Example sentences of "they could [adv] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the bitter weather they strolled slowly along the Riva degli Schiavoni as though neither of them could quite bear the thought of the evening 's ending . |
| 2 | El e Elliel , Elliel said that er they could probably twist the council 's arm |
| 3 | First , they responded to much slower movements than the other group — so slow , in fact , that they could easily detect the motion of the sun or stars through the sky . |
| 4 | And because they have bigger appetites , they could eventually deplete the rivers ' resources , leaving them empty of salmon of any description . |
| 5 | The nature of the organisation and the staff it employs tends to lead to a greater commitment to any investigation and subsequent changes , particularly if it is felt that they could eventually benefit the residents . |
| 6 | The Asaimara were thereby convinced they could successfully defy the Government . |
| 7 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 8 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 9 | At all events the Treasury was opposed to new forms of central economic control ( or planning ) not least because they could well mean the loss of its own authority . |
| 10 | They could well imagine the panic that would now ensue at Russian military headquarters once it was realised that all their previous secrets had been lost . |
| 11 | There were , of course , grounds for taking it ; they could well argue the impossibility of continuing to give their loyalty and service to a monarch who was creating a totally new situation by failing in her fundamental duty of ruling her people . |
| 12 | ‘ They could just follow the truck ; after all the hijackers have to stop sometime . ’ |
| 13 | Except that the mattress had smelt musty , and that as they lay in bed through those long cold mornings they could just see the spire of the Congregational church through the window . |
| 14 | They could just see the Maggon Mountains to the West . |
| 15 | Because N may be either headlights or darkness they could also produce the sentence The darkness penetrated the headlights . |
| 16 | ( At this point he laughed as if at the absurdly self-evident nature of such a statement. ) ( 5 ) He indicated , very obliquely and with evident reluctance because of the company in which we were talking , that they could also discuss the activities of the Cuban revolution in other countries . |
| 17 | They could also see the inside of the hat . |
| 18 | In Russia they used to sell books , but it is now entirely possible that they could also sell the publishers . |
| 19 | Otherwise the darkness was intense and they could barely distinguish the ground at their feet . |
| 20 | So if the teacher wanted to find out about the courses they could either contact the University or their own organisations , erm the D E S or the , the Local Education Authority . |
| 21 | One of the great advantages was that instead of journalists having to plough through yards and yards of dusty cuttings , they could simply call the information they needed to screen . |
| 22 | He thought that they could simply close the doors and everything would be all right . |
| 23 | Octavia Hill , too , adopted the principle that her housing ventures must be self-supporting , and that the tenants should pay an economic rent ; she maintained that rate-aided housing might be a danger to poorer tenants , who would be in the position of having to contribute through the rates to council housing , when they could scarcely afford the rent for their own inferior accommodation . |
| 24 | They could already have the answers . ’ |
| 25 | Dealers who had flown in just for the sale were bitterly disappointed ( though they could privately view the works at Christie 's nonetheless ) , and the lavish , hard-bound catalogue became unobtainable overnight . |
| 26 | She said that she had had people come to her office in tears , not knowing how they could possibly meet the cost of a funeral . |
| 27 | They could almost hear the chink of glasses mixed with chatter and laughter . |
| 28 | Lighting engineers were happy to reduce lamp diameters from 38 mm to 26 mm , because they could then offer the customer 20 per cent more efficient use of electricity . |
| 29 | They could then analyse the data on their own computer : ‘ Auditing remotely saves money and time , which is otherwise wasted by constantly going back and forth' , he says . |
| 30 | They could only blame the coalition system . |