Example sentences of "could or could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 2 | And perhaps , occasionally , he was frustrated by what he could or could not achieve . |
| 3 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 4 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 5 | With luck the senior Girl would tell them precisely what they could or could not do , and when they had to return to the Club . |
| 6 | I have not felt it necessary to examine the detailed facts of all the earlier decisions or to consider whether the decisions themselves could or could not be supported . |
| 7 | He argued that the physical capabilities of the plant determined where it could or could not live , and studied the effects of various environmental factors , especially water , in determining the prevailing vegetation . |
| 8 | Moreover , in 1973 one deputy minister of foreign trade described the deficiencies in Soviet marketing as follows : ‘ While we were only beginning to understand that before entering the marketplace we had to study it , determining which machinery could or could not be supplied where , as well as how to organise the work involved , capitalist firms had already created a whole science to deal with the question , coordinating production , advertising and commercial activity into a single discipline ’ ( N. Smeliakov , Novy mir , 12 ( Dec. ) 1973 , 216–17 ) . |
| 9 | Laura acknowledged the need for hiring designers with their own ideas but rejected the need to be told by either accountants ( ‘ grey suits ’ as she termed them ) or shop managers what she could or could not sell . |
| 10 | A a subject to er th the I think my main objection to it would be that the lack of reference to cross-sections , which on you without knowledge of the ground could or could not be viable . |
| 11 | And I mean I would like to go offshore again , just to prove to myself whether I could or could not do it . |
| 12 | Confusion over what could or could not be reported arose , however , because of differences of interpretation among French , Saudi , UK and US officials in Saudi Arabia and in their respective capitals . |
| 13 | No one was going to tell her what she could or could n't do , or where she had to go . |