Example sentences of "it could [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 2 | Possibly the greatest fear one might have is that , because the lesson is relatively unstructured , it could grind to a halt . |
| 3 | Westland claimed it could rely upon the arbitral clause within the contract to bring an action for breach of contract against both the Organisation and the member States . |
| 4 | There are hopes that the aircraft may receive a reprieve so that it could perform during the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF in April next year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The next day the sun woke them early , beating down from a clear sky , baking those tiles it could reach on the terrace so that the children hopped over them , nimble as cats on hot bricks . |
| 7 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 12 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 13 | It decided that it could benefit from a smart up to date information section for liaison with press and public . |
| 14 | It seems likely , however , that the low prevalence among children is largely a consequence of inability to ascertain pre-onset cases , while among parents it could stem from the effect of Crohn 's disease on marital relationships with reduced fertility , either through complications of the disease in women or reversible azoospermia during sulphasalazine treatment in men . |
| 15 | The information retrieval section needed to check facts with the IPG about the position of claimants so that it could feed into the debates about take-up campaigns and potential losers . |
| 16 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 17 | er As you know , it 's been bandied around that there 's the possibility that it could cost in the region of 3 to 3 1/2 million pounds , and obviously that 's down to the rate payer . |
| 18 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 19 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 20 | It 's analysis of the egos as , as we 've been seeing , in analysis was really all , all it could do at the beginning , after the First World War , shall we say . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I — I mean , I thought — it was — it could do with a clean so I- ’ |
| 23 | It could do with an awful lot more trees all over it . |
| 24 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Coleman knew the power it could exercise behind the scenes , and went on hoping through the summer of 1990 that Control would somehow find the right strings to pull . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Typical of the government 's hypocrisy , in Pink 's view , that it could bleat about the failure of exporters while at the same time putting every sort of obstacle in their path . |
| 29 | well I would think if it could lodged during the course of the next ten days or so |
| 30 | His translation of magna socieias as ‘ large company ’ is far more probable , and it could refer to an individual rebel band which was threatening to dominate an area . |