Example sentences of "they could [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , given that there might come a time when forces were available for deployment in the Middle East , it made sense for American diplomats to encourage what friends and allies they could to hold the line in the interval . |
| 2 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 3 | If they changed the name of the product they could monopolise the glue business in six months . |
| 4 | " Do you want me to send some men to Ireland — they could watch the ports , make some inquiries ? " |
| 5 | What is more , they could light the touch paper for a nuclear war in Europe |
| 6 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 7 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 8 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 9 | Early explorers traded directly with Indians for furs , but the white trappers eventually evicted the native Americans so that they could control the precious resource themselves . |
| 10 | In Council for Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service ( H. L. , 1984 ) the House of Lords went some way towards the view that they could control the way the prerogative was exercised . |
| 11 | Most Protestants want to return to the days of Stormont when they could control the internal policies in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 13 | She had only a squatter 's title to the land , but after her death this was legally registered in her name by the local authority , and it was sold so that they could recover the money which she owed them . " |
| 14 | And what if the request for attention conflicts with our own similar need , as in the incident we described in Chapter I under ‘ Babies and Bathwater ’ , where both partners were tired and needed recognition before they could meet the similar need in the other . |
| 15 | These social-work teachers may have a school base ; certainly they would have flexible hours in order that they could meet the needs of young people during times when schools were closed ( early evenings , long holidays ) . |
| 16 | And if they steer the Kansas City Chiefs to the great gridiron showdown in the Georgia Dome , Atlanta , next January , they could meet the symbol of Philadelphia Eagles foolishness , Reggie White . |
| 17 | And if they steer the Kansas City Chiefs to the great gridiron showdown in the Georgia Dome , Atlanta , next January , they could meet the symbol of Philadelphia Eagles foolishness , Reggie White . |
| 18 | From behind them , they could feel the wind driving in , wild and bitter cold , from the open sea . |
| 19 | They could feel the added chill from where they were standing . |
| 20 | Then it was screaming past , and they could feel the hot air and smell the smoke . |
| 21 | They could feel the chill of the water through the rubber of their Wellington boots . |
| 22 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 23 | This special facility , initially set up effective 1962 and enabling the 11 to lend reserves to the IMF , was designed to meet balance-of-payment problems so serious that they could threaten the stability of the entire international monetary system . |
| 24 | And this helped them to pay for knocking down and putting up walls so that they could move the bathroom to a lovely sunny spot off the main upstairs landing . |
| 25 | Once shorewards of the breakers they could interpret the relative quiet as deeper water , and swim shorewards to their sad suicides . |
| 26 | They could interpret the word law in a more pragmatic or policy oriented sense . |
| 27 | Er for example the ones that they fitted on the , the vertical boring mills , were round er in nature , bolted through the centre to a tool post and subsequently when they went into action , they were so hard you know , that they could outstrip the existing type of tip tool erm because the , the material itself stood up better to the cutting flow er er rather than the , the tip tool which was inclined to chip . |
| 28 | They also gave them general intelligence tests so that they could exclude the effects of variations in intelligence . |
| 29 | If they could ship the aircraft or individual parts to Carson City , Nevada , Bill would have his staff do the work necessary . |
| 30 | Those built by governments seem most commonly to have been placed where they could combine the functions of protecting the local population and housing the official who governed the area . |