Example sentences of "[conj] it could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reports of the great Parliamentary Commissions , which in the 1830s and 1840s investigated working conditions in factories and mines , were saturated with an obsessive concern with the sexuality of the working class , the social other , displacing in the end the acute social crisis from the area of exploitation and class conflict , where it could not be coped with , into the framework of a more amenable and discussable area of ‘ morality ’ . |
| 2 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 3 | The early light was damp and fresh as the clay when she slipped the wedding band from her finger , putting it carefillly on the shelf , where it could not be lost . |
| 4 | Similarly , the Gracious Speech is an apology for the privatisation process that has taken place , because it has led to the wholesale transfer of monopolies from the public to the private sector without serious competition , or adequate regulation to replace competition where it could not exist . |
| 5 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 6 | When the radio is switched on , this voltage , stored on C1 , is temporarily let loose on the circuitry , where it could conceivably do some damage . |
| 7 | She took two silver coins out of the tin then put it where it could only be found by her . |
| 8 | Either it would not or it could not observe the policy . |
| 9 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 10 | see if something that could be useful , or it could not , you never know . |
| 11 | It could be or it could n't . |
| 12 | Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract . |
| 13 | It could rise ( e.g. towards w 1 ) as Keynes believed , it could fall ( e.g. towards w 2 ) as Dunlop and Tarshis believed , or it could conceivably remain unchanged at its market clearing level w * ; . |
| 14 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 15 | In this way , although it could not have considered the fact , it was very like the man who waited in the shadows of its home territory . |
| 16 | This would of itself set off ecumenical vibrations such that , although it could not be called a ‘ Council of reunion ’ like Florence , it could be a Council leading towards what he called ‘ the recomposition of the whole mystical flock of Christ ’ . |
| 17 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 18 | Although it could not , in any way , be connected with her butterfly , its force lingered , linking up with the rejection of her act of love . |
| 19 | The fact that the Sun is producing far less of these enigmatic particles than expected could well be a symptom that it is going through a quiescent period — although it could equally well be that there is something wrong with our theories concerning what makes the Sun shine . |
| 20 | As I type these words they are going straight into RAM , and the word processing program controlling things is also in RAM , although it could theoretically be burned into ROM and then never subsequently altered . |
| 21 | She sent up a brief prayer of thanks that her shift was still dry , although it could hardly be described as a significant covering . |
| 22 | He was accustomed to conventional envy from some of his contemporaries ( although it could still distress him — Joseph Chiari recalls him leaving a party in Edinburgh because of the atmosphere of jealousy which he sensed there ) . |
| 23 | Originally these powers were largely advisory , although it could always sack the Commission and throw out the annual budget by a two-thirds majority of all its members . |
| 24 | Beardsley , meanwhile , produced a performance of such craft , guile and wisdom that it could yet make him the saviour of England manager Graham Taylor — if only he would pick him . |
| 25 | To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland . |
| 26 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 27 | The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake . |
| 28 | For example , one group was drawn from a London housing estate where a high proportion of tenants have been taken to court over debt , so that it could easily get a bad name among local traders . |
| 29 | If you were trying to train one from scratch and made an error like that it could easily mess up an entire day 's work . |
| 30 | The Popplewell report into the disaster concluded that it could easily have been prevented . |