Example sentences of "[verb] that it could " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have suggested that the powerpack would be so designed that it could readily be repaired and with suitable maintenance would be capable of running for some 20 years . |
| 2 | This theory has recently been investigated scientifically , and the results suggest that it could well be correct . |
| 3 | Forestry experts suggest that it could be due to a cocktail of factors , including drought and climate change , " acid rain " -type pollution , and insects attacking the trees . |
| 4 | Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week . |
| 5 | For example , if we saw the sequence PQZT , we would know that it could not possibly be an English word . |
| 6 | In all his writings from hiding he had increasingly found a brave and defiant secular voice : one that recognised a ‘ God-shaped hole ’ in life , but did not doubt that it could be filled by art , literature and imagination . |
| 7 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 8 | Contemporary accounts say that it could reach quite high speeds on the rails and that it saved fuel . |
| 9 | By 1938 the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee ad-mitted that it could not increase dependants ' benefits without pushing the level of unemployment benefit for the family man above the level of many workers earnings . |
| 10 | Having been warned off Channel 7 by Pannells , he contacted the Institute only to find that it could not approve the service . |
| 11 | As Sir Arthur Bryant has so vividly put it , ‘ That life of scholarship and labour , with the tireless hand writing amid the intervals of prayer and teaching , sometimes so frozen that it could hardly grip the pen , is one of the proud memories of England . ’ |
| 12 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
| 13 | The Athens team found that it could . |
| 14 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 15 | The magazine found that it could not justify the Crozier allegations which it had published , and agreed to apologise , pay damages and make a statement in open court publicly retracting the libel . |
| 16 | Because of the heavy clay content of the material , it was considered that it could not be compacted enough for the development . |
| 17 | It is , of course , true that , had she paused to consider the matter , the woman might have realised that it could prove difficult to acquire a gun and that she would be able to seek help once he had left . |
| 18 | When the old man had wandered upstairs again , with a book under his arm , Clara whispered " Who Was that ? " and even as she Whispered she realized that it could be no other than the book shops owner , and added hastily , " That must be A. I Warbley , I suppose ? " |
| 19 | He realized that it could be ideally cast within the existing company . |
| 20 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |
| 21 | Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ? |
| 22 | But , of course , others insist that it could never be humane in practice because the essence of the cruelty is not only in causing a painful and prolonged death but , rather , in the harrowing chase of the animal , and moreover , of an animal which has not evolved with the typical biological characteristics of a prey species . |
| 23 | All readers however perceive that it could as easily mean death . |
| 24 | Italian glaciologists have reported the shrinkage of the Valtellina ice cap over the Italian Alps , suggesting that it could disappear altogether within 60 years . |
| 25 | In this telephone conversation the receptionist tactfully ascertained the nature of the call , realised that it could be dealt with without bothering a busy manager , dealt with the matter according to established policy and reassured the caller . |
| 26 | And from the sudden change in her inquisitor 's manner , she realised that it could n't possibly be . |
| 27 | They had proven that it could be done . |
| 28 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 29 | Mr Major said yesterday that the economy was ‘ coming out of recession now ’ but admitted that it could not be proved . |
| 30 | Afterwards Martina , 36 next month , admitted that it could possibly be her last Grand Slam event . |