Example sentences of "[vb past] that it could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The plan was criticized by industrialists , who warned that it could reduce Europe 's competitiveness in international markets , and by the governments of a number of oil-producing countries , including Saudi Arabia and Iran . |
| 3 | The plan was criticized by industrialists , who warned that it could reduce Europe 's competitiveness in international markets , and by oil producing countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran . |
| 4 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 5 | By the mid 1880s the Japanese government felt that it could reopen negotiations concerning revision of the unequal treaties . |