Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it could [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporary accounts say that it could reach quite high speeds on the rails and that it saved fuel . |
| 2 | Italian glaciologists have reported the shrinkage of the Valtellina ice cap over the Italian Alps , suggesting that it could disappear altogether within 60 years . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , up to that point , I thought The Ventures were taking the guitar to its limit ; I did n't see that it could go any further . |
| 4 | The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it ‘ disciplines and controls our lads … tames flippancy , quells impertinence , promotes chivalry , encourages reverence , teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority , and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things ’ . |
| 5 | Representatives of the traditional conservative business community , on the other hand , sought to thwart the reform proposal by insisting that it could go ahead only with full Chinese support . |
| 6 | Yet the Dorset TEC said that it could manage only if the scheme was cut in half . |
| 7 | British Rail had been advised that it could go ahead only at its own risk — and it declined to do so . |
| 8 | Although Bush did not specify how much such assistance — which would be additional to the $203,000,000 already agreed — would amount to , some US officials suggested that it could measure more than $3,500 million over the next decade . |