Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bockelie ( 1973 ) , also working with cryptic argillaceous limestones , demonstrated how effectively a simpler technique combining light acid etching with photography using orthochromatic film could enhance fabric contrast and reveal burrow patterns . |
| 2 | Interleukin 2 ( IL2 ) activated effector cells could enhance ADCC activity , but interferon-γ ( IFN-γ ) or tumour necrosis factor-α ( TNF-α ) had no effect on the cytotoxic activity of effector cells . |
| 3 | The authorities could restrict hire purchase credit by specifying minimum deposits or maximum repayment periods . |
| 4 | Smoking could affect gall bladder pathophysiology — for example , by stimulating mucin secretion and thus promoting cholesterol monohydrate nucleation — a critical step in gall stone formation . |
| 5 | The brokers are concerned about those trusts that seek high yields from their portfolios , as this could affect capital performance . |
| 6 | TELECOM EIREANN ISSUE COULD AFFECT COALITION GOVERNMENT |
| 7 | Xerox Corp says scientists at its Palo Alto Research Center have developed two flat-screen active matrix liquid crystal diode displays that offer image quality similar to a laser-printed document : the colour and black-and-white displays were originally designed for Xerox research and development and are not available as commercial products yet , but applications could affect office automation , desktop publishing , and engineering workstations , the company suggested . |
| 8 | If the recipient acted true to type , a sense of obligation could affect voting behaviour many years after the favour had been conferred . |
| 9 | Harry , as he was known , left the local school at thirteen to become a gardener like his father , but , from the time he was seven , there had been a golf-links at Grouville , and the local lads could earn pocket money as caddies . |
| 10 | The universities could coordinate distance learning packages for their graduates in various hospitals , although this would have funding and manpower implications . |
| 11 | Alternative sources of information were investigated , with the aim of discovering additional information which could aid error detection , correction and even recognition . |
| 12 | Modifications to the waveguide that could influence biosurface immunoefficiency are listed . |
| 13 | In addition , studies in children and in adults with acute diarrhoea have reported a shift to comparatively more aerobic faecal flora , which could influence SCFA growth in the colon . |
| 14 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 15 | Now if I were to mix some of that with another substance I could make printing ink . |
| 16 | Several NATO representatives suggested that " NATO could lend material support or even troops to the CSCE if needed and if agreed by our member countries " , in the words of the Dutch Foreign Minister , Hans van den Broek . |
| 17 | One might offer the following reason why one could regard apine dance as having communicative significance lacking in the case of the bruise ; that the dance is a somehow ‘ arbitrary ’ or ‘ rule-governed ’ causal product of the sighting of food . |
| 18 | Chris Nixon said that he could not envisage the school buying college time unless the college could buy school time . |
| 19 | Next door to that I could buy carrot cake ice-cream . |
| 20 | You could consider donor insemination ( see below ) . |
| 21 | Related uses for pagers could include motorway service stations or perhaps breweries . |
| 22 | Measures could include land consolidation , drainage and others . |
| 23 | This could include word processing , a database , case management and optical character recognition . |
| 24 | The identity of presynaptic targets for NO , which could include guanylate cyclase and ADP ribosyltransferase , have not been determined . |
| 25 | They could include Home Corner equipment , pictures from magazines or objects from a furnished doll 's house . |
| 26 | If this file had been saved ( in plain text format ) as " predir " , you could initiate printer output redirection by issuing the command from the filter ( ) , or in the immediate mode from within BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 27 | Terms like ‘ stimulus categorization ’ have to be used , because we do n't have any other language in which to describe what parts of the brain do , but a term like this should be taken as a shorthand for ‘ neural processes that could mediate stimulus categorization , whatever they may be ’ , rather than a conclusive statement about what an area does . |
| 28 | The structure of the complex also shows evidence for recognition by the repressor of sequence-dependent distortions or flexibility of the phosphodiester backbone , which could mediate sequence specificity where the base pairs themselves are inaccessible . |
| 29 | Mr Heseltine has long advocated an extension of such agencies to other British regions , and Sir Geoffrey 's new-found support could signal Cabinet debate on industrial policy — an issue which has been omitted from this week 's conference agenda . |
| 30 | The jokes/anecdotes/stories can be short or long and , as an example , I will tell the tale of a branch who loaned a customer a sum of money so he could undergo plastic surgery . |