Example sentences of "[prep] europe could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , at one point , I believe I came into the smoking room and heard one of the gentlemen saying : ‘ The fate of Europe could actually hang on our ability to bring Dupont round on this point . ’ |
| 2 | If the warring nations of Europe could be persuaded to abandon their dreams of victory , then there was some hope the peace they negotiated would be a just and lasting one . |
| 3 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 4 | As many a parent on the mainland of Europe could observe , legislation can not force co-operation , neither can it create harmony in school . |
| 5 | The rest of Europe could at this time show little lute music comparable with that of the Spanish and Italian lutenists . |
| 6 | The aristocracies which ruled so much of Europe could still see themselves even in 1914 as in some sense parts of a social order which transcended national boundaries . |
| 7 | Later that year McNamara pressed for a conventional build-up by all the members of Nato so that a Warsaw Pact attack in the heart of Europe could be resisted long enough ( without recourse to nuclear weapons ) to persuade the USSR of the gravity of the situation and to encourage it to negotiate . |
| 8 | But there is no reason to think that airlines based in Europe could not compete in this expanded transatlantic market . |
| 9 | However , coupled with a European high-speed rail network , owned by an EC track authority with both national and private operators running trains on it , the high-speed travel market in Europe could well come as close to perfect contestability as anything . |
| 10 | Post-war America was in favour of a united Europe to stand more firmly against the Soviet Union , and successive American administrations grew irritable with the Europeans for failing to believe that unity in Europe could be as simple as it was in America . |
| 11 | Napoleon was to find that the best roads in Europe could not create a European market . |
| 12 | The two sons she 'd reared had left home , and even being married to one of the richest men in Europe could n't compensate . |
| 13 | A rave festival that 's being billed as the biggest in Europe could , police believe , end in disaster . |
| 14 | Investment in Europe could also rise if the yen stays strong , since the yen 's appreciation has been greatest against European currencies , Robert Feldman , economist at Salomon Brothers Asia , said . |
| 15 | Many in France saw it as a route by which French prestige and French leadership within Europe could be restored . |
| 16 | In 1989 and 1990 America 's goals for Europe could be simply stated . |
| 17 | If economic catastrophe is added to the political disintegration , the consequences for Europe could be dire , not only in terms of the millions of refugees who are already predicted , but possibly through the sale of nuclear weapons to any body of people or any Government in the third world or elsewhere who have the hard currency to pay for them . |
| 18 | Moscow resented being excluded from the post-war occupation of Japan for example , whilst Washington was disturbed at the Communist victory in China in 1949 , and in June 1950 the invasion of pro-Western South Korea by the Communist North dramatically demonstrated that Cold War tensions outside Europe could have a major impact within Europe . |
| 19 | Its policy on Europe could best be described as jerking from one extreme to another within a few years , at one moment leaving the European Community altogether and in the next being willing to sign up to anything for which the EC asks ; at one moment supporting the closed shop and in the next denigrating it . |
| 20 | The EC rightly saw that with France and Italy moving towards electronic toll collection to save labour , and the Netherlands moving towards road pricing to deal with congestion , drivers travelling around Europe could be faced with having to plaster numerous different black boxes all over their windscreens . |