Example sentences of "that it could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the mid 1880s the Japanese government felt that it could reopen negotiations concerning revision of the unequal treaties . |
| 2 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it can keep up the pace , ICL 's hope is that it could overtake IBM in the UK by 1996 . |
| 5 | They were people who thought It was important — and that it could make money . |
| 6 | ‘ What is most worrying about this kind of action is that it could complicate matters if someone else were to decide to intervene , say in Romania . |
| 7 | A call by the Netherlands , Germany and Denmark for more generous fiscal incentives for cleaner cars to cut emissions faster was resisted by other EC countries , including the UK , on grounds that it could distort competition . |
| 8 | Each activity was assessed in relation to the function that it could form part of , and whether a functional group currently existed that could be responsible for it . |
| 9 | These can harm the consumer — the ban on the sweetening agent cyclamate on the grounds that it could cause cancer is a case in point . |
| 10 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 11 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 12 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 13 | Sweden used to be part of the ‘ snake ’ ( predecessor of the European exchange-rate mechanism ) , but quit in 1977 , so that it could keep control of its own economic policy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the basis that it was to be a ‘ one-off ’ , and following conclusive proof that it could read DCA/RFT files directly off the company network , the syste was allowed . |
| 17 | The Burton Property Trust developed project is due to open in August and fears have been expressed that it could harm town trade if tenants with a current presence in Darlington moved in . |
| 18 | Fife College has been seen as one of the further education colleges most likely to break through the barrier which separates the sector from higher education , and there have been suggestions that it could become Fife 's second university , after St Andrews . |
| 19 | ‘ The danger of a hung Parliament is that it could hang Britain , ’ a senior Cabinet minister said yesterday . |
| 20 | With its high fructose corn syrup ( HFCS ) sweetener , Staley had already shown that it could develop products capable of transforming whole sectors of the food industry . |
| 21 | They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |