Example sentences of "in [noun] it could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical ; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies . |
2 | It is not known where he learned his trade , but if it was not in Raunds it could have been in Cambridge , where a Thomas Grumbold ( d . |
3 | I agree that in hindsight it could have been clearer |
4 | And it has been revealed that if the flames had spread to gas lines in the science block at Dyke House School in Hartlepool it could have been a lot worse . |
5 | This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend . |
6 | Cabinet was to be asked to look at the probable growth in the economy , and the amount of tax revenue it wished to generate , and then decide what in total it could afford to spend . |
7 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
8 | It is difficult to see how at that point in history it could have been otherwise . |