Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A European Commission statement issued on Oct. 8 on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) warned that this extension of the existing 30-year US embargo " had the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship " , adding that it could not accept that " the USA unilaterally determines and restricts EC economic and commercial relations with any foreign nation which has not been designated by the UN as a threat to peace or order " . |
| 2 | The court astonished everybody by deciding that it could not rule on the legality or otherwise of something that had not happened yet . |
| 3 | Silverstone calls itself the home of British motor racing and it could equally call itself the home of Formula One since the first race of the first world championship was held there in l950 . |
| 4 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 5 | Afterwards , she lay naked , warm and quiescent in the curve of his arm , listening to his laboured breathing , feeling the fast , steady beat of his heart as it thundered against her cheek , knowing that it could never have been so good , so satisfying for both of them if she had n't loved him . |
| 6 | Another writer , Ward ( 1981 ) , also argued against open adoption , again claiming that it could adversely affect the child 's bonding to its new family . |
| 7 | It provides , secondly , that long elusive missing link , decision taken on 5 Corps ' signal on 23 May reiterating that it could only carry out its orders to hand over the Cossacks if it was given authorization to use force . |
| 8 | Here Laski was highly critical of the abstract legal idea of absolute legal sovereignty , arguing that it could not form a realistic basis for political relationships . |
| 9 | In fact , you 're probably thinking that it could n't have arrived at a less propitious moment . ’ |
| 10 | Within two years of the investment the company , realizing that it could now offer customers more custom-built specifications , was producing a considerable range of products from the new machines . |