Example sentences of "that [ex0] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | This event would presumably precede the potentials being recorded and it could provide an explanation for the apparent referral back in time in the first set of experiments , although it does seem electrophysiologically unlikely that there could be a neural change happening sufficiently early after the triggering stimulus . |
| 3 | With the overall dimensions I had been given , it worked out easily that there could be three arches along the front to one at the side . |
| 4 | Publicly the banks have suggested that there could be dire consequences for the City should the deals be ruled illegal . |
| 5 | Jurgen Warnke , the deputy chairman of the right-wing Christian Social party warned that there could be violence and the whole East German security apparatus could be deployed to ensure the survival of the regime . |
| 6 | The judgments in notorious cases which had decided that there could be unfettered administrative discretion were repudiated . |
| 7 | That message , and yesterday 's speech , contrast sharply with previous conference speeches in which the Prime Minister insisted that there could be no let-up in the long Thatcherite march . |
| 8 | It was an ingenious idea ; but the war with revolutionary France soon destroyed the fiction that there could be two Parliaments with but a single executive . |
| 9 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 10 | His remarks were seen as a sign that the community accepts that there could be a 20- or even 22-member organisation by the end of the 1990s . |
| 11 | ‘ The feeling in the market is that there could be a good trade figure in store , ’ Mr Shepperd said . |
| 12 | He rang me last night , very kindly , principally I think to assure me that there could be no doubt . |
| 13 | His criticisms are directed more at his followers , who fail to recognize , not only that other great past minds have something to teach , but also , more importantly , that there could be great minds in the future . |
| 14 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |
| 15 | SOME shock results on the first day of the French Olympic classes regatta at Hyeres yesterday showed that there could still be plenty of surprises to come in the race for British team selection . |
| 16 | She acknowledged that there could be difficult times ahead . |
| 17 | In particular it made certain that there could never be a repetition of the evictions that had originally brought the crofts into being . |
| 18 | In view of this dependence on outside finance , some of us felt that there could perhaps be more concern with the economics of what is being done . |
| 19 | The Backs enchanted me , and I thought that there could surely be no lovelier ecclesiastical building in the country , and perhaps all Europe , than King 's Chapel , with its perfect fan-vaulting and its jewelled windows staining with glorious blue the white-gold stone . |
| 20 | Adenauer agreed with me that there could be no question of submerging the identity of our two nations in a stateless institution . ’ |
| 21 | The speculation aroused by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer 's statements at the Ecofin meeting in September 1991 that there could be an inner core of eight countries served to emphasise the difficulties of reconciling such a proposal with a wider Europe and to draw attention to the two-speed concept . |
| 22 | Shultz and Weinberger opposed Poindexter 's plan , pointing out that it undermined America 's much-stated policy , usually made in conjunction with Mrs Thatcher , that no deals must be made with terrorists and that there could be no question of bargaining to get hostages released since this would inevitably lead to more abductions . |
| 23 | With formula funding under LMS based on , amongst other things , pupil numbers at the school , it was clearly anticipated that there could be intense competition between schools to attract pupils . |
| 24 | An active group of villagers discovered that there could be up to eighty of these heavy loads . |
| 25 | In the first example of his tenacity , he pointed out that there could be no guarantee that the government 's privatization plans would go ahead in their then current form and they might not happen at all . |
| 26 | They maintain that there could be circumstances in which disobedience is justified even though the law itself does not admit that it is . |
| 27 | Early impressions suggest that there could be keen competition to provide such a service — if the money can be found ! |
| 28 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 29 | Gauguin , in his evocations of life in Tahiti , was the first to show that there could be a completely different culture — more sensual , less strait-laced — more fitting to the beach . |
| 30 | ‘ There must be risks that there could be moves afoot in the not too distant future for the closure of the Petersfield Court . |