Example sentences of "[vb past] it could [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Soviet Union believed it could exploit possible NATO weakness at the intermediate nuclear level , the risks for it from aggression would be less . |
| 2 | Last last year , AT&T showed it could transmit 432 million bits of information per second through a single-mode fibre system in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 3 | But with inflation there on its way down and the economy bumping along the bottom of a recession , the Bundesbank Council decided it could tolerate another downward step . |
| 4 | Authority chief executive Brian Jones , and FHSA chief executive Christopher Last both warned it could prove costly . |
| 5 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 6 | So if all the deuterium fused it could generate substantial heat in the Earth . |
| 7 | Mr McFall held up a penknife with a three-inch blade and said it could exact terrible injuries and that post-mortem examinations last year at the department of forensic medicine and science at Glasgow University showed that in 18 out of 31 stabbings , the wound was three inches or less . |
| 8 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
| 9 | Rosehaugh Stanhope , developer of Broadgate in the City , said it could house all those affected , and Olympia and York , developer of Canary Wharf , said it could also provide space . |