Example sentences of "it could [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McFall held up a penknife with a three-inch blade and said it could exact terrible injuries and that post-mortem examinations last year at the department of forensic medicine and science at Glasgow University showed that in 18 out of 31 stabbings , the wound was three inches or less . |
| 2 | The ten-foot-long cylindrical plastic balloon rises as trapped air is heated by the sun , and according to the blurb on its packaging , it could reach extraordinary altitudes ’ up to 30,000 feet if inadvertently released . |
| 3 | It could fit mains-powered alarms , but that would mean putting up rents . |
| 4 | At worst it could mean many months in hospital . |
| 5 | However , it could dictate public perceptions of the parties ' agenda . |
| 6 | But there are fears in some quarters that it could infringe personal liberties . |
| 7 | The implication for the Archive is that it could make sound assumptions about it 's users ’ skills . |
| 8 | This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients . |
| 9 | It could encompass all members of the double-reed family , from treble to bass ; in addition it was often used in a general sense , simply to indicate an ensemble of woodwind instruments , but not necessarily any specific ones . |
| 10 | He says it could cost some pensioners as much as £25 a week and is urging the council to think again . |
| 11 | It could present some publishers with problems but a useful ordering tip is to hold back your order until you have seen several ranges . |
| 12 | The Huyghes immediately announced they were bringing charges on two counts because the communiqué constituted a violation of professional secrecy and because it could influence legal investigations . |
| 13 | It could influence individual fortunes directly as well as having more pervasive consequences for the economy as a whole . |
| 14 | The legislation is not only unnecessary but it is , it could set industrial relations back years in this country . |
| 15 | Now it could fetch many times this amount when it 's auctioned . |
| 16 | While not relaxing our critical standards and emphasis on observational success , it could open fresh possibilities . |
| 17 | His son , seeking to staunch the outflow of money on the Scottish war , quickly arranged a truce , but it could offer few hopes of long-term disengagement . |
| 18 | Ed Zschau , chief executive of IBM Corp 's AdStar subsidiary , says the company plans to become known as a consumer products company as well as the leader in commercial storage products , and would pursue all of the market opportunities in which it could offer unique products ; he says AdStar aims to become the lowest cost producer in the industry , taking advantage of its technology , scale and commitment to quality ; speaking at the product launch in San Jose , he said that AdStar would also become known , more than it is today , as a software company ; it expects to have personal computer-oriented products in the retail market before the end of the year . |
| 19 | The Turkish parliament on Aug. 12 voted by 216 to 151 to give the government war powers if necessary , specifying that if Iraq attacked Turkish territory it could send Turkish troops into combat and also allow foreign forces to be deployed on Turkish soil . |
| 20 | In the late 19th century , besides the usual rural trades , it could boast ten grocers and drapers , eight tailors , a tea vendor and 14 dressmakers . |
| 21 | This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical ; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies . |
| 22 | Nationalist sympathisers such as Robin Angus of stockbroker County NatWest WoodMac , say it could bring new opportunities through the creation of a more flexible tax structure . |
| 23 | However attractive the idea of a director general sounds , it could create more problems than it would solve |
| 24 | It could cause further delays to the scheme , which has been fiercely opposed in Kent . |
| 25 | The half life of the parietal cell is 23 days in rats and presumably much longer in man and therefore it could take many months for resoluion of an increased parietal cell mass . |
| 26 | It could take fourteen weeks to complete the gruelling journey on foot from London to Rome in the Middle Ages . |
| 27 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
| 28 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 29 | Once upon a time it could take several hours to install a network interface card . |
| 30 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |