Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it could happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard to imagine a vast country like Brazil totally stripped of forest but it could happen unless we re-double our efforts now . |
| 2 | This should not happen for at least a million years … but there is an outside chance that it could happen tomorrow . ) |
| 3 | It is an unlikely occurrence but it could happen and we would feel concerned if it did ; indeed , we would probably be unhappy with any sample where the sex ratio differed greatly from that of the whole school . |
| 4 | I hope that the day when European defence does not rely solely on British and French deterrents will not come to pass , but there is clearly a risk that it could happen some time . |
| 5 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 6 | Because some members of the cartel have managed to find ways around production constraints applied in the past , observers do not rule out the possibility that it could happen again . |
| 7 | While there is no evidence of such practices being widespread in the country , the fact that it could happen in the main prison in the capital of India was a matter of scandal . |