Example sentences of "and could [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written by young(ish) black author Victor Headley , it 's a fast-paced tale of cocaine gangs , guns and revenge set in London 's Harlesden and Hackney , and could repeat the success of Richard Skinhead Allen 's legendary novels . |
| 2 | His hands were much better and could grip the steering wheel without pain . |
| 3 | Any witness who saw the incident and could identify the accused could prove this point . |
| 4 | Maybe because she saw the killing and could identify the man who did it . |
| 5 | And of course there 's the fact that any statements I make about general business confidence are price sensitive and could knock the share price . ’ |
| 6 | Before 1988 , people facing deportation could have appealed to an ‘ independent Adjudicator ’ or an Immigration Officer who would have looked into their cases , including any compassionate circumstances , and could stop the Home Office from deporting them . |
| 7 | That will mean a four-fold rise in the cost of new exploration wells to companies which have interests in existing oilfields and could stop the practice of stakes in older oilfields being bought as a tax shelter by smaller independent oil companies wanting to financing exploration plans . |
| 8 | There 's the lack of national political debate which raise the tough , awkward questions that will act as restraints upon those controlling the conflict , and could set the tone for the longer- run peace . |
| 9 | In a move which pension fund managers describe as ‘ pension fund taxation by the back door ’ , the decision to cut from 25 to 20 per cent the tax credit that can be reclaimed on dividends , has reduced the yield on the FT All-Share Index from 4.1 per cent to 3.9 per cent and could cost the funds £1 billion a year . |
| 10 | The sunburn redness may not reveal itself until later in the day and by that time , the damage will be done and could ruin the rest of your stay . |
| 11 | The Microprocessor Report suspects that Hummingbird may be aimed at MPEG full-motion video/audio applications and could eliminate the need for a separate MPEG chip . |
| 12 | These people had been highly politicised during the ‘ ten years of chaos ’ and could infect the younger generation , already causing some problems , with their negative attitudes and ideas . |
| 13 | The low-cost 7100LC version of the Precision Architecture RISC that Hewlett-Packard Co is developing is generating growing excitement , and could give the company a significant edge in winning space on the desktop of the future . |
| 14 | The pattern generated by co-operative behaviour could distinguish one social group from another and could mean the difference between group survival and communal death … |
| 15 | If all councillors became full-time politicians then this would restrict the range of people coming forward for election and could alter the balance of the relationship between them and the officers of the council . |
| 16 | Occasionally this contrivance could overshadow the less congenial reality which lay behind it and could override the more mundane , everyday exploitation of work on the land , but this , given the conditions under which farm workers lived and worked , was only sporadically successful . |
| 17 | It must be assumed that people who test antibody positive , still have HIV infection , are infectious and could pass the virus on to others . |
| 18 | This latter would be handed a bus pass and a deck chair , and could pass the time wondering to their hearts ' content why the hell they were there . |
| 19 | He would not , in fact , feel anything special as he reached the critical radius , and could pass the point of no return without noticing it . |
| 20 | Scum fans are getting to cocky , unfortunatly I have a few friends and relatives who have not yet seen the light , They think they are unbeatable at the moment and could do the domestic treble . |
| 21 | She was still positioned over the table , and could feel the full weight of his body stretched over her back . |
| 22 | Any discovery which later may threaten it is rejected by one 's mental defences and could upset the balance of the mind . |
| 23 | Advantages : less money was tied up in machinery ; newer machinery did the job better and more quickly ; those hiring out machinery generated more income to the farm and could justify the expense of new machines ; there was employment for farmers ' sons in home locality . |
| 24 | These could be most advantageous to both parties and could facilitate the recruitment of church musicians at an early age . |
| 25 | The latter are smaller and lower and could bear the weight of a tall spire as at Salisbury ( 450 ) . |
| 26 | The impact of this approach on physical geography can be attributed to the ways in which these four types of system could rationalize physical geography endeavour , and could catalyse the introduction of new concepts especially concerned with temporal change . |
| 27 | Mr Chapman is expecting to publish around 25 books in the first year , and could float the company within five years . |
| 28 | Alice would have an action for breach of contract against the retailer and could utilise the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , ss. 14(2) and 14(3) . |
| 29 | This could remove the fear , the pain , the anxiety and other factors which are arrhythmogenic and could cover the patient after thrombolytic therapy . |
| 30 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |