Example sentences of "that they could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 2 | Why two such important Russian spies should have been placed in the same cell block so that they could freely meet and talk together is a mystery . |
| 3 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 4 | They were vertebrates that learned to live out of water paradoxically so that they could also continue to live in water . |
| 5 | In Russia they used to sell books , but it is now entirely possible that they could also sell the publishers . |
| 6 | ( At this point he laughed as if at the absurdly self-evident nature of such a statement. ) ( 5 ) He indicated , very obliquely and with evident reluctance because of the company in which we were talking , that they could also discuss the activities of the Cuban revolution in other countries . |
| 7 | Some countries choose to import food items that they could easily grow for themselves because they find it commercially advantageous to grow industrial raw materials for export and to import the food they need , which tends to be less costly relative to their exports . |
| 8 | I made the mistake of telling two non-hill-walking friends that they could easily manage Creag Meagaidh . |
| 9 | I know people mean well , but they should realise that they could easily offer a child fruit like an apple or a banana instead . |
| 10 | First , they responded to much slower movements than the other group — so slow , in fact , that they could easily detect the motion of the sun or stars through the sky . |
| 11 | There had been an almighty family row a fortnight before : Tristram had remarked that she was overworked and that they could easily afford a servant , and Harry had taken exception to the suggestion . |
| 12 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |
| 13 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 14 | During it , the workers had seen the managers run the station without their help and knew that they could again run it . |
| 15 | And they are something that they could probably do something about . |
| 16 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 17 | The health authority says that with more drugs misuse in society it is vital that drugs-related services and professionals are constantly updated on development and trends so that they could best help those in need . |
| 18 | Of course the increasing population in some countries is harming the progress that they could otherwise make on development issues . |
| 19 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 20 | These heavily tattooed men , now unemployed civilians , were so drunk for so long that they could barely talk or even sit up . |
| 21 | The Elves knew that they could barely spare a single warrior from their forces and yet they knew that if mankind failed then the forces of Chaos in the Old World would be free to aid the Dark Elves . |
| 22 | Heavy fat bluebottles , so gorged , stunned by the heat that they could barely fly . |
| 23 | The shelter curved well above his head so that they could both stand quite comfortably inside . |
| 24 | A magazine with the vision to run these two very different pieces in the same issue , in the knowledge that they could both appeal to the same reader , deserves applause . |
| 25 | The nature of the organisation and the staff it employs tends to lead to a greater commitment to any investigation and subsequent changes , particularly if it is felt that they could eventually benefit the residents . |
| 26 | Patients should be warned , however , that a preliminary colectomy does not absolutely exclude the fact that they could eventually prove to have Crohn 's disease . |
| 27 | They tried to reach the River Po , which they hoped to cross so that they could eventually get back to Germany . |
| 28 | He asked the US government for favourable trade concessions for Colombia , Peru and Bolivia in US internal markets in order that they could successfully develop and promote non-traditional exports . |
| 29 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 30 | He and his family would retire for a while from public gaze , so that they could privately give vent to their grief at the loss of that larger-than-life figure who had seemed immortal … |