Example sentences of "could [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easier to get your case accepted if you offer it as a collective decision : ‘ Something we could consider is … |
| 2 | erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong . |
| 3 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The least you could do is take the other end of the Chesterfield , ’ Amanda said crossly . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell you what though , mate , ’ and he was overtaken by another surge of enthusiasm , ‘ if you 're interested , what you could do is take a trip to Explorers Inn in the Tambopata Reserve , see the rainforest there … ’ |
| 6 | But the damage it could do is spurring the Gulf states into unprecedented efforts to protect their shallow , near-landlocked waters . |
| 7 | You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory . |
| 8 | One thing one thing we could do is erm reduce or not not photo-reduce but just cut out the middle of a sheet of the headed notepaper , then you get two two ha er two A five things but that way round . |
| 9 | The other thing , which I think is a , another great misconception is er our present Prime Ministers ' policy of having a classless society , well I think the first thing is you could do is actually abolish the House of Lords and that will certainly be a start on having a classless society in this country . |
| 10 | All one could do is predict the probabilities of different outcomes . |
| 11 | Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do . |
| 12 | if someone 's giving you a lift , what you could do is get them to drive straight down , drop you off , and then they can go and park . |
| 13 | Right , well what I could do is I could give you another prescription now , that you can go and get if you feel you are going to need something . |
| 14 | ‘ The least you could do is say thank you , ’ he taunted . |
| 15 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 16 | Well the thi one thing you could do is go and talk to one or two admissions tutors of the social work courses . |
| 17 | Shit , I thought , the least she could do is keep them sheathed when she does n't need them . |
| 18 | ‘ The least he could do is have it rolled . |
| 19 | What I could do is play a record but er I ca n't remember so bear with me for a moment . |
| 20 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ The least you could do is invite me in for a coffee . ’ |
| 22 | Mrs Hill says she 's trying to arrange a meeting with the foreign office , she says the least they could do is apologise . |
| 23 | Alternatively , er , what you could do is what I do , which is I use these for rolling basis appraisals . |
| 24 | The only thing you could do is get the , you know that kind of plastic edging you can get for wall tiles |
| 25 | That 's allowed , the maximum that we could do is two hundred interviews an hour |
| 26 | And what we could do is keep him at Saint Christopher 's if we can afford to send him privately , keep him at Saint Christopher 's for a couple of years . |
| 27 | I , the thing is to get , what , I mean what you could do is say right , well , you , we , we do n't mind putting your name up , bit of advertising cos it 's gon na all the film world 's gon na be seeing it , so all the location caterers would be able to use them . |
| 28 | I think we should therefore hold the fight until a clear pattern emerges and certainly avoid international incidents which might tempt the Red Army , either at Union level or in the Republics and finally I think perhaps one useful thing we could do is too assist initially , and I stress initially , well disposed Republics with bread and sausages . |
| 29 | The best thing you could do is ask at the |
| 30 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |