Example sentences of "it could offer " in BNC.

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1 The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it ‘ disciplines and controls our lads … tames flippancy , quells impertinence , promotes chivalry , encourages reverence , teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority , and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things ’ .
2 The only new techniques it could offer would be illegal ones .
3 Sotheby 's was selected because the auction house could move faster than the Public Library , the original lender-to-be , and because it could offer a ‘ very favourable ’ interest rate , which neither of the parties will disclose .
4 Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't .
5 Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't .
6 Ed Zschau , chief executive of IBM Corp 's AdStar subsidiary , says the company plans to become known as a consumer products company as well as the leader in commercial storage products , and would pursue all of the market opportunities in which it could offer unique products ; he says AdStar aims to become the lowest cost producer in the industry , taking advantage of its technology , scale and commitment to quality ; speaking at the product launch in San Jose , he said that AdStar would also become known , more than it is today , as a software company ; it expects to have personal computer-oriented products in the retail market before the end of the year .
7 It could offer opportunities for embarrassing independent lords , as Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse showed when he assisted the rebellious inhabitants of Montpellier against William VI ; but his own financial losses when the right to take tallage or forced loans from Toulouse escaped his grasp in 1147 , outweighed any advantage elsewhere .
8 The secular arm could only be enlisted in specific cases against named and duly warned individuals ; it could offer no aid against those categories of offenders pronounced , in various general and local sentences , as excommunicate ipso facto .
9 His son , seeking to staunch the outflow of money on the Scottish war , quickly arranged a truce , but it could offer few hopes of long-term disengagement .
10 David Mercer joined the editorial board ; so did Mo Teitlebaum , involved in TV , the poet Adrian Mitchell , looking for rather more than It could offer , and Robin Fior , a designer .
11 The only option it could offer , said Mr Kerfoot , was one involving transfer of the oil to road at sidings in Middlesbrough at about £35 a tonne .
12 Mr Pullar said the league was not trying to buck the council but the council did not appear to feel it could offer the league the facilities at reasonable prices .
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