Example sentences of "[subord] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As competition for tied houses became hotter from 1905 , with licensing magistrates actively closing down pubs and beerhouses , Hoare 's began grabbing up other brewery firms where they could . |
| 2 | The upstairs lighting circuit is laid out on the floor of the loft , taking care not to put it under any loft insulation ( where it could overheat ) , and not to put junction boxes where they could be damaged by careless feet . |
| 3 | When they disobeyed they were transformed into pillars of rock and placed where they could see each other but never meet . |
| 4 | He still feared polarisation and the creation of monochrome dioceses where clergy opposed to women priests would leave dioceses where they were ordained , and women ordinands and deacons would leave dioceses where they could not become priests . |
| 5 | Forrestal was a believer in the theory that it was too dangerous for atomic weapons to be manufactured and stored in the United Kingdom , where they could be overrun in a Soviet invasion of Western Europe . |
| 6 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 7 | If they could not exercise that power themselves , or count on the eastern empire to do it for them , then they would find it where they could . |
| 8 | Despite elaborate efforts by experts to blast and block underground conduits housing dangerous flows , to force them onto open ground higher up the 10,948-foot volcano , where they could cool and harden , the lava inexplicably broke onto the surface itself . |
| 9 | Miller must surely have taken the family on local botanising expeditions to Chelsea Heath , the large stretch of common land to the north of the Fulham Road , where they could search for plants important to the Physic Garden . |
| 10 | Even two of the farmhands rented a smallholding where they could grow vegetables and keep cows , pigs , and poultry ; while another was also a carter . |
| 11 | Whenever the conference adjourned , I noticed , as no doubt his lordship did with some concern , that Mr Lewis would quickly take M. Dupont away to some corner or other where they could confer quietly . |
| 12 | Probably no better than they should be , thieving and robbing at will , they were known as the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ ; Rannoch can be a misty place and the Macgregors would appear , take your goods and chattels , and anything else not nailed down , then disappear again , into the mists of Rannoch Moor where they could never be found . |
| 13 | They want to have an interesting or exciting time , a time that would not be boring , where they could create some action … |
| 14 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 15 | We knew the RAF , and Allied friends were seeking out the launching sites of these monstrosities , and wiping them out where they could . |
| 16 | However , because of the immense potential for the integrated ( ie raster/ASCII/vector ) systems that were under development , the point was made that the strategy could be to plan their eventual use for those functions where they could be of value . |
| 17 | It has been shown that most suicide attempters are aware of the existence of agencies where they could obtain help , such as the general practitioner , social workers , or the Samaritans ( Kreitman and Chowdhury 1973b ) ; in fact , a significant proportion of attempters had been in touch with one or more of these agencies in the weeks preceding the attempt ( Bancroft et al. 1977 ) . |
| 18 | Instead of tripping over their shoes while doing quick changes , each chair had pockets where they could thrust them out of the way . |
| 19 | Where they could not achieve this they introduced the fish Gambusia affinis , which eats mosquito larvae , and applied petroleum oils and Paris Green ( copper acetoarsenite ) as poisons . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Moreover , mothers may have encouraged children to play on the road surface where they could be seen from the kitchen window instead of on the grass at the front where they could not . |
| 22 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
| 23 | They did n't play loud ; they played where they could hear each other in the studio , and that natural leakage — as I learned later when I got into engineering — actually helped to blend the tonal quality . ’ |
| 24 | Craig : ‘ Yeah , but they had this element where they could write classic pop chart songs , and then again they could write ten minute mad songs as well . |
| 25 | The conclusions are obvious enough : that there was a tendency among some Victorians to have fewer children where they could arrange it that way , and that improved medical care , hygiene , sanitation and living conditions generally were improving life-expectancy and helping to eradicate infant deaths . |
| 26 | Ashore , Stan Weatherall and Peter Harris followed the general practice in a beach-head : lending a hand where they could . |
| 27 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 28 | There , if they maintained their resistance , they were frequently treated with great brutality and , in a few cases , threatened with posting to the front , where they could be summarily shot . |
| 29 | Some set up agricultural communities where they could take refuge from public contempt for ‘ conchies ’ and convince themselves that their experiments in communal living would , once ‘ the grim period of war is over … be remembered as the forerunner of the new society . ’ |
| 30 | Write down their good points and where they could improve . |