Example sentences of "and it could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 2 | He 'd know that someone would have to go down there and recover the body and it could easily have been spotted . |
| 3 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 4 | She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them . |
| 5 | In this way , the company was guaranteed a yearly income and it could thus pursue a programme policy that was developed with little regard for the wishes of the audience . |
| 6 | Radio must serve the interests of everyone , not of particular religions , regions or social and economic groups , and it could best do this if not subject to the direct control of a ministry . |
| 7 | it was the ‘ fourth estate ’ taking governments to task and protecting the public interest as well as representing public opinion ; and it could also help create a politically literate society . |
| 8 | Silverstone calls itself the home of British motor racing and it could equally call itself the home of Formula One since the first race of the first world championship was held there in l950 . |
| 9 | Either way , she will relish a return to a soft surface here , and it could well pay to forgive her single lapse . |
| 10 | This is an ensemble show in the RSC 's great tradition of Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables ( Caird was co-director of both with Trevor Nunn ) and it could well repeat their success at the box office . |
| 11 | Stress will certainly affect the levels of a number of hormones circulating in the bloodstream and it could well alter brain metabolism . |
| 12 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 13 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 14 | Clearly , 1992 will pose many opportunities ( and threats ) to companies within the EC , but it is felt that things will not change overnight ; it will be more of a slow transitionary period and it could well take decades before we see an integration similar to that in the USA today . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 16 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 17 | In May , 1992 , the regional health authority informed Riverside Health Authority ( the district health authority ) that the unit 's transfer was being reconsidered and it could only commit capital to the unit if the case load was increased and if the unit could withstand a reduction of charitable funding . |
| 18 | That could only have happened if the Left did not know what was going on , and it could only have not known what was going on if it was being tricked by one of its own . |
| 19 | It shone and danced in the darkness , and without it there would be nothing ; but one hand raised against it and it could lightly cease . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got this notion that there 's a drum weighing three tonnes above you and it could suddenly fall . |