Example sentences of "it could provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | This event would presumably precede the potentials being recorded and it could provide an explanation for the apparent referral back in time in the first set of experiments , although it does seem electrophysiologically unlikely that there could be a neural change happening sufficiently early after the triggering stimulus . |
| 2 | This is seen as using RDS as a data channel of very limited capacity in conjunction with a speech synthesis chip or possibly some form of printer in the car ( it could provide automatic translation when travelling abroad ) as a means of sending ‘ traffic telegrams ’ to cars without interrupting the radio programmes . |
| 3 | However , it could provide ammunition for legal action which Ferranti intends to take against advisers and individuals in an attempt to recover some of the losses it has suffered . |
| 4 | This general doctrine applied particularly to the Middle East because : ( 1 ) it lay on the route of any Soviet expansion into Africa ; ( 2 ) it could provide bases for a Soviet role in Africa ; ( 3 ) it formed a forward position for the defence of South Africa and India ; ( 4 ) it was a base for bombing the Soviet Union ; and ( 5 ) it was an area crucial for its oil resources . |
| 5 | It could provide a clearing-house for information , contributed by national governments . |
| 6 | In different forms it could provide marriage market ( 21st birthday party or coming-out-ball ) , gynaecological information service ( women withdrew from male company at some point during the evening ) , a seasonal celebration of community spirit ( harvest home , yuletide ) or a mark of respect to a human life ( funeral , wake ) . |
| 7 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 8 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 9 | Not only will the material have uses in banks , prisons , security vehicles etc , but it could provide unbreakable windows for ordinary cars to prevent break-ins without increasing the weight of the car . |
| 10 | We reached an agreement with BOC under which it could provide the welding hardware that we would sell with our robots . |
| 11 | If a castle acted as one of a related group it could provide defence in depth : an army could be inhibited from penetrating behind a group of castles by the threat to its communications which they provided , and the danger of attack from the rear . |
| 12 | This potential demand is estimated to be of the order of 600,000 , and if it becomes clear that the housing market has bottomed out and house prices are rising once more , it could provide significant support to the housing market . |
| 13 | By setting up a nuclear energy community at the outset , it was believed that it could provide an important impetus towards closer integration . |
| 14 | It could provide additional security against France and underwrite the Dreikaiserbund ( the latest form of the Holy Alliance ) . |
| 15 | The Review of Child Care Law stated an acceptance that the state should not intervene between parent and child simply because it could provide something better than the parents but only if parents were falling so far below an acceptable standard that their children were suffering harm as a result ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Kenya could encourage further ‘ dependent ’ exports , or it could provide assistance for local producers to gain the necessary skills . |
| 17 | For example , in the 1980s the UK appears to have hosted parts of an international car industry because it could provide a relatively cheap , disciplined and flexible labour force and , as a resuIt , the parts of the production process it could host were similar to those found in some Third World countries . |
| 18 | Because of the loans it could provide , its demands for prohibition of enclosure , extensive pastures , and rights of way were backed by the crown . |
| 19 | They were trying to isolate the gene that produces insulin and insert it into the nucleus of a bacterium , so that you could get a self-replicating life-form which could then be used in the treatment of diabetes , or else it could provide a source of insulin that was n't animal-derived and did n't give you rejection problems . |
| 20 | In most cases the development of these functions would have gone hand in hand with the growth of the settlement and would have been directly related to the increasing dependence of the surrounding hinterland on the goods and services which it could provide . |
| 21 | Still fresh and green at the back end , it could provide a juicy supplement to the diet of a early calving cow , or for the smallholder 's animals newly brought in to the byre for the winter . |
| 22 | BTEC had to call on FE colleges to create closer working relationships with schools than most existing links provided — and the Council would only authorize a school to run a First Diploma course if it was satisfied that it could provide not only teachers with experience in working in business or in industry but also specialized accommodation and equipment . |
| 23 | For the person with special needs it could provide clarity of presentation . |
| 24 | The significance of the turnpike system was that , eventually , in the hands of concerned trustees , it could provide the financial means of employing the talents of a generation of road builders who pioneered techniques which remained the basis of road making into the twentieth century . |
| 25 | It could provide the basis for a cheap , ecologically desirable , integrated transport system . |
| 26 | Land reform had always been considered by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party to be a means to an end , indeed it could provide a way forward for China on economic , social , communist and ideological grounds . |