Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] it could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
| 2 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 3 | Afterwards Martina , 36 next month , admitted that it could possibly be her last Grand Slam event . |
| 4 | Do you do you think erm your father when he started the shop in twenty six , would ever imagined that it could possibly go on to the the end of the century ? |
| 5 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 6 | Shildon said mail order lingerie was an area the business section had too long ignored , Rain insisted that knickers were gossip column fodder and Harbury remarked that it could probably be shown there had been offences under the Post Office Act . |
| 7 | They decided that it could only be because Joan 's health was so poor in the fens that the professor was forced to move . |
| 8 | The angle of the glacier meant that it could only hover , one ski touching the slope . |
| 9 | Even as the thought came to the forefront of his mind , Alexei knew that it could never be that simple — that he was forced to conform to alien culture and alien reasoning . |
| 10 | He was young , and not at all bad-looking ; she thought that it could well have happened in a much worse way . |
| 11 | They thought that it could only just have died . |
| 12 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 13 | Instead the structure chosen for the Inquiry ensured that it could only be resolved in favour of the course supported by the government . |
| 14 | The Popplewell report into the disaster concluded that it could easily have been prevented . |
| 15 | Ofek 2 was officially described as an experimental scientific satellite , but press reports suggested that it could also be used to gather military intelligence . |