Example sentences of "[vb past] it could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government would not stand in the way of a united Ireland provided it could be negotiated by democratic and peaceful means . |
| 2 | Now , the Club Dog is the howling interactive success its humble beginnings promised it could be . |
| 3 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |
| 4 | If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree . |
| 5 | He knew that whoever found it could rule the new world . |
| 6 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on . |
| 7 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 8 | The one I selected guaranteed 10 minutes of power backup , but I found it could run for over 20 minutes before it signalled that it was out of storage capacity . |
| 9 | Which basically found it could n't make a railway service run and dropped it . |
| 10 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 11 | When such practice first occurred it could be justified . |
| 12 | It showed 42 per cent believed it could prove a useful catalyst for improving social conditions with 45 per cent against . |
| 13 | Neither believed it could obtain its minimal requirements by negotiation . |
| 14 | If the Soviet Union believed it could exploit possible NATO weakness at the intermediate nuclear level , the risks for it from aggression would be less . |
| 15 | The police believed it could have been a very large feral cat , or a puma or panther released after legislation on dangerous animals . |
| 16 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 17 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 18 | Many women realized that our trade union did n't have the support of the management and believed it could n't resolve any of our problems . |
| 19 | Asked about possible acquisitions , Lord Blakenham singled out educational , medical , professional and children 's book publishing as areas in which Pearson was strong , and where the group believed it could achieve expansion through both organic growth and acquisitions . |
| 20 | Alt is wisely tentative in his conclusions given the nature of the available data but he is prepared to argue that there is " no evidence that any British Government in the period [ since 1964 ] … believed it could " steal " an election by mortgaging the future in the interest of an economically better present " . |
| 21 | I NEVER really believed it could be a pleasurable experience driving a diesel car . |
| 22 | I recognised it could mean marking time but I do n't think in practice that has happened . |
| 23 | Before the 1970s , one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering . |
| 24 | Joseph Payne , an Alex Brown & Sons would let loose a huge supply of stock onto the market and fund managers would n't stand for it — a rather naive statement since the non-executive directors would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they allowed IBM to pay a dividend they judged it could not afford . |
| 25 | Strathclyde told it could do better with green policies |
| 26 | It assumed it could do so again . |
| 27 | We should scarcely find the style of Henry James worth studying unless we assumed it could tell us something about James as a literary artist . |
| 28 | He predicted it could well be a smash-hit . |
| 29 | Last last year , AT&T showed it could transmit 432 million bits of information per second through a single-mode fibre system in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 30 | I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption . |