Example sentences of "it could [vb infin] [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 | However , it could dictate public perceptions of the parties ' agenda . |
| 5 | But there are fears in some quarters that it could infringe personal liberties . |
| 6 | The implication for the Archive is that it could make sound assumptions about it 's users ’ skills . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could influence individual fortunes directly as well as having more pervasive consequences for the economy as a whole . |
| 9 | The legislation is not only unnecessary but it is , it could set industrial relations back years in this country . |
| 10 | While not relaxing our critical standards and emphasis on observational success , it could open fresh possibilities . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical ; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call . |
| 16 | It could prompt a big swing to the Socialists in the second round or it could push left-wing voters to give up altogether . |
| 17 | Mr Stewart said events like Europartenariat — a European Community initiative aimed at bringing together over 1,000 companies to form trading links — were important as it could help Scottish companies implement their European strategies by meeting potential business partners . |
| 18 | Not only will the material have uses in banks , prisons , security vehicles etc , but it could provide unbreakable windows for ordinary cars to prevent break-ins without increasing the weight of the car . |
| 19 | It could have important implications for American efforts to arrest drug dealers , terrorists and the Panamanian leader , Manuel Noriega , for prosecution in the US . |
| 20 | Were such a fluctuation to take place now , it could have disastrous consequences for agriculture and economies across the world . |
| 21 | It could have unfortunate consequences . |
| 22 | Because most of the oil was dispersed to below the surface , it would enter the marine food chain ; and because the oil was easily ingested , it could have damaging effects on birds and animals in the long term . |
| 23 | The local doctors believed that when undertaken by the child 's mother it could have positive effects but fundamentalists like the magistrate insisted that any such teaching was morally wrong . |
| 24 | It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised . |
| 25 | What had all this got to do with the cruel terrors of Spiderglass that kept Mars-U as a garden of torture ( she could n't even think of the garden-master ; somehow he just kind of disappeared from her mind ) so it could pluck poor students into its web of inhumanity ? |
| 26 | Applied retrospectively , some reckoned , it could increase pension-fund liabilities by up to £50 billion ( $15 billion ) in Britain , and nearly as much in the rest of Europe . |
| 27 | Shareholders have recently agreed to extend its borrowing powers , so , in theory , it could raise sufficient funds to bid for virtually any quoted company : only one of two of Britain 's very largest companies — like BP and British Telecom — are beyond Hanson 's grasp . |
| 28 | Maddox reversed into a quoted company as soon as it was formed in February 1992 , Biermann stated , because he wanted to take advantage of the public market for acquisition purposes — it could issue new shares rather than having to find cash . |