Example sentences of "or could [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grammar schools already had adequate facilities or could build them from scratch . |
| 2 | Techs who were expert in the Machine Mysteries , autonomous-minded slaves , administrators , ship crews — all the host of support staff for the Marine chapter — slept in modestly comfortable dormitories … assuming that they needed , or could avail themselves of modest comfort during sleep-time . |
| 3 | These various substantives evoke a state or quality which disposes the support to perform an action ( willingness , desire , impudence , ability , etc. ) , an action he performs which prevents or could prevent him from realizing it ( hesitation , refusal , reluctance , etc. ) , something he needs in order to realize it ( right , permission ) , a circumstance in which he finds himself which favours something 's occurrence ( chance , occasion ) , etc. — all of which evoke a situation existing before the infinitive event , and so imply a reference to a prior position of the support . |
| 4 | Most of this Greg felt he could ignore : either he had read it , or could read it in more convenient circumstances . |
| 5 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
| 6 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 7 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |