Example sentences of "it could [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If private capital can be attracted — and I believe it could to the right project — it seems to me entirely right that we should do what we can as Government to create the right climate for a successful link to be built . |
| 2 | Ember seized and aimed it at the control panel beside the door and the room went as dark as it could with the little amber safety-lights glimmering in case of accident . |
| 3 | In these circumstances each polytechnic evolved as best it could in the various contexts within which it had to operate — for finance , primarily its local authority ; for permission to develop a course , the Regional Advisory Council ; for course approval , the CNAA and other validating bodies . |
| 4 | The question is whether the allegiance and the democratic commitment which goes with it could in the foreseeable future be transferred from the nation state to a federal superstate of Europe . |
| 5 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |