Example sentences of "[pron] it could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 2 | If one writes and asks — or begs — British Rail to include improvements in the Bill which it could easily have done by extending part III , one gets the same treatment . |
| 3 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 4 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 5 | The Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society this month withdrew its cheap share-dealing service , which it could not make profitable . |
| 6 | While the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) army suggested that Armenian extremists could have attacked the depot , others accused the CIS army itself of destroying weaponry which it could not remove , following the Russian decree evacuating CIS troops from the Transcaucasus region [ see p. 38827 ] . |
| 7 | Sergeant Henley said , as if it was all her show , which it could not have been : ‘ How are things with you , Sarah ? ’ |
| 8 | Also , there are situations in which it could well save the day . |
| 9 | In his inaugural address to ministers earlier that day the Czechoslovak President , Vaclav Havel , had urged the CSCE to create " a smaller organ similar to that of the UN Security Council , to which it could also give some executive powers " . |
| 10 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 11 | He added , however , that his Ministry is looking into ways in which it could legally ban their importation . |
| 12 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 13 | The CNAA 's procedures , its concern with the total academic environment in which its courses were offered , had led it — at a time when its relationships with the institutions were under intensive discussion — to a position in which it could directly influence the management and operation of an institution where it perceived weaknesses , as well as the institution 's own relationships with governors and the local authority . |
| 14 | ‘ Only for you it could n't have come to anything . ’ |
| 15 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 16 | If a two-dimensional creature ate something it could not digest completely , it would have to bring up the remains the same way it swallowed them , because if there were a passage right through its body , it would divide the creature into two separate halves ; our two-dimensional being would fall apart ( Fig. 10.8 ) . |
| 17 | In this way it gave the predator hope of an easy catch , something it could not resist . |
| 18 | If it was all real to him it could not contain any factual inconsistencies . " |
| 19 | I just kept saying to her it could n't work . |
| 20 | We can not be complacent , for progress marches on and inflation eats at our financing , but we can be proud of the Institution — and extend again our heartfelt thanks to the voluntary fund raisers and crews without whom it could not exist in any form . |
| 21 | Concluding his report to the Governors Mr Vernon returned to the people who make up the RNLI , and without whom it could not exist . |
| 22 | If there were spokes and the Scapegoat happened to be topside of them it could n't fall through . ’ |
| 23 | If I had written the script myself it could not have turned out better : two European titles and a British record . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've spent the whole time trying to convince myself it could never work between us , ’ he went on , as though she had n't spoken . |
| 25 | Developing since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , accelerating in the nineteenth century in step with the acceleration of capitalist industry , the process of intrusion increasingly separated culture out into the familiar contours of ‘ high ’ and ‘ low ’ , isolating what it could not assimilate . |
| 26 | The household unit of production , though headed by male weaver or other out-worker , was not governed by the object of accumulating a monetary surplus : " It could not maximise what it could not measure . " |
| 27 | What it could not ignore was the threat of European fascism . |
| 28 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |