Example sentences of "it could [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the elephant is not a predator , it could easily damage the nest , and it must somehow be persuaded to take another route . |
| 2 | It could even melt the plastic yes . |
| 3 | It could even beat the £35,000 top price paid by Linfield to Shelbourne for striker Gary Haylock this summer . |
| 4 | Indeed , it could even serve the purpose of filling quarry sites and aid landscaping . |
| 5 | When we started the Eurofighter programme , we did look at the possibility of expanding N A M A so that it could also conduct the management of the the Eurofighter project . |
| 6 | With a slight change of wording it could also serve the same purpose for an individual , but its use as part of staff appraisal is not considered here . |
| 7 | It could also stop the central government from imposing half-baked measures in the guise of reform , which is largely what has been happening until now . |
| 8 | But it could also mean the even more staggering truth that the saints are God 's inheritance , and pose the question to what extent he-is allowed the freehold of that inheritance which is our lives . |
| 9 | Most obviously it means that the ‘ birds ’ sang at a previous moment in time but it could also mean the time of year , the time of the poet 's life , and most strikingly , it could be another word connected with death . |
| 10 | Arsenal 's Alan Smith looks most threatened by Hateley 's return , but it could also unsettle the youngsters fighting to succeed Gary Lineker , including Alan Shearer , David Hirst , Paul Merson and Nigel Clough . |
| 11 | It could also have the effect of suggesting to girls that activities society regards as ‘ male ’ are pleasurable and rewarding , and therefore encourage them to stay with the male-dominated subjects — science , technology and mathematics throughout secondary schooling . |
| 12 | But it could also operate the other way round . |
| 13 | It could also turn the spotlight unfavourably on the assertive Mrs Clinton , who has herself become a ‘ campaign issue ’ . |
| 14 | It could also explore the circumstances under which people get into difficulties over credit use , and ways of eliminating them . |
| 15 | It could also reduce the danger inherent in single-issue campaigns . |
| 16 | The court said that it could not tell the Chief Constable how he should respond to the situation as it could not judge the explosiveness of the situation at the time . |
| 17 | The hard-nosed bullet struck home into the bull 's chest , wounding it fatally , but it could not stop the lunging charge nor ward off the twin crescents of bone thrust upwards into his body with all the force of the seladang 's powerful neck . |
| 18 | A task force within BCCI was set up to investigate : on the basis of its report , PW told the BCCI directors that it could not sign the 1989 accounts because of a number of uncertainties , including increasing CCAH loans , an exposure of $700m to the Gulf Group , and ‘ certain accounting transactions principally booked in Cayman and other offshore centres ’ that ‘ have been either false or deceitful ’ . |
| 19 | It could not explain the most prominent feature of adjudication in hard cases like our samples : the constant and relentless concern judges show for explicating the " true " force of a statute or precedent decision when that force is problematical . |
| 20 | It could not tolerate the possibility , in the years 1953–6 , of Jordan and the accommodationist wing of the PLO negotiating a separate peace agreement , since this was bound to weaken its own regional position and destroy its primacy in the Arab struggle against Israel . |
| 21 | The magazine found that it could not justify the Crozier allegations which it had published , and agreed to apologise , pay damages and make a statement in open court publicly retracting the libel . |
| 22 | Yet , while it could play down the challenge of British fascism it could not ignore the threat of European fascism . |
| 23 | The Government could have ignored the outcry from the unions and Labour but it could not ignore the unexpected media attack . |
| 24 | However , where , as in the present case , there is an injunction in force , it seems to me that Mr. Langley and Mr. Philipson are right in saying that it is open to the court to consider the issue of validity , since , if the notice were indeed invalid , it could not override the injunction or give grounds for a variation . |
| 25 | The Labour Party had traditionally concentrated on " gas and water " socialism , but it could not avoid the revision of its foreign policy which events made necessary . |
| 26 | One reason for the codification , however , was a fear that the case law was becoming excessively rigid ; another , that it could not bear the weight of what , by the mid-nineteenth century , was a widespread abuse of the bill of exchange ( notably , through the use of accommodation paper ) . |
| 27 | It could not bear the bright inspection of another 's sorrow . |
| 28 | Either it would not or it could not observe the policy . |
| 29 | Curran is convinced that it produced a ‘ muted radicalism ’ but it would be equally justified to claim that the Mirror had to change because it could not portray the 1950s and 1960s in the language or imagery of the 1940s . |
| 30 | It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence . |