Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 2 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 3 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 4 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 5 | When he asked , then , ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ , he was using Ingeld as an example of the most extreme gap between good ‘ heroic ’ behaviour and good Christian behaviour ; Ingeld took unforgivingness as far as it could go . |
| 6 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 7 | He was talking faster and faster , pulling an accordion pleat of plastic cards from his pocket , folding and unfolding it , slipping each card past the robot 's swivelling eye and puffing them all back again before it could read any of them . |