Example sentences of "that could [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business Technology : Treating Aids with a trick gene Christine McGourty looks at long-term therapy that could prevent the HIV virus reproducing |
| 2 | She also outlined another misconception that could explain the suspicion research nurses often encounter among other nurses . |
| 3 | Clinical findings of disabling cognitive and/or motor dysfunction interfering with occupation or activities of daily living , or loss of behavioural developmental milestones in a child , progressing over weeks to months , in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings . |
| 4 | Findings profound involuntary weight loss ( more than 10% of baseline body weight ) plus other chronic diarrhoea ( lasting > 1 month ) in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings ( e.g. cancer , tuberculosis , cryptosporidiosis or other specific enteritis ) . |
| 5 | If being Maori were a significant variable this might arise because of an inherent effect of being Maori or because there are other confounding variables that have not been considered that could explain the difference between Maori and non-Maori children . |
| 6 | Histological investigation of the intestine did not show any morphological features that could explain the physiological observations . |
| 7 | In a histological investigation of the intestine we were unable to show any morphological changes that could explain the physiological observations . |
| 8 | We have something that could enrich the quality of your life for many years to come … |
| 9 | Six months ago six major E C Health and Safety Directives came into effect covering workplace safety , machinery , protective equipment , manual handling , work with computers and word processors , they 've built on a framework directive giving workers new rights to consultation and the right to stop the job and the union has been watching the government and the H S E and me as well , in their attempts to water down the requirements of these directives and we might well lodge a formal complaint with Brussels that could land the Tories in Europe 's Court of Justice . |
| 10 | For Televisa that could mean the end of a luxurious fiesta . |
| 11 | It features main bearing caps that do n't have to be individually matched to the block — something that could make the production process of any engine much easier . |
| 12 | The cattle that survived this vicious circle of pasture depletion were no doubt those that could make the most of small areas of rough grazing and it is likely that small , thrifty cattle were positively selected in preference to larger improved types which needed better feeding . |
| 13 | This is the kind of stipulation that could make the job of deciding on ‘ satisfactory ’ levels of noise in what is left of industrial Britain a lot easier . |
| 14 | In the case of steerable kites , skill of the operator is paramount ; but anything that could make the kite fly to a tighter turning radius , open its radius of action in the ‘ wind window ’ or launch and land more easily was a critical element . |
| 15 | Japanese computers use the QWERTY keyboard to input Japanese to the system : this appears as the kana syllabary on the screen , and then by various methods ( such as pressing the space bar ) a list of possible kanji ideograms that could represent the kana text is displayed for selection . |
| 16 | Katz and Fodor [ 1963 ] proposed that there was a universal set of markers that could represent the meaning of words from every possible language . |
| 17 | Green-eyed , bemasked , conjuring up the ten-foot plus boards that could conquer the peaks of Waimea , Ken Bradshaw reminded me of Dr Rotwang in Metropolis instilling his robot with beauty and life . |
| 18 | City have won twice on the trot away from home — scoring six goals in the process — and have talent that could flatten the party like a ton of bricks . |
| 19 | Even his cynicism could n't destroy the kind of male magnetism that could draw the innocent female into its web . |
| 20 | Think of the cataclysmic consequences that could befall the nation if some ruthless Norwegian baker tried to foist fresh bread on people on the weekend . |
| 21 | Stephen Gray , senior associate of the APP Partnership , the firm of architects behind the Cornmill , said : ‘ We had to avoid vibrations which would turn the beer cloudy potentially the biggest disaster that could befall the town . |
| 22 | And soon , so the official who interviewed me said , it would be a passport of the full community ; it would be a key that could unlock the gates of Paris , Rome , of London , even . |
| 23 | He predicted that up to 2,000 schools would vote to join the 200 that had already chosen to run their own affairs — a development that could spell the end of council involvement in education . |
| 24 | Microsoft Corp is trying to bring Windows and DOS together in ‘ Chicago , ’ the code name of the project that could spell the end of MS-DOS as we know it . |
| 25 | If we had some method a l a laser of some kind that could measure the degree of pain that Mrs A is supposed to be suffering , it would it 'd solve a lot of problems . |
| 26 | By July 1981 , physicists and engineers at CERN had succeeded in building a suitable source of antiprotons that could feed the SPS . |
| 27 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 28 | Also , there is no portable submersible rotary corer that could do the job . |
| 29 | He wanted to find a readily available synthetic polymer that could do the job . |
| 30 | Not only were there numerous deep recessions , but by the end of the century it was discovered foreign iron ore was of a higher quality , and although the MSG works did smelt imports from Spain , Russia and Chile , it was furnaces in ports that could do the cheapest . |