Example sentences of "it could [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Finnish Parliament 's Wilderness Act , which includes plans to log some of the county 's most ancient forests , has come under attack from environmentalists who claim that it could result in the permanent destruction of the wilderness . |
| 3 | But when in 1698 a new company finally won the trade in return for a loan of £2 million , Herne broke with Child and brought the ‘ old ’ company into the subscription so that it could continue in the trade . |
| 4 | If it 's no I think what we agreed Glynis if it was going to be a stone it could go in the wall where it could be seen from outside . |
| 5 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 6 | Though its technology , which makes chips , has won much praise , Perkin-Elmer did not think it could profit in the face of Japanese competition . |
| 7 | While there is no evidence of such practices being widespread in the country , the fact that it could happen in the main prison in the capital of India was a matter of scandal . |
| 8 | ‘ If only it could happen in the North-East . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Few farmers in Northern Ireland have even seen this disease and do n't appreciate the devastation it could cause in the dairy herd , with pneumonia , abortion and subsequent infertility and mastitis . |
| 10 | The British government possessed reserve powers , so that it could interfere in the government if it so wished . |
| 11 | She is n't curio I mean yo er erm , I can see if you it could get in the way of accepting the story . |
| 12 | This case is therefore best considered as an instance not of the role of intention in trusts , but of the general role it could play in the interpretation of testamentary dispositions . |
| 13 | It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care . |
| 14 | ‘ It is hard to believe that it could come in the Grand National , ’ Gaselee said . |
| 15 | It could come in the wastes of the night , or at the most humdrum moments of the day . |