Example sentences of "the [noun pl] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | One summer 's day in 1992 saw local schoolchildren doing field studies here , counting all the invertebrates they could find in one-metre squares of meadow . |
| 2 | But the employment open to children and the age and the hours they could work were curtailed by legislation throughout the nineteenth century , beginning with the 1833 Factory Act . |
| 3 | Last year the company lost £30,000 worth of fish bound for the Spanish market when the consignment was blocked for three days outside Toulouse by French lorry drivers protesting about restrictions on the hours they could drive . |
| 4 | Even videos , a medium Madness exploited with hyper-active aplomb , did n't reap the rewards they could have done because no-one had invented MTV or The Chart Show . |
| 5 | but she thinks there could be a lot of improvement around college like the mobiles they could be in better condition . |
| 6 | It 's true that there are plenty of YDO 's , but without the help of teachers in the schools they could fighting a losing battle to take advantage of the favourite publicity emanating from the World Cup . |
| 7 | The importance of the morality organisations lay not so much in their mass membership as in the specific influence they could demonstrate in moments of crises , the forces they could mobilise , the pressures they could bring to bear , the ears they could bend , the opportunities they could seize , and here conjunctural political factors played an important part . |
| 8 | The importance of the morality organisations lay not so much in their mass membership as in the specific influence they could demonstrate in moments of crises , the forces they could mobilise , the pressures they could bring to bear , the ears they could bend , the opportunities they could seize , and here conjunctural political factors played an important part . |
| 9 | At drama school I 'd get the roles they could n't cast . |
| 10 | She did n't thank them , but she did start using it , and perhaps that was all the thanks they could expect . |
| 11 | ‘ They were wiping out all the Jews they could find . |
| 12 | The Germans were highly organized , she said , pushing the blue-and-white enamelled iron back and forth : they hunted up all the Jews they could find . |
| 13 | In the circumstances they could hardly refuse our request for a special audit — indeed , they appeared to welcome it , saying that although they were going through a difficult time they had nothing to hide , and were confident that the bank would wish to continue its support . " |
| 14 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 15 | Where they roughed out the areas they could cover , and possible sources of material . |
| 16 | When the parade finally came to an end , Sergeant-Major Philpott congratulated them all and before dismissing the parade told the troops they could take the rest of the day off , but they must return to barracks and be tucked up in bed before midnight . |
| 17 | Even with the optimism of the participants they could not expect to solve such a problem in four days . |
| 18 | When a Russian sub surfaced it would be paint-bombed by US helicopters : ‘ From the colours they could then track each submarine on their satellites . ’ |
| 19 | Asking people to match the colours they could recall with colours on a standard colour chart revealed that only about half the dreams contained colour , and many of these were in pastel shades . |
| 20 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 21 | He told the Britons they could look for nothing more , no money , no troops , no aid . |
| 22 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 23 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 24 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 25 | The things they could learn could damage their nature in its essence . |
| 26 | But that was er what was n knitted by the ladies and you can see , if you look at the patterns , what they did , once they 'd learnt their basic skills , were to copy the things they could see . |
| 27 | All the loveliness , all the things they could do , on the shore , in the water , exploring the heathland , and they sit above the road breathing in fumes with a plastic bottle for a plaything . |
| 28 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 29 | Exactly , the things they could of , stop inside people unless its , so you can never tell . |
| 30 | At home , women may have all the rights they could want on paper , but they often vanish in a cloud of prejudice when you try to put them into practice ! |