Example sentences of "it could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 2 | As part of the process , the BBC also commissioned a confidential report to show how much it could make from broadcasting commercials to supplement the licence fee . |
| 3 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 4 | Thousands of people will be on the water this bank holiday weekend — but for some it could end in tragedy . |
| 5 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 6 | Think what it could do to security . |
| 7 | I think it could do with changing . |
| 8 | They also fear it could lead to parking problems and more traffic . |
| 9 | With the arrow in this position , it could lead to injury to the face . |
| 10 | But if , as in your son 's case , the foreskin is still tight at the age of five or six , then it could lead to inflammation and discomfort — an infection could fester under the foreskin , causing redness , soreness and swelling . |
| 11 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 12 | There was a distinct possibility that it could sink without trace , weighed down by listeners ' indifference , or , of course , it might possibly cause a public outcry , disgusting not merely Tunbridge Wells . |
| 13 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |
| 14 | Any error and it could result in lorry loads of the wrong colour . |
| 15 | In addition , where an odour arises from a works on which many people rely for employment the decision whether to complain or not is influenced by the realisation that should a local authority press their employer to take costly steps to abate the odour , it could result in closure of the works with consequent loss of employment . |
| 16 | Whenever Harris talks of his human rights work , he repeatedly states than none of it could continue without Amnesty 's campaigning — the thousands and thousands of letters landing on the desk of the Guatemalan President , the faxes , the questions in Parliament . |
| 17 | it could plays at home and it played alright , it played well , but it was n't being |
| 18 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 19 | But Basic Design did deal , if obsessively and in the end mechanistically , with the nature of form and the reality of the work itself , and although Basil 's emphasis upon observation was developmentally of great value to the pre-secondary school child where a formal language pre-existed , with the older child it could deteriorate into imitation and realism , and even that deadliest of English diseases , literalism . |
| 20 | ‘ It could happen in cricket if a fast bowler hit a batsman on the head with an intimidatory bouncer , or in a rugby match . ’ |
| 21 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 22 | You 'll never keep it up ! the voice was back with all it could muster as vengeance . |
| 23 | The United States could , and did , also claim that it actually required a greater surplus than this so that it could begin to chip away at the huge ‘ overhang ’ of dollar liabilities with a view to restoring convertibility of the dollar to the SDR ( special drawing rights ) once confidence had been restored . |
| 24 | Later it could develop into music groups consisting of a variety of instruments and voices , bands , instrumental ensembles or dance groups . |
| 25 | Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case . |
| 26 | For sure Cabinets were made and unmade on the floor of the House , but the Cabinet for its part could unmake the House of Commons because it enjoyed the right to ask for a dissolution and after the election it could look for support from amongst members in a new House of Commons . |
| 27 | It could look like snobbery in conversation , but if you take it together with his family background and his interest in penance , it might look more like coming to terms with an inherited stain . ’ |
| 28 | Like any over-populated , under-capitalised place , it could stink of smoke and shit and sick and sleep . |
| 29 | In the past this was vitally important because of the effect it could have on trade . |
| 30 | It is the fact that it could turn into science , and promote a beguiling vision of mastery over nature , that has forced historians to reconsider the usual antithesis between occult and rational mentalities . |