Example sentences of "it could [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beveridge , however , studied the German experiment more closely during the next year and concluded that the contributory insurance principle could not only reduce costs ; it could also eliminate reliance on means tests . ’ |
| 2 | But it is also beginning to realise that , unless it is careful , it could also face opposition from more unexpected quarters . |
| 3 | It could also make process of up-dating too demanding to sustain . |
| 4 | It could also carry pollution monitors , crop sprayers or telecommunications equipment . |
| 5 | It could also throw light on the process by which they trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | It was , therefore , given wide powers of managing and disposing of land ; but it could also develop land itself . |
| 7 | It could also house hay ( cut grass ) and threshed straw . |
| 8 | Rosehaugh Stanhope , developer of Broadgate in the City , said it could house all those affected , and Olympia and York , developer of Canary Wharf , said it could also provide space . |
| 9 | This service is intended for people who are hard of hearing but it could also help language learners follow the programme . ) |
| 10 | It could also cause liver and kidney malfunction and attack the central nervous system . |
| 11 | Similarly , the value of a reinvestigation could be weakened if , instead of co-operating , the suspect leaves his explanation for the trial , when not only can it not be investigated but when it could also cast doubt on the value of any re-investigation that has taken place . |
| 12 | It could not prevent conflict and the outbreak of armed clashes between England and France , but it meant that considerable efforts were made , on both sides , to avert disputes or to seek a speedy reconciliation . |
| 13 | Sainsbury 's felt it could not justify investment at either of these locations and instead surprised everyone by buying land at Parc Menai which has already got planning consent for a hotel and conference centre . |
| 14 | It could not require installation of control devices on vehicles sold in the county until a satisfactory device was available — and no such device was available . |
| 15 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 16 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 17 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 18 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 19 | Mr Michael Grade , the channel 's chief executive , yesterday called on the Government to explain why it could not trust ITC appointments . |
| 20 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 21 | It could well make life more awkward for ministers . |
| 22 | Stress will certainly affect the levels of a number of hormones circulating in the bloodstream and it could well alter brain metabolism . |
| 23 | I know this might sound obscure , but erm , I read somewhere when that erm , if you actually bring in protectionism , it sounds like it could actually increase trade . |
| 24 | It could conceivably trigger recession in other countries . |
| 25 | Whenever Preston said anything that sounded remotely like Famous Last Words , he always said something else quickly , something so trite and meaningless that it could never tempt Fate . |
| 26 | What this adds up to , then , is the claim that if there existed an organism which either could not act or whose actions made no difference to its perceptions then not only would that organism not be cognisant , it could never become cognisant . |
| 27 | It could only mean trouble . |
| 28 | In May , 1992 , the regional health authority informed Riverside Health Authority ( the district health authority ) that the unit 's transfer was being reconsidered and it could only commit capital to the unit if the case load was increased and if the unit could withstand a reduction of charitable funding . |
| 29 | In either event , I believe that it could only cause confusion if we were dealing with more than one previous life at a time . |
| 30 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |