Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree . |
| 2 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on . |
| 3 | Which basically found it could n't make a railway service run and dropped it . |
| 4 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 5 | Airline access to Heathrow had hitherto been restricted by a rule introduced in 1977 , declaring that only those airlines which already served it could continue to do so . |
| 6 | CONGLOMERATE Williams Holdings increased profits by £50m , but still insisted it could see ‘ no evidence of significant economic improvement ’ . |
| 7 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 8 | Authority chief executive Brian Jones , and FHSA chief executive Christopher Last both warned it could prove costly . |
| 9 | They both probably thought it could never happen to them . |
| 10 | The skimmed milk was fed to pigs but the Rowlands eventually decided it could be used more profitably and began to make low-fat yogurt and cottage cheese . |
| 11 | I NEVER really believed it could be a pleasurable experience driving a diesel car . |
| 12 | Neither believed it could obtain its minimal requirements by negotiation . |
| 13 | ‘ I never thought it could happen . |