Example sentences of "it could get " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me that in four or five years , it could get worse and would get arthritic . |
| 2 | And a belief that the Church ( if it could get its message right ) , more than the lawyers or the economists or the political leaders , was the chief hope for society and the world . |
| 3 | This time , it could get 15 or even 20 . |
| 4 | Under the glitz , this is an ugly time in Hong Kong , with serious although scarcely reported unrest in the sealed-off boat people 's detention centres throughout the week , and it could get worse . |
| 5 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 6 | Now , we may surmise that any individual fish , if it could get away with it , would ‘ prefer ’ to play the male role all the time , because the male role is cheaper . |
| 7 | Sometimes a bale of cloth went and you wondered how it could get past the Dock gate . |
| 8 | Finally it could get its own satellites . |
| 9 | The left has only a small window of opportunity in which to put its views across ; it needed every week and month it could get . |
| 10 | He realised that the van would be clear of the car park before he could get onto the return ramp , and even with its shredded front tyre , it could get outside the hotel area , and the driver escape into the streets of London . |
| 11 | ‘ It could get from the Store to the quarry in under fifteen seconds . ’ |
| 12 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |
| 13 | It had already shared dinner and such a tough mouse deserved all the nourishment it could get . |
| 14 | And it could get worse . |
| 15 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the authority of an ecumenical Council , more representative of the whole world than any previous Council , working responsibly and prayerfully across four years with all the support it could get from the ablest theologians , is clearly in human and ecclesial terms as considerable as can be . |
| 17 | The X Business Group , the force trying to energize this new-fangled trade organisation , the X Industry Association ( UX No 410 ) , has extended the December deadline it set to see if it could get industry backing until January because the solicitation letters just went out . |
| 18 | It will hold stock and spares and says it could get first machines as early as September from its US parent . |
| 19 | A common set of robust application programming interfaces for graphical user interfaces and networking would do to start with says UI , which it believes it could get most of the community to commit to , even if each has a different implementation ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 20 | For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 21 | Armchair strategists reckon that the terms AT&T can demand now for all or part of USL are less than it could get when both Univel and SVR4.2 have proven themselves . |
| 22 | He had forgotten how humid it could get in Beirut at that time of year . |
| 23 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 24 | Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case . |
| 25 | Palaeo-biological precedent dictated such an organ be housed in Gavin 's ample rear , and have responsibility for his lower limbs — not to say urges — rather than his arms , but then one never knew , and I reckoned Gavin 's modest forebrain — doubtless fully occupied with the post-modernist sub-texts and tertiary structuralist imagery of Red Heat — could probably do with all the help it could get . |
| 26 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 27 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 28 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |
| 29 | The trouble with the Labour system is that it would spend many more years trying to introduce it before it could get rid of the poll tax . |
| 30 | The scenes-of-crime van was parked as near the site as it could get , planks had been laid on the ground approaching and under the scaffolding to preserve whatever evidence there might be , and the area where the body was had been screened off . |