Example sentences of "all could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cinema was bereft of carpets and we all could hear , for what seemed an eternity , was the doleful roll of each Malteser down the incline to its nemesis beneath the feet of the people in the front row . |
| 2 | Not all could , or would , do this but , even if they did , the problem that patients might choose the type of food because of habit rather than careful deliberation still exists . |
| 3 | Congressional leaders were set to meet the president on January 3rd , perhaps to find a course on which all could agree . |
| 4 | The third row followed suit and before long enough people were laughing and questioning that Beecher raised his hand and told the story so that all could hear . |
| 5 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 6 | Hoare found buyers for nearly half the stake on Tuesday — but institutions agreed to take shares only on condition that all could be placed . |
| 7 | Technically all could be done by voluntary workers with the possible exception of ( arranging ) Weekend Schools . |
| 8 | As he whispered , Donald 's resonant , trained voice repeated each sentence after him so that all could hear , from the Macleans of Morvern and Coll and the seven other members of the Clan Council away past the tacksmen and subtenants to the farthest cottar on the damp sand . |
| 9 | He faced the crowd , and he raised his voice so that all could hear . |
| 10 | Each line had its speciality ; it might comprise exceptionally small girls , or very tall ones , or talented acrobats , but whatever the speciality , all could sing and dance . |
| 11 | In the USA a much later counterpart of the SCONUL Tape-Slide Group was the Co-operative Library Media Group , an informal organization of instruction librarians attempting ‘ to serve as a stimulant to the production of audio-visual materials we all could share in teaching library use ’ . |
| 12 | And indeed Rab should n't for , in mortal danger , that all could see but him , he began to laugh . |
| 13 | As the other tourists sipped port by the river and watched the sunset , following our currency episode earlier in the day and failure to find an open bank we had to count out our escudos , only to find that we all could afford were a couple of beers . |
| 14 | She was beginning to speak more loudly , so that all could hear . |
| 15 | I watched in disbelief as the Con-Sec paid her , counting out the notes and thumbing them from a pile on to the table in front of her so that all could witness his honesty . |
| 16 | All could be turned over except that by the stair opening and at the end of the canopy . |
| 17 | We passed along slowly so that the cortège could be seen and all could have a last look at the coffin . |
| 18 | A mistake now and all could be lost . ’ |
| 19 | Britain desperately needed a government to create the climate where all could succeed . |
| 20 | Blacks , gays , lesbians , the disabled and other disadvantaged people — all could join in demonstrating how the new thinking could be combined with commercial success . |
| 21 | All could take a leaf out of the book of Grant Fox , who performances for New Zealand were the result of constant practice at all the basics . |
| 22 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 23 | One thrust of this revolt displayed itself in a widespread attachment to the established church of the pre-1625 period , with its more relaxed doctrinal approach that was able to accommodate the beliefs of Richard Hooker as well as those of the compilers of the Lambeth Articles ; the other took the form of the ‘ left-wing Arminianism ’ of radical groups such as the General Baptists and Quakers , who rejected the rigidities of predestination in favour of the belief that all could attain salvation , and who , it is argued , won much popular support as a consequence . |
| 24 | During the 1650s , the Cambridge Platonists , a group of academics centred on Emmanuel College , Cambridge , who included within their number Henry More , Ralph Cudworth , and Benjamin Whichcote , continued to advocate a non-dogmatic , liberal , and rationalistic version of Anglicanism , and sought to bring about greater unity among English Protestants by emphasizing the core of belief upon which all could agree . |
| 25 | All could agree on the need to secure appropriate action from parliament and government , but how far this required agitation of mass support at different times and how much deference should be paid to the judgement and tactics of parliamentary abolitionists were points of tension both early and late within antislavery . |
| 26 | Lord John had behaved badly this night , but he knew that all could be repaired , all won , and all made good , and all for a girl of winsome , heart-breaking beauty . |
| 27 | Nine people died from infectious diseases in the district last year , said Miss Pattinson , although not all could be attributed to food poisoning . |
| 28 | He met and struck a rapport with Brian Stoddart , academic historical adviser on the mini-series , who became his co-author on Cricket and Empire : ‘ We had new information , and above all could place the incident in its broader social , political and historical context . |
| 29 | But the eyewitness who reported the scene noted that all could see from his face that he was greatly irritated by the French counsellor who had attempted to alter the terms of his homage and exact a fealty oath . |
| 30 | In any case , if such a qualification is called for it is hard to see how a creature with no rationality at all could possess it . |