Example sentences of "they could [adv] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do children live in separate houses , they often move many miles from their parents in order to follow work or careers , and the mutual support they could formerly give each other has been accordingly diminished . |
| 2 | The Ejner Handberg books are available from Stobart Davis , Priory House , Priory Street , Hertford SG14 1RN — and they could probably obtain other books on demand . |
| 3 | They could even bring major states to the brink of war . |
| 4 | ‘ They both might be fit for Saturday and , even though they will not have had a reserve team match , they could well come straight back into the squad , ’ he added . |
| 5 | They could also match political neutrality with economic autarky as a means to maintaining the autonomy of the state and its immunity to external pressures . |
| 6 | They could also miss next Sunday 's visit of third division leaders Ryedale-York to Naughton Park in their Regal Trophy first round tie . |
| 7 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 8 | When the two sides had carefully sounded each other out , and all parties had ordered two rounds of drinks , they had what the agent called ‘ a very in-depth substantive discussion about very sensitive material ’ , which grew louder and louder as the band did ; in the end they could scarcely hear each other when they leaned across the table and shouted . |
| 9 | When a Russian sub surfaced it would be paint-bombed by US helicopters : ‘ From the colours they could then track each submarine on their satellites . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps they could now get each episode of Eldorado down to that length . |
| 11 | Several of them came to London in order to discuss the possibilities of an armistice and ultimately of peace , but they could only meet junior officials from the Foreign Office and absolutely nothing transpired . |
| 12 | The Conservatives faced strong opposition within their own ranks to any major changes in boundaries : they could only contain this opposition by their readiness to accept detailed amendments throughout the process . |
| 13 | When Soviet doctors carried out the autopsy on Hitler 's partially burned body they could only find one testicle , lending credence to the popular wartime ditty that the German dictator was indeed deficient in this intimate area . |
| 14 | It was always going to be a difficult fixture for lowly Millmead Reserves against high-fliers Shottermill Reserves , and the visitors ' hopes were totally dashed at the start when they could only field nine men . |
| 15 | I think it may be it may be that they could perhaps get more money if the local parties affiliated separately but |
| 16 | As for Mr Hussein 's chemical weapons , they could still inflict horrible injuries on the allies if they are used . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |
| 18 | There was a group of children in our sample who either because they could still remember harsh treatment at the hands of a parent , or because their parents had themselves ceased contact , deserted them , or showed no interest in them , had no desire to meet the parents or maintain a link . |
| 19 | In fact this small War Cabinet had to consult the full Cabinet at all the big decisions , like sending the task force , the landing at San Carlos , before they could actually take any decisions to move in , and … this was a restoration of almost nineteenth-century Cabinet government . |
| 20 | Sometimes I thought they could actually see these people , as they talked . |
| 21 | They could sometimes persuade those allies to attack or threaten people closer to home with whom the family was prescriptively at peace , actually in direct and continual competition ( Peters , 1967 ) . |
| 22 | Surely he must feel something for her , otherwise they could never create such magic ? |
| 23 | Kaszubian farmers felt that they could never raise enough money to compete with both the Poles and the Prussian Colonisation Commission for good quality land , and thus stood no real chance of ever turning their smallholdings into profitable concerns . |
| 24 | In the cold dawn , with the wind pushing them so that they could hardly face each other , the King and his wife met on the slope above the battered hall . |