Example sentences of "[that] it could [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were people who thought It was important — and that it could make money . |
| 3 | A call by the Netherlands , Germany and Denmark for more generous fiscal incentives for cleaner cars to cut emissions faster was resisted by other EC countries , including the UK , on grounds that it could distort competition . |
| 4 | Each activity was assessed in relation to the function that it could form part of , and whether a functional group currently existed that could be responsible for it . |
| 5 | These can harm the consumer — the ban on the sweetening agent cyclamate on the grounds that it could cause cancer is a case in point . |
| 6 | Sweden used to be part of the ‘ snake ’ ( predecessor of the European exchange-rate mechanism ) , but quit in 1977 , so that it could keep control of its own economic policy . |
| 7 | On the basis that it was to be a ‘ one-off ’ , and following conclusive proof that it could read DCA/RFT files directly off the company network , the syste was allowed . |
| 8 | The Burton Property Trust developed project is due to open in August and fears have been expressed that it could harm town trade if tenants with a current presence in Darlington moved in . |
| 9 | They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country . |