Example sentences of "[noun sg] we could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 2 | Theirs is the sort of Muddled thinking we could all use . |
| 3 | There are other principles of reasoning we could mention . |
| 4 | With the spring we could begin the long slow climb out of the recession . |
| 5 | Mother and I decided that in the interests of hygiene we could not take Father 's body into Chiguana , but must bury him where he lay . |
| 6 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 7 | Over the next months , rival consortia considered how to finance the new investment while at the Transport Department we could do little more than wait . |
| 8 | A corollary of the theory is that if only we were all experts at telepathy we could manage without language at all . |
| 9 | Just because John was a journalist we could n't expect special treatment . |
| 10 | In spite of the struggle Bomber Command endured and the casualties suffered , particularly in the first two years when the bombers did so badly , and the only positive result we could measure was the shocking number of losses in aircrew , we were squandering our seed-corn . |
| 11 | From our research we could do six shows . |
| 12 | Oh I erm found out what that brass instrument we could n't think of . |
| 13 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 14 | Well I found the twenty pound in the end but the fifty pound we could n't find it , we checked everything so i fortunately I said to I had them re-checked on Monday during the day for cash up |
| 15 | Perhaps President we could solve the problem by the T & G having theirs one year and us the next . |
| 16 | If we wished for a more restful effect we could use far less harmonic change , holding chords for several beats ( Example 35 ) : This shows how a broad area of melody can be accompanied by the same harmony . |
| 17 | I think the more people who are aware of the alternatives that are in the building industry we could improve on this . |
| 18 | Sitting up in the cold morning light we could have been sprayed by a fine grey snow as we slept — dust from the Kalahari which I can still smell in my clothes . |
| 19 | The moon was low upon our right , and in its light we could see the top of a hill . |
| 20 | If we had a boat we could row across to the island of a picture |
| 21 | Across the gap we could see , quite plainly , the buttress of the higher Dru , cut and slashed by cracks and ledges like the mark of Zoro — the infamous Z pitch . |
| 22 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 23 | In this study we could not show correlation between pathological scores or their distribution and any clinical parameter . |
| 24 | Even by daylight we could not tell who he was until Cadfael turned up the whole side of his face to the light . |
| 25 | So we concentrated on the pleasure we could get for nothing . |
| 26 | Sheila was in complete agreement with me on this subject , and the only disadvantage we could see to living in a barracks was having men in heavy boots walking about over your head . |
| 27 | With Oveissi we could have ended the whole thing . |
| 28 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 29 | ‘ We could share the driving and drive sedately through Germany , ’ she amended with a smirk of a glance to where Fabia was grinning , ‘ and once I 've done my interview we could make a holiday of it — stay longer , have a tour around . |
| 30 | As viewers of this scene we could also have deduced something about the relationship between John and Mary from the way they were sitting together and the way they looked at each other . |