Example sentences of "could [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain likes parts of Britain 's hard-ecu plan since it could slow moves to EMU . |
| 2 | His mother the dowager Queen Isabella survived until 1358 and if she could transmit title to Edward III , why could not Jeanne of Navarre , Louis X 's daughter , or any of the daughters of Philip V do likewise ? |
| 3 | We may guess that a pipe flow with an artificially induced parabolic profile at the entry could remain laminar to even higher Reynolds numbers than flows with a normal entry length . |
| 4 | We could prepare accounts to 31 October 1992 ( a period of more than six months ) and then to 31 October 1993 and so on . |
| 5 | I think there is some room for suggesting that , erm , in certain circumstances , the actual perpetrator of the crime , could make retribution to the victim . |
| 6 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |
| 7 | I could make love to you in any room in the house , ’ he grinned . |
| 8 | The Challenge project would provide further resources for each development , and a new interdisciplinary theme through which a wide range of subject departments could make contributions to pupils ' learning . |
| 9 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 10 | He could make concessions to his allies and all would be well so long as they did not come into conflict with one another . |
| 11 | I mean if you do things like that while improving infrastructure , erm , setting up credit , government credit facilities , er , so , so , so we can lend , we could lend money to small farms . |
| 12 | So you could relate positivity to achievement and see what you have access to that might express that . |
| 13 | Pupils could convey messages to each other by inventing their own sign language . |
| 14 | President Reagan is probably right in thinking that private companies could introduce innovations to what has become rather a moribund operation . |
| 15 | Eavesdropping on process plant could alert engineers to developing problems in time to prevent a serious accident , according to the acoustic diagnostics team at AEA Technology . |
| 16 | Now if we can get a proper public transport system , a properly funded public transport system which will make , you can force people off the roads but you can also force them to persuade the approach with a properly funded er public transport system which is A priced within the peoples pockets and B er you can lead to views that will be er , er will be a great advantage for the area and the fifth terminal at Heathrow could fall par to this structure but if this new structure is n't there and if it is n't part of this adequately funded transport system then there is no point in , in building it was as I said earlier be , be madness . |
| 17 | There is a particular risk that children could fall victim to the misplaced aggression of a guard dog . |
| 18 | And , before she could fall victim to the tears of rage that threatened her , she stumbled past the startled girl towards the lift . |
| 19 | Foreign involvement in US carriers , Mr Skinner argued recently , could compromise response to a national emergency . |
| 20 | In such regions the temperatures could have been low enough to permit certain volatiles to condense yielding volatile-rich bodies which could survive passage to the Earth . |
| 21 | This process will identify critical areas where lack of performance could prevent progression to the next stage . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher should do either as the Mail demands and replace Mr Lawson with a Chancellor of whose policies she can wholeheartedly approve or , as Mr Heseltine urges , lift her veto against the only course which could give credibility to an exchange rate policy . |
| 23 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 24 | Mr Smith said he feared that opt-out schools could give rise to a two-tier education system . |
| 25 | Since the nucleus of a cell in the gut could give rise to a normal toad it is clear that no genetic information had been lost during the development of the gut , and the same holds for the skin nucleus . |
| 26 | Yalden & Yalden were able to calculate correction factors which could take this differential loss into account , but clearly this could give rise to problems in interpreting predator assemblages . |
| 27 | For example , posing the question ‘ What happens if the stationery replenishment procedure fails ? ’ could give rise to a variety of answers . |
| 28 | An uncontentious view could give rise to a conceptual model ( Fig 13.8 ) that reflects the actual procedures followed , based on the transformation : |
| 29 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 30 | And yet , if a circle of blisters caused by the plague could give rise to a Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses , and the famous Dick Whittington cat was not introduced until about 150 years after Dick died , why should embellishment through the ages not have taken King Coel or Coilus to Old King Cole , completed with pipe , bowl and fiddlers three . |