Example sentences of "that it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not by any means inconceivable that it could upset most of the other 10 . |
| 2 | By the mid 1880s the Japanese government felt that it could reopen negotiations concerning revision of the unequal treaties . |
| 3 | However , it was certainly the case that girls ( like their mothers ) were seen as ‘ helpers ’ and ‘ guides ’ to men and to families , and the significance of the club was that it could show them how to overcome their ‘ understandable selfishness ’ and reveal ‘ the beauty of unselfish devotion to others ’ . |
| 4 | This was well and good as was the promise that it could show how ‘ to cultivate and maintain a positive mind , even in the face of adversity . ’ |
| 5 | The great advantage of Realism was that it could justify both accommodation and the building up of armaments in the name of a balance of power . |
| 6 | Yet the Dorset TEC said that it could manage only if the scheme was cut in half . |
| 7 | There was a distinct possibility that it could sink without trace , weighed down by listeners ' indifference , or , of course , it might possibly cause a public outcry , disgusting not merely Tunbridge Wells . |
| 8 | Not that it could go on for ever . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean , up to that point , I thought The Ventures were taking the guitar to its limit ; I did n't see that it could go any further . |
| 10 | In fact managing director Almerino Furlan warned Microsoft that it could go the same way as IBM Corp because , like Big Blue , it is trying to spread itself too thin . |
| 11 | You definitely feel all the time that it could go faster than it ought to — it 's a jet fighter rather than an airbus . ’ |
| 12 | Representatives of the traditional conservative business community , on the other hand , sought to thwart the reform proposal by insisting that it could go ahead only with full Chinese support . |
| 13 | British Rail had been advised that it could go ahead only at its own risk — and it declined to do so . |
| 14 | He turned on the gas and put a match to the stove so that it could warm the office . |
| 15 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 16 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 17 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 18 | There are hopes that the aircraft may receive a reprieve so that it could perform during the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF in April next year . |
| 19 | For the decade following the October 1973 war the United States conducted its policy ( but for a brief moment in 1977 ) on the assumption that it could exclude the Soviet Union from the political process . |
| 20 | Tales of Tongan royal oarsmanship had recently spread as far afield as Hawaii and Tahiti and I reasoned that it could do no harm to mention my interest , albeit one or two decades old . |
| 21 | They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air ; and had actually gone beneath it , on Fiver 's assurance that it could do them no harm . |
| 22 | The 1950s was the golden age of interest-group theory in America and if it could " explain " American politics then there was the tempting presumption that it could do the job of making sense of British politics as well . |
| 23 | Her own mother contemplated such depravity with sorrow , convinced that it could do the poor creatures no good . |
| 24 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 25 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 26 | I thought that it was very polite that we should go there in the evening and assess for ourselves exactly the harm th the possible harm that it could do to their gardens at the back and and that 's why we did that . |
| 27 | The first conceptualization had then to be changed so that it could handle this happening . |
| 28 | IMAGINE a gramophone needle so sensitive that it could detect the individual atoms on a record . |
| 29 | In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur . |
| 30 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |