Example sentences of "it could [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could also ensure that allegations of torture , rape and deaths in custody are impartially investigated , that those responsible are brought to justice and that the victims and their families are compensated . |
| 2 | The sentence ‘ We have only shown that A is justified if B and C are ’ could mean , as was pretended above , that we have shown A 's justification to be conditional on that of B and C ; but it could also mean that if B and C are in fact justified , we have shown that A is , i.e. that the success of our demonstration is conditional , not the justification we have demonstrated . |
| 3 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 4 | It could also indicate that there is uncertainty about Reilly 's support team , which consists principally of Les Bettinson , the manager , and Phil Larder , the national director of coaching . |
| 5 | It could also indicate that there is uncertainty about Reilly 's support team , which consists principally of Les Bettinson , the manager , and Phil Larder , the national director of coaching . |
| 6 | It could also indicate that you have reached the end of the road with one enterprise . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 8 | Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’ |
| 9 | In that case it is all one operation , and it could not matter that he wrote his signature on the document before the dispositive wording of the will . |
| 10 | Bartholomew was the most senior US official to visit Pakistan since October 1990 when the US Congress suspended economic and military assistance to Pakistan after it could not certify that Pakistan had no nuclear weapons programme . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | This may not help the market go up , but it could well ensure that any setback is only modest , ’ says Mr Tora . |
| 13 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 14 | Of course , it could simply mean that winter foetuses might not get the same diet as others . |
| 15 | If it did not , it could always argue that many more children would be withdrawn from school altogether . |
| 16 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 17 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 18 | If the horse had been doped , it could only mean that someone in Bill 's yard had been involved . |
| 19 | It could only mean that his own future as Duke was doubly assured . |
| 20 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |