Example sentences of "when it could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 2 | The very optimism of the possibility that the miners might be on the move against the government carried with it a premonition of pessimism , that the miners would save the working class when it could not save itself . |
| 3 | Similarly , the value of a reinvestigation could be weakened if , instead of co-operating , the suspect leaves his explanation for the trial , when not only can it not be investigated but when it could also cast doubt on the value of any re-investigation that has taken place . |
| 4 | Also engineers are singled out here as the culprits when it could well have been social ( and technically incompetent ) scientists ! |
| 5 | Why not , Owen had thought , get him to put his money down later , when it could really do some good . |