Example sentences of "it could [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly the greatest fear one might have is that , because the lesson is relatively unstructured , it could grind to a halt . |
| 2 | It would be nice if you could leave the fax modem in Auto-answer mode and it could distinguish between a fax machine or another modem that was calling it , and act appropriately . |
| 3 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 4 | It decided that it could benefit from a smart up to date information section for liaison with press and public . |
| 5 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 6 | It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 7 | ‘ I — I mean , I thought — it was — it could do with a clean so I- ’ |
| 8 | No it could do in a moment or two though it er , it looks a bit ominous , you rub one or two er doubts , they are similar colour to these actually |
| 9 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 10 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 11 | We think it could lead to a stalemate . |
| 12 | Kleinwort Benson said it could lead to a further 15 per cent fall in property values . |
| 13 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 14 | I rather suspect it could lead to a lot of foul-hooked fish , which is another thing I deplore when done deliberately . |
| 15 | Like a faster-acting computer programme , decisions and judgements can speed up , and it could lead to a higher IQ ! |
| 16 | It could lead to a second defeat . |
| 17 | Certainly it could lead to a valuable teacher-learner dialogue . |
| 18 | There are always launderettes and it could lead to a career in pop music . ) |
| 19 | They say it could lead to a melt-down more serious than that at Three Mile Island in 1979 . |
| 20 | Can I also add that it will also instigate centrally determined policing policies , very much akin to other government policies , particularly economic policies which have , as yet , done nothing to address the underlying causes of crime and there are fears and I 'm quoting here from the er the response made by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities , the Association of County Councils and the Association of District Councils that it could lead to a national Police force . |
| 21 | They 're undergoing trials with Swindon Town Football Club , each one hoping that it could lead to a career in first division football . |
| 22 | There 's a move to slow them down , but the hauliers say it could lead to a very dangerous situation . |
| 23 | Engelberger talked about what he called the Unimate , a mechanical arm controlled electronically so it could move like a human 's . |
| 24 | If it could boot from a network or a CD , disk space would be less of an issue but it ca n't . |
| 25 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 26 | Axelrod and Hamilton point out that reciprocal altruism could evolve without the need for individual recognition in a sessile organism ; in principle , it could evolve in a plant . |
| 27 | It could serve as a model for all the great industrial centres in France . |
| 28 | The book is complementary to Durant and Fabb 's Literary Studies in Action , published by Routledge in the Interface series in 1990 , and in many ways it could serve as a useful introduction to that volume . |
| 29 | Given the DNA-dependent phosphorylation of Jun-Core in crude nuclear extracts , we were interested to determine whether it could serve as a substrate for the DNA-PK . |
| 30 | It could go as a joint European-American force , or as a purely European one . |