Example sentences of "of [noun sg] that it could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur . |
| 2 | The next question under the Convention was to determine what kind of legal regime would be acceptable under Article 8(2) , assuming of course that it could meet the requirement of being ‘ in accordance with law ’ . |
| 3 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In those days the prostate was so far below the standard of respectability that it could not even have been mentioned in the newspaper . |
| 6 | The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him . |