Example sentences of "what they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 2 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 3 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It would be better to ask young people to show what they could do against explicit criteria so that the challenge would be between the person and the task , not between individuals , with one person 's success being another 's failure , ’ the report says . |
| 5 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 6 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 7 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |
| 8 | They carried away what they could on their horses in the form of silver and pewter . |
| 9 | Heritage 's depositors just took what they could of their own money and ran . |
| 10 | Others did what they could to scrape by . |
| 11 | ‘ Circumstances , ’ Flora brushed that aside : ‘ what they could do , they did do — novels — Jane Austen , the Brontës , Virginia Woolf … . ’ |
| 12 | It was a hard act to follow , but the poor did what they could to provide respectable funerals for their dead . |
| 13 | Military privilege was undefined ; civilians did not know what an officer was entitled to , what they could safely refuse , what belonged to the armed forces , and what claims were backed only by an officer 's pretensions . |
| 14 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 15 | ‘ I phoned the president 's office and they said they would see what they could do to help . |
| 16 | ‘ BR just wanted to see what they could get away with , ’ said Mr Canford . |
| 17 | But resident tutors were much appreciated by the WEA : they were admirable colleagues for the tutor-organisers , doing what they could to help and advise the branches in their counties , and they had a particular responsibility for promoting Tutorial Classes . |
| 18 | Since paraprofessional social welfare personnel are an important resource for meeting people 's needs , one would assume that policy makers , social service administrators and professional social workers would view them in this light and would do what they could to support and develop this valuable resource . |
| 19 | Although it was a great coup for the KGB , once the pair got to Moscow it is hard to see what they could have told the Russians that was not already known or made any great difference to East-West relations . |
| 20 | The Westons retrieved what was left of their stock and headed for Bristol , where they sold what they could in the markets there . |
| 21 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 22 | It was his intention to shoot what they could , mostly the scenes involving Karloff because his were the only words Corman had written . |
| 23 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 24 | All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed . |
| 25 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 26 | Not only should parents pay when and what they could , and so inhibit the assumption of paternal responsibility by the State . |
| 27 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |
| 28 | Slowly , life returned to something like normal in the Straits , and the bewildered survivors were able to bury their dead , and salvage what they could of homes in towns and villages that had been swept by tsunamis and showered with ash . |
| 29 | If all of these subjects were studied at school in a ‘ generalist ’ manner , links being forged between one and another , then philosophy itself would greatly benefit , undergraduates at university would be the more ready to study it , and ultimately teachers at school would be better prepared to take what they could from philosophy , and apply it throughout the curriculum . |
| 30 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |