Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we could " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always tried in ICI to offer people jobs elsewhere in the company whenever we could . |
| 2 | The battledress trousers were inclined to go baggy and the uniform jacket was a bit severe , so whenever we could get away with it we wore the other two items , and tended to let our hair float over our collars — also banned . |
| 3 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 4 | We tried to keep about a mile in front of the runners , grabbing photographs whenever we could , but it was n't easy . |
| 5 | We went whenever we could in foursomes … |
| 6 | ‘ So we decided we 'd just get together whenever we could , and it was wonderful , like a miracle . |
| 7 | Now , we talked about attention as being a process whereby we could explain how it is that , with all the information that we receive , or our senses receive , that we only process part of it , and we saw that within the information processing model . |
| 8 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 9 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 10 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 11 | How we could get a message through about the boy here . |
| 12 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 13 | In Australia , the spokesman said , ‘ it was difficult to see how we could get to a position of influence in the market without spending a lot of money . ’ |
| 14 | We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt . |
| 15 | On the one hand we can imagine how we might go about pre-wiring a Cartesian map , and how we could then encode the instructions by which the information to fill the map should be gathered , stored , and used . |
| 16 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 17 | Every time we talked about Jamila running away from home , where she could go and how we could get money to help her survive , she said , ‘ What about my mother ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |
| 19 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 20 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 21 | I suggested some simple exercises , to be done without knitting on the machine , that showed what effect the tuck and slip controls had on the needles and how we could set the carriages to slip or tuck in one direction and knit in the other . |
| 22 | ‘ I know how we could settle this , ’ said one of the girls . |
| 23 | It is hard to see how we could know this truth , or even understand what is meant by it , unless we were acquainted with something which we call ‘ I ’ … |
| 24 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 25 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 26 | Our study design explains how we could detect a significant difference in urinary albumin excretion between two treatments in a small number of subjects for a short period of time : monthly measurements over 12 months increased the precision and consequently the power of our trial . |
| 27 | In philosophy , ‘ realism ’ ( usually with a small ‘ r ’ ) is broadly the view that whether a thing exists is a question about the world independent of questions about how we could know it or what statements concerning the thing mean . |
| 28 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |
| 29 | And I learnt how we could organize to improve our conditions through sharing as a community . |
| 30 | This chapter examines reasons for using video in language teaching and considers when and how we could introduce it into the syllabus and into the lesson . |