Example sentences of "it [adv] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McRae and Cairncross ( 1984,2 ) argue that the growth of the City originated in the large volume of government borrowing in the eighteenth century to pay for Britain 's foreign wars ; the Industrial Revolution took place almost independently of the City , which thereby showed that it perhaps could survive on its financial wits as a major service centre . |
| 2 | It alone could authenticate documents with the Great Seal , which was in its custody , and issue orders that required full legal backing , such as grants of land , appointments to offices , and treaties with foreign powers . |
| 3 | Yet the development of the law of trusts had taken place within a period in which it alone could offer these advantages ; to them its rise owed much . |
| 4 | Hence , in the mouths of conservative lawyers , we catch an appeal to the radical doctrine of the sovereignty of the nation ; it alone could provide a theoretical basis for resistance to a French king whose claim was legally established by the formal abdication of both Ferdinand VII and his father . |
| 5 | It alone could safeguard them against disintegration and the disruptive effects of faction and provincial particularism . |
| 6 | It just could have been a lot better . |
| 7 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 8 | Well I do n't think it would give a burnt taste but I think , I think it probably could do quite a lot of good for it . |
| 9 | So try the Shaftesbury — it really could grow on you , especially the upstairs bar ! |
| 10 | If he had denied it there could have been some hope . |
| 11 | It too could end . |
| 12 | Many advantages would follow if it too could grow tall , but this would require a new technique for getting the male cell to the female . |
| 13 | ‘ Why , yes , it certainly could have been . |
| 14 | The BDDA has always had a weak link in that it never could command the necessary influential backing , financially and in personnel , to carry out its objects . |
| 15 | To go to the one man in the world most interested in seeing that the evidence never came out and then to put into his hands the means of ensuring that it never could come out ! |