Example sentences of "it could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beveridge , however , studied the German experiment more closely during the next year and concluded that the contributory insurance principle could not only reduce costs ; it could also eliminate reliance on means tests . ’ |
| 2 | It could also involve talks to youth groups and others by both players and staff . |
| 3 | But it is also beginning to realise that , unless it is careful , it could also face opposition from more unexpected quarters . |
| 4 | It could also make loops , which , although they could be sewn in during making up , would spoil the smoothness of the work which is the main purpose of partial knitting . |
| 5 | It could also make process of up-dating too demanding to sustain . |
| 6 | It could also carry pollution monitors , crop sprayers or telecommunications equipment . |
| 7 | It could also throw light on the process by which they trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 8 | While it might be used by management to deploy resources more effectively , it could also give opportunities for diversions from tedious duty — for example , by allowing outside officers to join in dramas outside their own subdivisions . |
| 9 | City dwellers , they knew that curiosity did n't only kill the cat like the old proverb said , it could also kill people ! |
| 10 | It was , therefore , given wide powers of managing and disposing of land ; but it could also develop land itself . |
| 11 | It could also house hay ( cut grass ) and threshed straw . |
| 12 | Rosehaugh Stanhope , developer of Broadgate in the City , said it could house all those affected , and Olympia and York , developer of Canary Wharf , said it could also provide space . |
| 13 | It could also get £140,000 in grants and investment from the council and the local equivalent of GLEB if it moved north . |
| 14 | This service is intended for people who are hard of hearing but it could also help language learners follow the programme . ) |
| 15 | It could also cause liver and kidney malfunction and attack the central nervous system . |
| 16 | Similarly , the value of a reinvestigation could be weakened if , instead of co-operating , the suspect leaves his explanation for the trial , when not only can it not be investigated but when it could also cast doubt on the value of any re-investigation that has taken place . |
| 17 | It could also include interests and hobbies . |
| 18 | It could also include Hungary , Czechoslovakia and possibly others — at least as associates if not yet as full members . |
| 19 | It could also find applications in coal mining , geothermal wells , and for pipe conduits under roads , where it is not practical to drill straight down . |
| 20 | Their attempt to cause trouble is not only a sign of division within the party ; it could also pose problems for Solidarity . |
| 21 | The NCDAD did not operate in Scotland , and it could not award degrees — working , as the NCTA had done , on the basis of a Deed of Trust , not a Charter . |
| 22 | It could not prevent conflict and the outbreak of armed clashes between England and France , but it meant that considerable efforts were made , on both sides , to avert disputes or to seek a speedy reconciliation . |
| 23 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 24 | Sainsbury 's felt it could not justify investment at either of these locations and instead surprised everyone by buying land at Parc Menai which has already got planning consent for a hotel and conference centre . |
| 25 | Britain was granted a specially lenient deal because Environment Minister Lord Caithness argued that it could not fit FGD in the required timescale , and that it had domestic high sulphur coal which it ‘ had to use ’ whereas other countries relied mainly on imported low sulphur coal . |
| 26 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 27 | It could not require installation of control devices on vehicles sold in the county until a satisfactory device was available — and no such device was available . |
| 28 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 29 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 30 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |