Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] could [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly we could 've or we could accept the status quo and and do what the county council 's suggesting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 4 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge . |
| 5 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge from the current upheaval . |
| 6 | People would know that I could do the job . |
| 7 | She who could call a lame youth to her and support him with her invisible grace while he laid down his crutches on the steps of her altar , why doubt that she could turn the leaves of a Gospel , and guide a faithful finger to the words her will required ? |
| 8 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 9 | It was gratifying to know that she could feel the same as him . |
| 10 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 11 | with someone who 's nice , put it that way , I 'd almost definitely try , I 'd get the , say that they could have the giro today |
| 12 | Attfield and Duck ( 1982 ) found that they could reject the rational expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates when they applied the above model to three-monthly , five-yearly and ten-yearly rates of interest in the UK . |
| 13 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 14 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 15 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 16 | At one point we did n't even know if we could record the thing at all . ’ |
| 17 | He did not know if he could play the flute and he was afraid to try . |
| 18 | There was something he had to do , and he did n't know if he could find the courage . |
| 19 | Do n't know if I could do the electric one definitely Guess that 's about whether the I 'd like one of them , one of them and yeah but we do n't know when it can be delivered , so we ca n't do it that early you ca n't say yeah but but er we 'll let you know , well we can so it 's there that 's what we wish , they 'd the bills go and we 'll let you know when you can be the keys can be available for you to put it in . |
| 20 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 21 | I did n't wait until she could turn the full force of her disapproval on me . |
| 22 | The thinking behind the wolf plan was to discover if they could regulate the deer numbers and live in harmony with the rest of the island 's wildlife . |
| 23 | When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't . |
| 24 | Lawyer D's client ( the organisation ) wanted to know whether it could release the tenancy on the land without the consent of the surviving partner ( the son ) . |
| 25 | You see , the poor did n't know whether he could afford the contract or not . |
| 26 | Japanese scientists attempted to discover whether they could change the behaviour patterns of the troupe . |
| 27 | Before embarking on care proceedings a local authority should always consider whether it could improve the family situation sufficiently by the provision of services on a voluntary basis ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 3.11 ) . |
| 28 | Even if the costs were entirely comparable , what kinds of things would we want to know before we could judge the performance of secondary education ? |
| 29 | We were not inundated with offers for the company from the private sector and our financial advisers doubted whether we could sell the business at all . |
| 30 | Also he was worried about a model he had arranged to hire through Mauve , and then doubted whether he could pay the price . |