Example sentences of "they could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 2 | The two of them could even end up working together against Lachlan . |
| 3 | The others — none of them could even ride a donkey , only Nutty … but now they sit there , knees in , heels down , on the bit — ’ |
| 4 | Though they can not detain us here , an examination of them could well be a step towards dispelling them for ever . |
| 5 | The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground . |
| 6 | One , or both , of them could easily have opted to give Daine a hot lead push and taken the operation over . |
| 7 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 8 | The Department of Justice also published the names of 787 people granted indemnity for leaving the country without authority , although it was not clear how many of them could still be liable for prosecution for other offences . |
| 9 | Any one of them could still deny Opel the title but it wo n't happen — not if Ulster engineering skills prove to be the deciding factor . |
| 10 | But , with the Great War looming , the future will be harsher than any of them could ever expect … |
| 11 | While the films were being made , they represented the most important work any of them could ever . |
| 12 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 13 | The lights in the Worm became brighter and all three of them could now see more clearly . |
| 14 | This meant that West European currencies when paid to non-Western Europeans for goods and services imported from them could now be freely converted . |
| 15 | Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining : these were the rules of the game , and the two of them could only be patient . |
| 16 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 17 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 18 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |
| 19 | The value of this work can be assessed by the fact that of 2,000 parts which may be needed for the repair of a bomber , 1,000 of them could often be obtained from such recoveries . |
| 20 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 21 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 22 | Despite the bitter weather they strolled slowly along the Riva degli Schiavoni as though neither of them could quite bear the thought of the evening 's ending . |
| 23 | Her expression hovered , as Derek suspected his own did , on the brink of admitting what neither of them could quite believe . |
| 24 | Only the priests remained , and the Colonel and the Factor and none of them could really be asked . |
| 25 | Now however Ludens had stepped for a moment inside the charmed circle , and things between them could never be the same again . |
| 26 | Whether skilled or unskilled , the vast majority of fathers of brides in the sample were engaged in manual trades ( 110 of the 161 ) , and most of them could safely be assumed to be skilled workers . |
| 27 | And so although they were still the opposition , they could rarely be classified as ‘ real prigs ’ . |
| 28 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 29 | They could comfortably have accommodated Shostakovich 's other ‘ happy ’ Symphony ( No. 9 ) , particularly if these two releases are the fist in a complete cycle . |
| 30 | It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services . |