Example sentences of "it could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I feel it could grow on me , and I like it . |
| 2 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 3 | ‘ If a bed is in 365 days a year use , it could last for three years or maybe more , ’ says John Mott of supplier Airsprung Furniture . |
| 4 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 5 | We were also aware that ‘ TTT ’ began to be in danger of becoming yet another over-used and under-defined primary slogan and all kinds of claims were being made for its educational efficacy for children simply because of the novelty , stimulus and enjoyment which it could give to their teachers . |
| 6 | Possibly the greatest fear one might have is that , because the lesson is relatively unstructured , it could grind to a halt . |
| 7 | Westland claimed it could rely upon the arbitral clause within the contract to bring an action for breach of contract against both the Organisation and the member States . |
| 8 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 9 | There are hopes that the aircraft may receive a reprieve so that it could perform during the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF in April next year . |
| 10 | It would be nice if you could leave the fax modem in Auto-answer mode and it could distinguish between a fax machine or another modem that was calling it , and act appropriately . |
| 11 | The next day the sun woke them early , beating down from a clear sky , baking those tiles it could reach on the terrace so that the children hopped over them , nimble as cats on hot bricks . |
| 12 | The Midland might have persevered with Crocker , but by then the bank had been so bruised by its American adventure that it could think of nothing but leaving . |
| 13 | The US State Department 's response was that it needed to see the blueprints on European defence before it could think of pouring concrete . |
| 14 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 15 | The trick was then to get the newly-formed zygote back into the mother so it could attach to the inside of the womb and develop normally . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , you can choose any decimal , it does n't have to even start with numbers , cos it could start with zero , it does n't , does n't have , does n't have , it does n't have to be bigger than one , it can be smaller than one . |
| 17 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 18 | I would like readers to know just how serious the threat from opencast mining is , what it could mean to the landscape , nature and communities of the Gwendraeth , and what they can do to help prevent it . |
| 19 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 20 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 21 | Er yeah exclude your short story , otherwise it could mean on you know it could be taken out and sold somewhere and then in interest you would sell your own for selling your own word you know that could be a possibility . |
| 22 | It decided that it could benefit from a smart up to date information section for liaison with press and public . |
| 23 | It seems likely , however , that the low prevalence among children is largely a consequence of inability to ascertain pre-onset cases , while among parents it could stem from the effect of Crohn 's disease on marital relationships with reduced fertility , either through complications of the disease in women or reversible azoospermia during sulphasalazine treatment in men . |
| 24 | The information retrieval section needed to check facts with the IPG about the position of claimants so that it could feed into the debates about take-up campaigns and potential losers . |
| 25 | If Division B could not sell all it could make at £120 , it would reject other sales once the price had dropped to just less than £90 . |
| 26 | A 20th century factory , in spite of those dates , it could make between £20 and £25 at auction if it is in good condition . |
| 27 | As part of the process , the BBC also commissioned a confidential report to show how much it could make from broadcasting commercials to supplement the licence fee . |
| 28 | Given the fact that another property developer , and star of the bull market of the Nineties Mountleigh , had gone into receivership and that administrators have been appointed to the Canary Wharf project it could rank as one of the understatements of the 1992 financial year . |
| 29 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 30 | Thousands of people will be on the water this bank holiday weekend — but for some it could end in tragedy . |