Example sentences of "[coord] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another solution is to dig a hole in the garden , place the bowls in this , and cover them with a thick layer of leaf mould , peat or peat substitute , but the bowls must have drainage holes or they could become waterlogged during heavy rainfall . |
| 2 | They could strike west and try to cut off Gonder , another heavily-fortified garrison , or they could try to continue rolling south towards the capital . |
| 3 | Or they could convert their debt into new guaranteed bonds whose yield was just 6.5% . |
| 4 | Or they could keep their old loans but with new guarantees , at the same time providing new money worth 25% of their exposure 's value . |
| 5 | They could be professional managers or they could be doctors or nurses . |
| 6 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 7 | The partners could then decide to sell it and divide the cash or they could decide to continue to the next stage of association ( called al-nusf , ‘ halves ’ ) . |
| 8 | They could let conditions worsen ; or they could move power back to national government ; or they could re-organise the electoral boundaries so that the irresponsible Left loses its tight inner urban constituencies ; or they could push power out beyond local government and into the hands of the people whom it is elected to serve . |
| 9 | They could let conditions worsen ; or they could move power back to national government ; or they could re-organise the electoral boundaries so that the irresponsible Left loses its tight inner urban constituencies ; or they could push power out beyond local government and into the hands of the people whom it is elected to serve . |
| 10 | They could let conditions worsen ; or they could move power back to national government ; or they could re-organise the electoral boundaries so that the irresponsible Left loses its tight inner urban constituencies ; or they could push power out beyond local government and into the hands of the people whom it is elected to serve . |
| 11 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 12 | Or they could have sold that controlling interest to someone else — heaven help us ! |
| 13 | Absenteeism and drop-outs among adults were increasingly common because , as teachers in this school pointed out , either they were too busy working to earn enough to live on , or they could n't afford to buy paper and other materials . |
| 14 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 15 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 16 | Or they could mill it by hand . |
| 17 | Or they could join the fair folk . |
| 18 | Or they could return to election by MPs alone , a system belatedly accepted by the Tories , in place of their former Magic Circle . |
| 19 | They could discharge the case if they were convinced that there were no grounds by the disputing party , or they could take the case to the Sheriff Court for a proof hearing . |
| 20 | ‘ Or they could be altogether more spiritual and personal . |
| 21 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 22 | These unperceived universes could be totally separate from ours , or they could be intimately intermingled with it . |
| 23 | Or they could be afraid of the implications girls ' work might have for their own work . |
| 24 | The logical objects might be components of the presentation structure of the document , such as section headings , or they could be objects that relate to the topic of the document , e.g. book titles that are referenced in the document , part numbers , or , in a document about programming , variable names . |
| 25 | Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it . |
| 26 | They could either resist by rejecting dominant models of femininity — by dressing down and by going out like boys , for example — or they could use their femininity as an oppositional weight at school — by wearing make-up and clothes which were forbidden , for example . |
| 27 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 28 | Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner . |
| 29 | They could involve matching a variety of situations or uses to a list of products or a list of items using those products ; they could involve putting the benefits of the product in order of merit or they could take the form of a question and answer quiz with specified answers from which to choose . |
| 30 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |