Example sentences of "could [vb infin] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resolution 45/63 expressed concern at Israel 's continuing nuclear build-up and urged all states " not to co-operate with or give assistance to Israel that could enhance its nuclear weapons capability " . |
| 2 | It was the premium put upon child labour within the domestic family economy of textile manufacture which provides the context for Defoe 's observations of around 1720 on Norfolk that " the very children after four or five years of age , could earn their own bread " , while at Taunton " there was not a child in the town , or in the villages round it , of above five years old , but , if it was not neglected by its parents , and untaught , could earn its own bread " . |
| 3 | Liberal Democrats say they are appalled the Post Office could deliver its moderate leaflets with BNP documents . |
| 4 | From the very beginning of her own spectacular career , therefore , even before her own personality could make its distinctive mark , she was a person to create doubts , and even fear . |
| 5 | By showing how every soul could make its own way to God , without the mediation of priests or ministers of the educated classes , it helped to give a sense of dignity and individual worth to thousands who were turned off their land by enclosures and absorbed by the Dark Satanic Mills of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 6 | He put his other arm round her waist and she thought wildly that it could make its own way there by now . |
| 7 | Or it could preserve its ideological purity and risk losing the elections . |
| 8 | Apprentices were trained to make drawings rapidly , so that when they saw some machinery with which they were unacquainted they could sketch its salient features ; this would correspond to the field sketch of the naturalist . |
| 9 | Conceivably a company could underestimate its future operating costs . |
| 10 | Provided the Soviet regime could ensure its short-term survival , there would be time for the German revolution to bring political and material relief to the Soviet federation . |
| 11 | In their presence , the audience could feel its civilized surface annulled and replaced by a consoling sense of unity with nature . |
| 12 | The tide was far out over a wide plain of sand but you could see its many colours silvering towards those reaches where sky and horizon misted together . |
| 13 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 14 | Four aspects are being investigated : removal of surplus letters ; the most useful forms of sound-symbol relationships ; whether English spelling could follow its own rules consistently ; and how everything in print could stay readable . |
| 15 | Lord Haldane L. C. upheld the general principles in the Rice case but refused access to the housing inspector 's report or to the Board itself : when a matter is entrusted to a department of state or similar body , Parliament should be taken , subject to contrary intent , to have meant that it could follow its own procedure which would enable it to work with efficiency . |
| 16 | Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries . |
| 17 | And if the system was improved , Liverpool could keep its current quota of MPs . |
| 18 | It decided what was to be debated , for how long and when the final vote was to be taken , so that the government could plan its legislative programme and could forecast accurately when each legislative train would reach the various stages on the journey to enactment . |
| 19 | In the long run , however , ministers doubted whether the country could meet its present commitments to these organizations in the light of the events of July-August . |
| 20 | A coordinated European recovery programme could secure its national components against adverse commercial pressures and reinforce development programmes through international convergence . |
| 21 | Grout could detect its soggy odour even over the smell of Mr Smith 's Aramis . |
| 22 | In 1973 the tide turned with a 5-to-4 majority ruling by the Supreme Court in Miller v California that obscenity , as narrowly defined , was not protected by the First Amendment , and that each state could set its own standard : ‘ People in different States vary in their tastes and attitudes , and this diversity is not to be strangled by the absolutism of imposed uniformity . ’ |
| 23 | So that his firm could lay its own line to Germany , he floated Reuters as a £250,000 public company in 1865 , taking the post of managing director . |
| 24 | In Chicherin 's view , the emancipation of the serfs had to take place before the government could reconstruct its financial system , set military recruitment on a sound footing , introduce press freedom , reform the country 's legal institutions , encourage the development of industry or promote the education of the masses . |
| 25 | Happy Computing could have its own problem with pirates . |
| 26 | Desolation could have its own beauty . |
| 27 | Through setting goals with priority areas , and through involving both staff and pupils , it suggested each school could take its own path to becoming ‘ the considerate school . ’ |
| 28 | The Illinois decision about ‘ involuntary agency ’ illustrated only one possible basis for an assertion of proper service ; each of the States could develop its own alternatives to the Convention . |
| 29 | The elephant 's belly heaved up and down rhythmically and slow , and I floated up and down with it , and I could hear its great heart-beat like the heart-beat of a new and gentler world . |
| 30 | The hedgehogs could hear its tremendous feet crunching through the weeds as it bounded away . |