Example sentences of "it could [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westland claimed it could rely upon the arbitral clause within the contract to bring an action for breach of contract against both the Organisation and the member States . |
| 2 | There are hopes that the aircraft may receive a reprieve so that it could perform during the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF in April next year . |
| 3 | The next day the sun woke them early , beating down from a clear sky , baking those tiles it could reach on the terrace so that the children hopped over them , nimble as cats on hot bricks . |
| 4 | The trick was then to get the newly-formed zygote back into the mother so it could attach to the inside of the womb and develop normally . ’ |
| 5 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 6 | I would like readers to know just how serious the threat from opencast mining is , what it could mean to the landscape , nature and communities of the Gwendraeth , and what they can do to help prevent it . |
| 7 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 8 | It seems likely , however , that the low prevalence among children is largely a consequence of inability to ascertain pre-onset cases , while among parents it could stem from the effect of Crohn 's disease on marital relationships with reduced fertility , either through complications of the disease in women or reversible azoospermia during sulphasalazine treatment in men . |
| 9 | The information retrieval section needed to check facts with the IPG about the position of claimants so that it could feed into the debates about take-up campaigns and potential losers . |
| 10 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 13 | It 's analysis of the egos as , as we 've been seeing , in analysis was really all , all it could do at the beginning , after the First World War , shall we say . |
| 14 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 15 | Coleman knew the power it could exercise behind the scenes , and went on hoping through the summer of 1990 that Control would somehow find the right strings to pull . |
| 16 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 17 | Typical of the government 's hypocrisy , in Pink 's view , that it could bleat about the failure of exporters while at the same time putting every sort of obstacle in their path . |
| 18 | It could lead to the poor of the world conceiving children and selling the foetuses to help the rich . |
| 19 | It could lead to the dilution and fragmentation of the strengths and skills of the primary health care team . |
| 20 | Just how the wave crosses the gap junction is unknown , but it could depend upon the diffusion of either calcium itself or InsP 3 . |
| 21 | It could evolve as the necessary cost of processes beneficial to youth , or could instead be purely maladaptive , and evolve because of the pressure of deleterious mutations on populations . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Harris reports that UPS is already following this policy in Germany , and says it could spread to the U.K. The German vans use off-the-shelf diesel engines and gearboxes . |
| 25 | I was told that it could spread through the intestines to the stomach and lungs and then you had pretty much had it . |
| 26 | ‘ We could play the US again tonight , it could go along the same pattern and we would end up winning 4–2 or 5–2 because of the chances we created . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And I do n't think there is any realistic way in which it could cope with the flows of a fourteen hundred dwelling new settlement . |
| 29 | It could bind to the viral RNA ( Figure 21 ) , preventing it from being copied into the double-stranded DNA which later integrates into the host chromosomes . |
| 30 | Secondly , it could bind to the DNA copy of the viral RNA . |