Example sentences of "and that it could [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The government therefore took its stand on the position that the confidentiality rule operated between members of the Cabinet and in the general context of a minister 's official duties , and that it could be invoked in a court of law to restrain revelations of Cabinet and other official discussions .
2 perhaps the single most important effect of the Cuban revolution was that it proved beyond all doubt that Marxism was not an exclusively European doctrine and that it could be applied successfully in Latin America .
3 Aldercine Hodson , who has long felt that Medau 's possibilities were under-exploited and that it could be developed , for instance , as a valuable coaching-aid in sport , tells the following story , which she thinks illustrates her point and makes Medau News .
4 These data suggest that platelet activating factor may be involved in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease and that it could be used as a marker of the mucosal activity of the disease .
5 The engineers tell us that the core of the building is intact and that it could be rebuilt and restructured .
6 He hinted that there was a Mandela autobiography , and that it could be published if Mandela were released .
7 The plaintiffs contended that their business plan was confidential , that the items of information relied upon were sufficiently confidential to be protectable after termination of the defendants ' employment and that it could be inferred that the defendants had used those items by virtue of alleged similarity between figures appearing in the respective business plans .
8 When one of the witnesses pointed out that the testator had not signed the will the testator replied that he had signed it at the top and that it could be signed anywhere .
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