Example sentences of "it could [verb] to 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 Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 We think it could lead to a stalemate .
6 Kleinwort Benson said it could lead to a further 15 per cent fall in property values .
7 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 :
8 I rather suspect it could lead to a lot of foul-hooked fish , which is another thing I deplore when done deliberately .
9 Like a faster-acting computer programme , decisions and judgements can speed up , and it could lead to a higher IQ !
10 It could lead to a second defeat .
11 Certainly it could lead to a valuable teacher-learner dialogue .
12 There are always launderettes and it could lead to a career in pop music . )
13 They say it could lead to a melt-down more serious than that at Three Mile Island in 1979 .
14 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 .
15 They 're undergoing trials with Swindon Town Football Club , each one hoping that it could lead to a career in first division football .
16 There 's a move to slow them down , but the hauliers say it could lead to a very dangerous situation .
17 I have already had countless phone calls and letters from Rugby World & Post readers asking about the law of repeated infringement and if it could apply to a team as well as an individual player .
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