Example sentences of "was that it could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 2 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 3 | The essential flaw in association , as a practical strategy , was that it could only work — i.e. neutralize the FLN and end the war — in the long term . |
| 4 | He considered himself on the whole a pretty steady person , but the trouble with steadiness was that it could very easily become the humdrum . |
| 5 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 6 | The novelty of this discontent was that it could now be mobilised by the political left . |