Example sentences of "and could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |
| 2 | There are two in which the use of the verb legare is generic , and could reasonably refer to any kind of bequest . |
| 3 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 4 | Where such a transaction had taken place there were no problems , but naturally any forced seizures caused bitterness and could well lead to bloodshed . |
| 5 | Its consumer health division , which markets the Sanatogen range , is now up for sale and could well go to a foreign buyer . |
| 6 | A world energy shortage is far more dangerous and could even lead to wars . |
| 7 | ‘ The setting of an arbitrary limit of 2,000 prescriptions per month before payment of the new allowances will adversely affect and could even lead to closure of up to one in five pharmacists in Cheshire . |
| 8 | If the dog drops down as commanded then it will be unlikely to disturb the horses , which may otherwise be unnerved and could even attempt to bolt off . |
| 9 | His mount put in a series of sticky jumps and could never get to grips with Twin Oaks , who made all and came home clear for his eighth win over fences at the Lancashire course . |
| 10 | Churchill had been long enough at the Treasury , and could perhaps go to the India Office . |
| 11 | Twice , he got to Nicosia and could hardly respond to the ardour he found in Primaflora . |
| 12 | The categories and concepts he hammered out in his attack on Idealism — many of them of course drawn from Idealism itself , but refashioned by him — are by no means wholly adequate to serve the restatement of Christian theology , and could indeed lead to the emergence of philosophies quite alien to Christianity itself . |
| 13 | When the British paid got away they were well at the back and could only climb to 13th , a second year in which they have been badly obstructed . |