Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heseltine promised to , to call review which was delayed until it could persuade sufficient Tory members to vote for it . |
| 2 | I was told that it could spread through the intestines to the stomach and lungs and then you had pretty much had it . |
| 3 | The Dane Valdemar Poulsen invented his ‘ Telegraphone ’ in 1898 and patented it in 1900 , but ( as with commercial electrical recording ) amplification was needed before it could become practicable . |
| 4 | By setting up a nuclear energy community at the outset , it was believed that it could provide an important impetus towards closer integration . |
| 5 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 6 | A quarter of Ray 's stock was killed but it could have been a human life lost . |
| 7 | ‘ The tree was destroyed before it could bear fruit ! ’ shouted Surere , gripping the edge of the table and half rising from his seat . |