Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] it could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that we never reach the position that I have sometimes , although not often , met in my constituency , when I have received a phone call from a private home to the effect that it could no longer keep a patient who had perhaps become doubly incontinent . |
| 2 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 3 | Derain 's Baigneuses is in many ways closer in spirit to the Demoiselles , and it was regarded by Vauxcelles at least , as a revolutionary work , but it had the advantage that it could still be fitted into a traditional frame of reference . |
| 4 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 5 | Three weeks later the high command again said hands off , with a reminder that it could still mount a coup . |
| 6 | The assembly of merchants had become of little value as a tax-granting body not just because of the hostility of the commons but also because Edward 's monopolistic schemes had so divided the mercantile community that it could no longer speak with one voice . |
| 7 | PEOPLE living near a disused engineering works in Darlington yesterday welcomed the news that it could soon be demolished . |
| 8 | One speaker was introduced with the sobriquet that his ambition ‘ was never to become involved in Unix ’ , a more general view being that it could no longer be ignored , even if little good might come of it ! |
| 9 | The various parties involved in the peace process had tended to ignore the issue , working on the assumption that it could only be tackled at an advanced stage of a settlement . |
| 10 | A major influence was undoubtedly the personality of the dean himself , but the essential catalysts were the decision by the department of anatomy that it could no longer continue to operate two separate curricula — one for the traditional course and one for the parallel track — and the decision by several of the charitable funders of the new pathway that future grants would be available only if the scheme was adopted throughout the school . |
| 11 | She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar . |
| 12 | After that , the Minoans appear either to have lost interest in temple-worship , or to have restructured their economy in such a way that it could no longer sustain — or no longer needed — large temple-complexes . |
| 13 | Conservatives may well believe that the abuse of their authority by men is wrong , but that relationships in which one sex is in such a position that it could so abuse the other are in themselves wrong can not be admitted . |
| 14 | 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 . |