Example sentences of "that they could make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 2 | The Bishop of Ely claimed Benwick as part of his chase : they had been met by the bishop 's bailiff , leading three priests in full vestments , with Bible , cross and candle , ‘ so that they could make no inquest there that day ’ . |
| 3 | Veterinarians indicated that they could make significant use of videos to demonstrate a gradual deterioration in health and how animals reacted and behaved when suffering certain illnesses . |
| 4 | She had never imagined wearing clothes like this , or that they could make such a difference . |
| 5 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 6 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 7 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 8 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 9 | And I instanced Bob Geldof as someone whose commitment to the problem of hunger had certainly got things done , and inspired millions of people to see ( even if only transiently ) that they could make a contribution to a problem that they had previously held in their minds , albeit not very consciously , as ‘ not mine ’ and ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 10 | While the King found it convenient to have a source of income that Parliament could not touch or question , people in England did not reckon the advantages of colonies in terms of the grants of revenue that they could make . |
| 11 | The Americans ' belief that they could make it ‘ lives on the streets of America today ’ . |
| 12 | Their belief that they could make it , be proud of themselves , and of their nation , lives on the streets , schools and corporations of America today . |
| 13 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 14 | But , in the main , the teachers were well satisfied that they could make the new arrangements work to the advantage of the students . |
| 15 | I am confident that they could make the streets of South Yorkshire safer if they could expand their manpower levels just that little bit more , but within the scope of the present standard spending assessment . |
| 16 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 17 | Maxim just wanted to know where the battle lines now stood so that they could make new plans . |
| 18 | There the government even lent ceremonial costumes from the treasury to poor members of the tsar 's council , the boyarskaya duma , so that they could make a suitably impressive show when an envoy from the west was officially received in Moscow . |
| 19 | This is closely linked to their passivity : it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world . |