Example sentences of "it could [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick was then to get the newly-formed zygote back into the mother so it could attach to the inside of the womb and develop normally . ’ |
| 2 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 3 | I would like readers to know just how serious the threat from opencast mining is , what it could mean to the landscape , nature and communities of the Gwendraeth , and what they can do to help prevent it . |
| 4 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 5 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 6 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 7 | It could lead to the poor of the world conceiving children and selling the foetuses to help the rich . |
| 8 | It could lead to the dilution and fragmentation of the strengths and skills of the primary health care team . |
| 9 | Harris reports that UPS is already following this policy in Germany , and says it could spread to the U.K. The German vans use off-the-shelf diesel engines and gearboxes . |
| 10 | It could bind to the viral RNA ( Figure 21 ) , preventing it from being copied into the double-stranded DNA which later integrates into the host chromosomes . |
| 11 | Secondly , it could bind to the DNA copy of the viral RNA . |
| 12 | Then it could justify to the people the costs and benefits associated with it . |
| 13 | The East German government clearly felt this was the only way it could agree to the departure of more than 5,000 East Germans who had flooded into the Prague embassy since the first batch were allowed to leave on Saturday night . |
| 14 | He advised caution in the anti-bourgeois backlash , recognising the damage it could cause to the already frail economy . |
| 15 | The latter practice was discouraged because of the damage it could cause to the roof of the tunnel . |
| 16 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 17 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 18 | However , where an authority considered that a particular course was essential to the national or regional interest but regarded the cost as excessive , it could propose to the AFEC that it covered the whole cost of that course . |
| 19 | It could listen to the electricity in wires , and the stuff in the air that Dorcas called ‘ radio ’ . |