Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motor racing world was stunned because , in a sport that flirts with death , there were many drivers who thought that if it could happen to Clark , it could happen to any of them . |
| 2 | The immediate response from intellectuals and students was a euphoric sense that if it could happen in backward Russia then why not in Latin America ? |
| 3 | Reviewing the latest research on the greenhouse effect , the working group confirmed its previous conclusions that average global temperatures would rise by between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees centigrade per decade , but decided that its previous " best guess " of a 0.3 degree rise might be too high , and that it could take until 2030 , rather than 2025 , for global temperatures to rise by a full degree . |
| 4 | It confirmed its previous conclusions that average global temperatures would rise by between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees centigrade per decade , but decided that its previous " best guess " of a 0.3 degree rise might be a little too high , and that it could take until 2030 , rather than 2025 , for temperatures to rise by a full degree . |
| 5 | I have already had countless phone calls and letters from Rugby World & Post readers asking about the law of repeated infringement and if it could apply to a team as well as an individual player . |
| 6 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 7 | The kind of questions that might be asked in the context are whether the proposal could have wide effects beyond the immediate locality , whether it could give rise to regional or national controversy and whether it could conflict with national policy . |