Example sentences of "[det] could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the four factors , a confiding tie with a husband or lover was seen to be the most important , in that this could protect against depression whether or not any one of the other three vulnerability factors was present . |
| 2 | * Photochemical smog , which could approach levels experienced by London in the 1950s ; this could lead to bronchitis and breathing problems , particularly among children and old people . |
| 3 | It occurred to Susan that this could lead to legislation she would n't approve of . |
| 4 | This could lead to suspicion : two people complained that colleagues thought they might ‘ over-identify ’ and therefore lack objectivity . |
| 5 | This could lead to over-protectiveness and care had to be taken to ensure that a child was involved in all the group 's activities . |
| 6 | Alternatively , laws-of-war considerations can lead to advocacy of the enhanced radiation weapon or neutron bomb , on the grounds that it is aimed specifically to destroy military targets ( Johnson , 1984 , pp. 46–7 ) — but this could lead to pressure for first use of nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | Bill Gammell , the chief executive of the group , said this could lead to farming-out in the North Sea . |
| 8 | This could lead to prosecution of people who illicitly use passwords and codes to get access to forbidden parts of a system . |
| 9 | The school librarian may be the person controls the acquisition and borrowing of software and therefore a responsibility to ensure that software which is borrowed is not copied in school , as this could lead to prosecution . |
| 10 | This could result from bile acid mediated effects on cellular proliferation through several possible pathways as already discussed . |
| 11 | We will usually regard theft from the ES as gross misconduct and this could result in summary dismissal and referral to the police for prosecution . |
| 12 | We usually treat physical violence towards others as gross misconduct and this could result in summary dismissal . |
| 13 | But remember that this could result in isolation , at least at first . |
| 14 | This could range in scope from a review of certain commercial aspects of the target , carried out by a suitably experienced consultant , to a full ‘ long-form ’ investigation of five years ' historical financial results . |
| 15 | This could range in scope from a review of certain commercial aspects of the target , carried out by a suitably experienced consultant , to a full ‘ long-form ’ investigation of five years ' historical financial results . |
| 16 | ( This could consist of money , special diet , medical expenses or admission to the workhouse because there was a doctor there . ) |
| 17 | This could include for example : |
| 18 | Yet this could happen in addition to , rather than instead of , explicit language awareness activity in schools . |
| 19 | As the paper goes on to point out : ‘ The availability of substantial permitted reserves and the effect this could have on implementation in the case of Option II [ on which MPG6 is based ] needs to be considered . ’ |
| 20 | As the paper goes on to point out : ‘ The availability of substantial permitted reserves and the effect this could have on implementation in the case of Option II [ on which MPG6 is based ] needs to be considered . ’ |
| 21 | doing a rough rule of thumb , and that could increase for example for example the Harrogate provision by a third could n't it ? |
| 22 | Yet all of these could amount to Category 3 offences in New South Wales . |
| 23 | Richard 's disregard for their cherished customs of inheritance threatened them all , directly or indirectly , and provided a cause to which all could rally in defence of the right order of their world . |
| 24 | The same could happen with nurse prescribing . |
| 25 | Potentially the same could happen with electricity . |