Example sentences of "[verb] that it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Contemporary accounts say that it could reach quite high speeds on the rails and that it saved fuel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Italian glaciologists have reported the shrinkage of the Valtellina ice cap over the Italian Alps , suggesting that it could disappear altogether within 60 years . |
| 5 | Some Berliners want it preserved as a historic site , others fear that it could become the focus for neo-fascist demonstrators . |
| 6 | He believed that it could cure ‘ all illness … with the exception of malformation and germ diseases ’ . |
| 7 | By forcing MPs to give up their seats if they joined the Cabinet , the NPKA believed that it could eliminate vote-buying and other corrupt practices . |
| 8 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |
| 9 | She says that it could take at least ten years and cost a considerable amount of cash . |
| 10 | The figures to which the hon. Gentleman refers are not those proposed by the Government but those which the Housing Executive says that it could spend . |
| 11 | He says that it could have been arson , but he ca n't comprehend how saomeone wopuld want to risk people 's lives . |
| 12 | Kevin Dunion , FoE 's Scottish director , said he was delighted that Strathclyde had accepted that it could win no exemption from the European directive that bans sea dumping from the start of 1999 . |
| 13 | Military leaders in Serbia reacted angrily to the airdrop plan , warning that it could escalate the war . |
| 14 | She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her . |
| 15 | The eagle was so evidently , so ferociously beautiful ; one would have thought that it could have impressed itself upon the most unwilling beholder . |
| 16 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |
| 17 | Is it because the Labour party does not believe that it could convince the people , on its own terms , that those are meritorious things to do ? |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , up to that point , I thought The Ventures were taking the guitar to its limit ; I did n't see that it could go any further . |
| 19 | Police said that the motive for the shooting was not clear , adding that it could have been politically motivated or a crime of passion . |
| 20 | Queen Margaret also sees that it could identify with and serve the Leith community , raising educational and training levels for local people , and particularly for part-time and full-time students . |
| 21 | Assume now that the group can not sell all it can make at the normal price of £120 but division B sees that it could win a large order if it were to offer goods at £80 each . |
| 22 | He acknowledged that it could prove up to four times more expensive than wind or wave power . |
| 23 | The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it ‘ disciplines and controls our lads … tames flippancy , quells impertinence , promotes chivalry , encourages reverence , teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority , and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things ’ . |
| 24 | Tales of Tongan royal oarsmanship had recently spread as far afield as Hawaii and Tahiti and I reasoned that it could do no harm to mention my interest , albeit one or two decades old . |
| 25 | I was told that it could spread through the intestines to the stomach and lungs and then you had pretty much had it . |
| 26 | Recently it broke down and he has been told that it could cost up to £400 to get him mobile again . |
| 27 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 28 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |
| 29 | I ca n't imagine that George is gon na continuing doing that forever and it may well be that we 'll be faced with a possibility of , of what we do in the future to have that piece of administration done will we be able to assume that it could done voluntary in the future ? |
| 30 | The British Company had shown that it could play an effective role in the rougher sort of Indian politics , but there was no reason to think it would go on doing so . |