Example sentences of "which could [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in his novel First Men in the Moon ( 1901 ) , HG Wells fantasized about a substance called cavorite , which could shield a spacecraft from the pull of gravity , thus allowing its propulsion units to work very much more efficiently ! |
| 2 | However , sources say it is more than possible they will face an internal disciplinary hearing which could carry a penalty as severe as dismissal from the force . |
| 3 | Organisers boasted of a technically unsurpassed ‘ compact ’ Games which could make a profit of £65 million . |
| 4 | What made it all so difficult was that , though practically no one had had a good word to say for Hereward , no one could or would pin down that dislike into a form which could prime a hatred violent enough to kill him . |
| 5 | For the variety of medicines now available to the doctor allow him to relieve the pain , distress , or even agony which could prompt a consideration of euthanasia . |
| 6 | Fears deepened yesterday that the West German Bundesbank might lift its key lending rates by as much as one full point — a move which could prompt a rise in UK base rates , now 14 per cent . |
| 7 | A BUS company is anxiously waiting to hear if a Government minister will break the deadlock over a deal which could bring a Sainsbury superstore to Darlington . |
| 8 | The council is now carrying out a work study which could bring a shake-up that will end Derek 's golden days . |
| 9 | Repeatedly in her work she offers examples of marriages which could bring a woman some kind of satisfaction . |
| 10 | At this stage , a benefits checking service might reveal unclaimed benefits such as attendance allowance , which could attract a £33.70 severe disability premium . |
| 11 | Initially , the doctors were not sure whether Dawn had suffered brain damage , so they arranged for Dawn to be transferred , still on the life-support machine , to a nearby hospital which could perform a CAT scan . |
| 12 | Lord Tucker observed : ‘ I do not question that such a drastic step [ closure of the factory ] … may be required on the part of a reasonably prudent employer if the peril to his employees is sufficiently grave , and to this extent it must always be a question of degree , but , in my view , there was no evidence in the present case which could justify a finding of negligence for failure on the part of the respondents to take this step . ’ |
| 13 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 14 | Translated into seats , the result of the Norris poll shows that the Tories will be unopposed in the Commons throughout the next Parliament with a working majority of 650 , though psephologists may quibble about the low sample size — 30 — which could give a margin of error of about minus 60 per cent . |
| 15 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 16 | Spare capacity would be resold to other British Telecom units , which could offer a variety of services over the network . |
| 17 | Japan was a country which had achieved ‘ modernization ’ , which could offer a model to other industrializing nations ; the militarism and aggression of the 1930s was an aberration , explicable largely in political terms , the ability of a small group to turn back the liberal trends of the twenties . |
| 18 | It had been a deeply held tenet of Kuwaiti foreign policy that the military presence of one superpower in the Gulf will lead to the presence of the other as well , which could threaten a conflict between them injurious to all the Gulf states . |
| 19 | What struck me , however , was how distant the preoccupations of the audience were from those which could capture a majority in modern Britain , or could govern it successfully if that majority were ever won . |
| 20 | Even though I now encourage my class to use any methods they like , there are still times when I wished I had not said something which could inhibit a pupil 's thinking . |
| 21 | The colour of the duns varies from dark to silvery pale dun , and in fact is dun rather than red which is the common recessive in the breed and which could suggest a link with Scandinavia , where dun was a common colour . |
| 22 | For Fe the valence levels would include the 3d , 4s and 4p subshells , which could hold a total of 18 electrons if filled . |
| 23 | A major review of the business operation ( a meta-procedure ? ) , which could comprise a series of nested procedures , will require commitment at all levels . |
| 24 | ‘ Each ticket purchased for the ball will help Childline cover costs to provide half-an-hour 's counselling for 10 children — half-an-hour which could change a child 's life . ’ |
| 25 | Curiously , it 's an executable file and not a device driver , so it can only be initially loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT , which could permit a virus to go into memory before Virus Guard is loaded . |
| 26 | Personally , I have a basic level of awareness which I raise if I find myself in a place or situation which could prove a problem . |
| 27 | Some of the more advanced authorities have already developed a career structure for care managers — a model which could prove a pointer for the rest of the country . |
| 28 | New plans have been announced which could expand a stretch of the M-twenty-five between the M-four and M-three to seven lanes in each direction . |
| 29 | The previous paragraph assumes the existence of a decoding device in the cell , able to translate particular triplets into particular amino acids : such a decoding device is analogous to a machine which could receive a message in Morse code ( corresponding to the base sequence in DNA ) and produce a version written in the roman alphabet ( corresponding to the amino acid sequence of the protein ) . |
| 30 | Legal moves turn up heat on Timex strike James Rougvie reports on action which could push a Dundee dispute into the political arena |