Example sentences of "that they could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 2 | Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target . |
| 3 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 4 | They were n't aware the were on that they could send them messages . |
| 5 | But provoking discussion among the trainees of some straightforward opening questions may reassure them that they could cope themselves , at least initially , with Sheila . |
| 6 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 7 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 8 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 9 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 10 | The Americans ' belief that they could make it ‘ lives on the streets of America today ’ . |
| 11 | Their belief that they could make it , be proud of themselves , and of their nation , lives on the streets , schools and corporations of America today . |
| 12 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 13 | They thought that they could wear her down . |
| 14 | Another option is to develop tests which could tell people if they were at risk of falling under a particular spell so that they could choose their pleasures wisely . |
| 15 | Rush is one of that group of people who coalesced in the early 70s and saw the signs that the tide might be moving in the right direction , and that they could influence its course . |
| 16 | If they proved that they could deliver what they promised , well and good . |
| 17 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 18 | The first group had taken up position in all the key intersections so that they could control anyone who attempted to pass . |
| 19 | They would have no direct control over such institutions except that they could pay them for particular services . |
| 20 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
| 21 | A week afterwards fascist youths instigated the so-called ‘ Mile End Road Pogrom ’ , when despite the presence of 2,000 special constables at a nearby communist victory rally , a gang of hooligans smashed windows of Jewish shops and houses and assaulted all those designated as Jews that they could lay their hands on . |
| 22 | And then writing back to this contact i either in New York or in Virginia or wherever it was , saying that it th they would give him the dimensions of the roof , that they could tell him exactly how many slates they 'd need to cover it . |
| 23 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 24 | Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies . |
| 25 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 26 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 27 | The alternative and desired emphasis of policy would be to provide more resources to parents caring for their children at home so that they could do their job better , and to reunite with their parents , wherever possible , those children who have been removed . |
| 28 | ( 4 ) The sales information , including the information about prices , was necessarily acquired by the defendants in order that they could do their work . |
| 29 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
| 30 | Knowing that she turned the peeping Toms on with her performances — and that they could do nothing about it as they sat there , transfixed by her sex and her flagrant use of it . |