Example sentences of "could [vb infin] within [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daresbury 's work for industry , which amounts to only 5 per cent of its activities , could double within a year , Professor Leadbetter said . |
| 2 | It is doubtful whether in either of these situations the action taken is primarily concerned with punishment ; but the first example could fall within the definition of corporal punishment in the Act , which requires the action to have been taken wholly or partly for the purposes of punishment . |
| 3 | A novel or a film which merely alludes to a crime committed by the author or subject could fall within the scope of ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation and there will be considerable room for debate as to whether ‘ a piece of art , a musical composition , or a poem is an expression of the criminal 's thoughts or feelings about his crime . ’ |
| 4 | The Irish Prime Minister , Charles Haughey , could resign within the next two weeks according to Fianna Fail party sources . |
| 5 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 6 | This would allow them to ‘ demonstrate the high standards of training which they could achieve within the framework of their own individual organisations ’ . |
| 7 | I should be more encouraged if I could identify within the Labour party a consensus for the preservation of the Union . |
| 8 | At that time there was effectively two values for the dollar ; one for the value of goods that it could purchase within the coastal boundaries of the U.S.A. , and another in the International Monetary System , amounting to about half its internal purchasing power . |
| 9 | Streat asked MacArthur for his views on trade with China to which the general replied that an increase in trade between Japan and mainland China would not occur immediately but that he was convinced that this could occur within the next four or five years . |
| 10 | Local conditions must go a long way to explaining why some villages were vulnerable to enclosure and others were not , and these variations could occur within the limits of a single shire . |
| 11 | Under the then prevailing adjustable peg arrangements , any one currency could fluctuate within a band ( or ‘ tunnel ’ ) 1 per cent either side of the dollar par value , so if one EC currency moved from its floor to its ceiling and another moved from its ceiling to its floor there would be a 4 per cent relative fluctuation in the values of the two currencies . |
| 12 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 13 | Where they did not , different rules could apply within the EC and EFTA . |
| 14 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 15 | Now however , they will be prepared to let the tribunal decide if they sign a player out of contract — and that could happen within the next few weeks . |
| 16 | Cyclone now have approval to rebuild and service the aircraft and Bill Sherlock is strongly optimistic that full-scale production could resume within the next few months . |
| 17 | This control was vitally necessary if there could develop within the human race an area of activity which would provide far wider and ultimately greater satisfactions and happiness than could be obtained from purely physical gratifications . |
| 18 | With effect from March 7 , small businesses with up to 20 staff could operate within a largely free-enterprise regime , precise rules for which were to be formulated by a new National Committee for Small Enterprises . |
| 19 | The joint Franco-German brigade ( which started operations in October 1990 — see p. 38507 ) would be the core of a future European defence force , reportedly numbering up to 100,000 , which could operate within the NATO arena . |
| 20 | General discussion then took place on possible work which the Council members could arrange within the parishes . |
| 21 | And last night the council gave its approval , building work could start within the next few months . |
| 22 | Balcha entered Harar and his troops massacred such Muslims as they could find within the walls . |
| 23 | When replacements are nested , a particular instance of a context could lie within the scope of several context-tables : this is a similar situation to nested variable declarations in a block-structured programming language , and similar rules apply , i.e. the most closely encompassing declaration takes precedence . |