Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] we could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly we could 've or we could accept the status quo and and do what the county council 's suggesting . |
| 2 | If you look at the range now available , they suggest that we could use video for these purposes : |
| 3 | Some writers ( e.g. Maslow ) in the sixties and seventies proposed that we could rank these needs into a hierarchy and predict the order in which individuals would try to satisfy their ‘ needs ’ . |
| 4 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 5 | Out in the street Marshall said : ‘ If that piece of paper is what it looks like we could have found the killer . ’ |
| 6 | Well he looks like we could play at ours the day before and can borrow Doug 's |
| 7 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 8 | At one point we did n't even know if we could record the thing at all . ’ |
| 9 | Do n't know if we could hold them to , to it . |
| 10 | Even if the costs were entirely comparable , what kinds of things would we want to know before we could judge the performance of secondary education ? |
| 11 | We were not inundated with offers for the company from the private sector and our financial advisers doubted whether we could sell the business at all . |
| 12 | So do you think that we could put our differences aside for just one evening ? |
| 13 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 14 | You agreed that we could try for the purposes of this program to find out what we could about your criminal record and also about your health records . |
| 15 | Which seem to me re re re re reasonable to be suggesting that we could lobby government , in order to say that , people with special training needs ca n't be included within the whole of the hundred per cent linked output related funding , be because the issue is that then , er they do have special training , and that 's that that 's the justification for them , that particular group . |
| 16 | Erm , in suggesting that we could use Mr 's papers as a basis for dis Mr 's order of priorities . |
| 17 | We finally realised that we could avoid even that embarrassment by giving ourselves breathing space . |
| 18 | Starting out to research the topic of women , power and politics , Margaret Stacey and I soon realised that we could rely on little in the way of help from traditional approaches to the study of politics . |
| 19 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 20 | We thanked him and as we were leaving he added that we could leave all the press arrangements to him . |
| 21 | We recognised that we could export technology and managerial skills internationally … |
| 22 | Parker says unequivocally that the future of the mainframe lies with Open Edition MVS , but he says that we could see a new generation of mainframe-class systems based on multiple RISC processors , again based on a similar idea to the SP-1 and that this will be the natural place for AIX . |
| 23 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 24 | But erm she said she has said that we could do this and she said that 's fine , she said . |
| 25 | When the yard closed we began to wonder if we could use the Worm in some way , and when Sakata opened we began to realize how . |
| 26 | ‘ This team will improve and we could expect to finish round about eighth in the Premier League without buying a player . ’ |
| 27 | This provided us with an opportunity to investigate the whales to see if we could discover anything about them that might explain why they had beached themselves . |
| 28 | As soon as I received them I rang Rod Aspinwall to see if we could travel down together . |
| 29 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 30 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |