstance could result in the very real possibility that Cassie would get a lower price for the cottage than she had paid for it , thus resulting in the disastrous situation of owing the Building Society money which she did not possess . |
| 7 | Even the wealthy New York Jewish financiers , the Guggenheims , Kuhns , Sachs , Seligmanns and Lehmanns , who had all that money could buy in the United States , which was very nearly everything , were not yet Americans in the way in which the Wertheimsteins in Vienna considered themselves Austrian , the Bleichroeders in Berlin Prussians , even the international Rothschilds in London and Paris , English and French . |
| 8 | What we now need to ask is has the time arrived er for this measure to begin to be acceptable by the Home Office , it would be nice if there was a just a little indication er as I 'm er proceeding through er this measure from the minister at the despatch box , that the time was now right for this er particular proposal er which was not anything that was voted against er on second reading but merely failed to overcome the hurdle of getting a closure when by seventy eight votes to nil er it was carried except that carrying was not sufficient in order arrive at a closure so that the measure could move in the committee . |
| 9 | A misrepresentation or misdescription could result in the landlord being unable to enforce the terms of the agreement . |
| 10 | Economists said trade figures did not yet reflect much of the yen 's recent rise against the dollar but the effect of the yen 's rise could figure in the March and April trade figures . |
| 11 | Since the radical reform could happen in the uncollectivist and weakly welfarist USA as well as in the collectivist and welfarist Italy , the obvious question to ask is why it did n't happen elsewhere in Europe . |
| 12 | Council officers believe part of the explanation for such a difference could lie in the relative affluence of North Yorkshire in comparison to other parts of the North-East . |
| 13 | What part the laity could play in the Church and how far they felt alienated is for discussion later . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) The tenant should resist a provision not to agree the reviewed rent under the underlease without the landlord 's approval , as the time it could take to obtain such approval could result in the undertenant changing its mind . |
| 15 | Local officials said that the move could result in the police and army being used locally for the first time , but reflected members ' anger and frustration . |
| 16 | A rating of 1 would mean that you feel there is no possible way in which an accident could occur in the situation , a rating of 7 would mean that you feel that you could be involved in an accident at any moment . ’ |
| 17 | Although in theory sorcery could result in the target 's immediate death , this variety was believed to be difficult and dangerous to carry out . |
| 18 | It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World . |
| 19 | Then there are others who are satisfied with superficial information because they feel that if more is revealed then conflict could arise in the family . |
| 20 | Any delay could result in the ultimate catastrophe . |
| 21 | and for Mill , representative democracy was the only way democracy could survive in the modern world . |
| 22 | When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup . |
| 23 | A controlling block of the club 's shares is going back on the market and a new owner could emerge in the next few weeks . |
| 24 | At the extreme , accidental loss of life could result in the charge of manslaughter . |
| 25 | There was , in truth , little initiative that any British government could offer in the unpromising circumstances of 1977–8 . |
| 26 | In several talks given by myself in both English and Burmese , I tried to emphasise the part which Buddhism could play in the national life . |
| 27 | ( For a mad second I fear Ma could end in the Dark . ) |
| 28 | Minor mistakes or missing the May 15 deadline could end in the loss of payments . |
| 29 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 30 | He is ready , he says , to consider Syria 's ‘ vital interests ’ in Lebanon , and by that he appears to mean that its army could stay in the Beka'a Valley , provided it is clearly intended for defence against Israeli attack and not for interference in Lebanon 's internal affairs . |