Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] could [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 2 | On the EDC Mendès-France at first followed the route of his predecessors , seeking to persuade Britain to reconsider its refusal to join the EDC , and arguing with his partners for a dilution of the supranational element in the proposed structure , especially where it could affect the French military contribution . |
| 3 | He sa he 's just discovered everybody 's gon na be colouring in so you could see the deterioration in the wi |
| 4 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 5 | We worked alone so that we could choose the good weather on my off duty days , but the communal gangs were no fair weather workers and pressed on under any conditions . |
| 6 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 7 | My boss had arranged that Ken Billings should postpone his calf feeding till we got there so that we could witness the process . |
| 8 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 9 | ‘ D' you imagine that some day someone will invent a gramophone that will play a record with a whole opera on one side , so that we could put the prelude on with the soup and have the finale with our cheese without having to get up ? ’ |
| 10 | So that we could keep the bloody team together over the next few years . |
| 11 | When the first stones hurtled towards the boar , it lunged forward , its head rising clear above the water so that we could see the downward curve of its tusks , the bead-like eyes wild with terror . |
| 12 | We sought to find out what these were so that we could consider the points raised and respond to them . |
| 13 | So we evolved a brilliant idea of hiding a brush in an old tree at the end of the dyke so that we could brush the dirt off afore we got there . |
| 14 | Early explorers traded directly with Indians for furs , but the white trappers eventually evicted the native Americans so that they could control the precious resource themselves . |
| 15 | So that they could miss the last one ? |
| 16 | So , as part of the briefing process , Orpington employees and their families were taken on day trip coach tours to Stevenage so that they could visit the site where the new offices were being built and look at the types of houses and facilities available in the area . |
| 17 | They also gave them general intelligence tests so that they could exclude the effects of variations in intelligence . |
| 18 | And this helped them to pay for knocking down and putting up walls so that they could move the bathroom to a lovely sunny spot off the main upstairs landing . |
| 19 | She had only a squatter 's title to the land , but after her death this was legally registered in her name by the local authority , and it was sold so that they could recover the money which she owed them . " |
| 20 | In the existing conditions of financial crisis , it was essential for a government to be formed which could ensure a parliamentary majority in support of the economy measures so that they could pass the Commons . |
| 21 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 22 | When I was around eight years old in the Forties , a film crew persuaded me to steal a biscuit at teatime so that they could film the incident . |
| 23 | He knew he was forcing his two sons into loveless marriages with the Costello sisters so that they could gain the Costello acres . |
| 24 | I also asked whether he would be giving his information to the police so that they could catch the criminals . |
| 25 | If complete public openness is the policy , it might have been expected that the public would have free access to governors ' meetings so that they could hear the arguments for policy and resource allocations within the school . |
| 26 | The title dates back many centuries to the days when the Speaker was the King 's representative in parliament and when MPs wanted to debate raising money they formed themselves into a committee with an MP in the chair so that they could discuss the subject away from the prying ears of the Palace . |
| 27 | The title dates back many centuries to the days when the Speaker was the King 's representative in parliament and when MPs wanted to debate raising money they formed themselves into a committee with an MP in the chair so that they could discuss the subject away from the prying ears of the Palace . |
| 28 | Inside , the blaze was already fierce , fanned by the high wind , the heat building up so that they could see the metal beginning to glow . |
| 29 | It is a sign of the nervousness around Europe that when the Irish asked a week ago for the treaty negotiations to be reopened so that they could amend the abortion protocol , other countries reacted with horror . |
| 30 | They expected to make their profit by pushing the price of the shares up , so that they could buy the government bonds for a relatively small number of shares . |