Example sentences of "they could [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And anyway they could probably design a system based on the photo-electric cell . |
| 2 | El e Elliel , Elliel said that er they could probably twist the council 's arm |
| 3 | If they were living in England they could probably cope a lot better . |
| 4 | First , they responded to much slower movements than the other group — so slow , in fact , that they could easily detect the motion of the sun or stars through the sky . |
| 5 | I know people mean well , but they should realise that they could easily offer a child fruit like an apple or a banana instead . |
| 6 | There had been an almighty family row a fortnight before : Tristram had remarked that she was overworked and that they could easily afford a servant , and Harry had taken exception to the suggestion . |
| 7 | The Asaimara were thereby convinced they could successfully defy the Government . |
| 8 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 9 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 10 | At all events the Treasury was opposed to new forms of central economic control ( or planning ) not least because they could well mean the loss of its own authority . |
| 11 | They could well imagine the panic that would now ensue at Russian military headquarters once it was realised that all their previous secrets had been lost . |
| 12 | It was a cracker of a game , and if the BLI selectors can sort out their front end problems — especially their leads — they could well produce a title winning quartet . |
| 13 | There were , of course , grounds for taking it ; they could well argue the impossibility of continuing to give their loyalty and service to a monarch who was creating a totally new situation by failing in her fundamental duty of ruling her people . |
| 14 | ‘ They could just follow the truck ; after all the hijackers have to stop sometime . ’ |
| 15 | On the twelfth floor of the hotel , from which they could just get a view of the distant river , they were delighted with their prosperous-looking aunt . |
| 16 | Except that the mattress had smelt musty , and that as they lay in bed through those long cold mornings they could just see the spire of the Congregational church through the window . |
| 17 | Because N may be either headlights or darkness they could also produce the sentence The darkness penetrated the headlights . |
| 18 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 19 | WOLVES fancy Blackpool forward David Eyres and they could also get a call from Chelsea , who may fancy Mike Stowell to end their search for a goalkeeper . |
| 20 | They could also see the inside of the hat . |
| 21 | Otherwise the darkness was intense and they could barely distinguish the ground at their feet . |
| 22 | But if Dr Mumby 's right , Turtle fans may find that rather than helping the good guys , they could instead get a cow bunger clobbering from the Turtle team by turning into the baddies . |
| 23 | Still critical of the economic and social pressures which centred around the city they could yet find no alternative in this countryside where nature , it was known , was not Marlowe 's ‘ beds of roses ‘ . |
| 24 | So if the teacher wanted to find out about the courses they could either contact the University or their own organisations , erm the D E S or the , the Local Education Authority . |
| 25 | One of the great advantages was that instead of journalists having to plough through yards and yards of dusty cuttings , they could simply call the information they needed to screen . |
| 26 | Octavia Hill , too , adopted the principle that her housing ventures must be self-supporting , and that the tenants should pay an economic rent ; she maintained that rate-aided housing might be a danger to poorer tenants , who would be in the position of having to contribute through the rates to council housing , when they could scarcely afford the rent for their own inferior accommodation . |
| 27 | She said that she had had people come to her office in tears , not knowing how they could possibly meet the cost of a funeral . |
| 28 | We did not really think they could possibly get a boat in . ’ |
| 29 | And he asked me to a ask you to when they ra give the tape back if they could possibly supply a copy of it , of that tape to them . |
| 30 | They could almost form a club of their own . |