Example sentences of "[vb past] that this could " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNITA maintained that this could be done only if there were a reciprocal withdrawal by government troops , and if the process were supervised by the UN . |
| 2 | Importing jute from India , its merchants found that this could be mixed with whale oil to provide hard-wearing coarse fabric . |
| 3 | Rabbi Vogel , director of Lubavitch , agreed that this could cause friction . |
| 4 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 5 | Turkey argued that this could not be done without a decision of the Mixed Commission . |
| 6 | Mr. Collins recognised that this could be so , but said that a least there must be a duty to consider whether time admits of the receipt of representations and in this case there was no such consideration by Lautro . |
| 7 | Mr. Collins recognised that this could be so , but said that at least there must be a duty to consider whether time admits of the receipt of representations and in this case there was no such consideration by Lautro . |
| 8 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 9 | It seemed that this could only have happened by God 's grace and with his approval . |
| 10 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 11 | A member of a local branch of the union claimed that this could be viewed as a ‘ rolled up ’ ballot question , and applied for the Commissioner 's assistance . |
| 12 | He was working at a distinct operational disadvantage , but he reckoned that this could be changed . |
| 13 | A spokesman pointed out that the alliance had agreed to the idea of an interim government in Afghanistan pending elections , and he observed that this could include ‘ neutral ’ personalities . |
| 14 | Again I felt fear and panic well up inside me , but again decided that this could not help in any way and would simply be a waste of the valuable energy which I would need to get through this difficult time . |
| 15 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 16 | Speaking at the launch of the Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1992–93 RFU president Danie Serfontein warned that this could happen if the union feels that it can not put an end to illegal inducements , which he described as being ‘ widespread ’ . |
| 17 | It indicated that developing countries dependent on oil imports could face costs of up to US$26,000 million per year if the US$30 per barrel price continued , and warned that this could have serious repercussions on their economies . |
| 18 | Winnie felt that this could lead to somewhat alarming disclosures which might be regretted by all . |
| 19 | He felt that this could best be done by resorting to myths . |
| 20 | The head said ‘ Yes , he does have difficulty remembering — particularly sounding ’ , and felt that this could be because he was perhaps more fluent in Punjabi . |
| 21 | All of them knew that this could mean only one thing : Aenarion was going to draw the Sword of Khaine , take up the Widowmaker , to wield the ultimate and deadly weapon . |
| 22 | A Phillips & Drew spokesman said that his organisation uses search very rarely but thought that this could well change in the future , especially through the influence of his firm 's parent company , the Union Bank of Switzerland . |
| 23 | They thought that this could reduce duplication and ensure better utilization of resources as well as guaranteeing greater consistency across different branches of the same service . |
| 24 | And Russell thought that this could be generalized even further . |
| 25 | However , he insisted that this could be distinguished from the cognitive validity of knowledge . |
| 26 | As a supporter of balanced budgets , however , he insisted that this could be funded from defence cuts made possible by the " peace dividend " , rather than through deficits or higher taxes . |
| 27 | At one time push-ups were done on the knuckles but since medical evidence proved that this could cause severe metacarpal damage they have been done on the flat of the palms . |
| 28 | He said that this could lead to ‘ a non-statutory monopoly ’ and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . |
| 29 | Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C said that this could only be achieved by an oral examination of the witnesses . |
| 30 | The 10-page document aimed to maintain Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , and contained no offer for a redeployment of Israeli troops stationed in the territories , although Israeli officials said that this could be considered later . |