Example sentences of "[noun pl] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genetic engineering has reached a point of such sophistication that there are clear benefits to be gained by releasing from the laboratory living organisms upon which have been conferred characteristics they could never have acquired through the normal processes of evolution or selective breeding . |
| 2 | In their handling characteristics they could scarcely be more different . |
| 3 | Moore , indeed , dismisses as incoherent the idea that the parts of a thing may have characteristics they could not have had apart from that whole . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I would think som someone a little unsteady coming down those steps they could be a bit dodgy . |
| 6 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 7 | The Immigration people were being very nice about it , but with the stringent new visa regulations for Indians and Tamils they could not let a couple of whites in without ceremony . |
| 8 | The former were patient , they set small goals they could meet , stuck to their personally-devised diet plans and took regular exercise . |
| 9 | Mayer Amschel Rothschild built Mentmore , Alfred Rothschild built Halton House , Lionel Rothschild rebuilt Tring , and Ferdinand built Waddesdon , all on the most spectacular scale and in the wildest styles they could muster . |
| 10 | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary ( see p. 115 ) to totally submerge . |
| 11 | Indirect Rulers ranked self-respect above all the other blessings they could bestow , wealth , health , and the conveniences of modern life paling by comparison , if they were not actually to be regarded as injurious . |
| 12 | Shortly after , Roman troops ran amok in Jerusalem , murdering all Jews they could find , including women and children . |
| 13 | ‘ They were wiping out all the Jews they could find . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ford 's Options scheme has given tens of thousands of motorists new cars they could not otherwise afford . |
| 16 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 17 | She did n't thank them , but she did start using it , and perhaps that was all the thanks they could expect . |
| 18 | They visited all the factories and shops they could squeeze into their brief , allotted time and the highlight of their visit was a Silver Anniversary Ball when 700 people gathered at the leisure centre near Deeside , Queensferry . |
| 19 | In other words they could overcome the debilitating impact of high unemployment and the government 's attempts it deflation which had clearly weakened the trade union movement 's powers of resistance during the early 1920s . |
| 20 | Midnight moved restlessly , muttering in words they could n't understand . |
| 21 | It , in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties , must be one of the best subjects they could ever conceive of going into because the whole of the future of modern civilization depends on chemistry . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At drama school I 'd get the roles they could n't cast . |
| 24 | When Izzie came out , hearing voices , she found them drawing tally marks in the dust , counting up the number of different roles they could play between them . |
| 25 | They forgot briefly that they were having a fight ; instead they had a happy half-hour of fantasy about what books they could write and read and live with . |
| 26 | In Welshpool they halted to rest , and make good what losses they could , to dry out their arms and reflight their arrows ; and there was a brief council of war . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | See the first week I went to these schools they could n't speak a word of Punjabi . |
| 29 | The regiment worked in four-man modules , each man having a special skill ( i.e. explosives or navigation ) , and officers and men had the same training , so that in the event of casualties they could be virtually interchangeable . |
| 30 | The villagers then , seeing they had no defence anywhere , rushed indoors and put up what pathetic barriers they could . |