Example sentences of "[be] [adj] they could " in BNC.
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| 31 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 32 | While , understandably , this mild recommendation was all they could make in the circumstances , there is no disguising the fact that , for the next five years at least , non-advanced further education in Wales badly needs the infusion of more resources . |
| 33 | ‘ It was too late to postpone the wedding , I suppose ? ’ said Clare , thinking that in reason this was all they could have done . |
| 34 | Far from not knowing what she was doing her staff discovered it was all they could do to keep up with her . |
| 35 | ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future . |
| 36 | But a 25th minute penalty from Fry was all they could manage in scoring terms . |
| 37 | did n't , we do n't know why ’ was all they could offer . |
| 38 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 39 | It will be a whole lot clearer to you then , but it 's there basically because it was asked for , it 's inadequate because that was all they could do on the day , having been instructed to provide it . |
| 40 | As far as Henry was concerned they could fill the whole thing in with concrete . |
| 41 | As far as Jenna was concerned they could all band together and explode . |
| 42 | It might have been said that since one representative was absent they could not do anything about it , but the fact of the matter is they plainly had come to their decision the day before . |