Example sentences of "they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without ACET 's practical support at home they could spend long periods of time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 2 | Or a brand name may already exist ready for exploitation by a market-maker ; Impressionism , for example , was ready to hand for British dealers to invent a new category of art which they could stretch to calling British Impressionism . |
| 3 | They could not be let into it , but there was a duty to entertain them , and , as I was told , not to stare . |
| 4 | Those with training in other performance skills , variety , singers and dancers , should consult Equity about the means whereby they could qualify for membership . |
| 5 | In fact I refused to believe it and went back to check , feeling ‘ they could n't mean me ’ . |
| 6 | Whereas in Britain , with the growth of suffrage , catholics could never be perceived as a political threat because of the smallness of their numbers , in Ireland , with the growth of the home rule movement and its accompanying nationalism , they could only be perceived as politically , religiously , and nationally subversive and suspicion of them remained . |
| 7 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 8 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 9 | Pabulum Consultants ' Jennifer Rust adds : ‘ They could also help themselves by thinking through a problem before phoning the support desk . |
| 10 | Generations of British people have been happily walking into pubs for years and drinking alcohol that they could buy for a fraction of the price in a supermarket or off-licence . |
| 11 | I always figured people became chefs when they could n't do anything else . |
| 12 | It was gone three before they could have another real talking-over of the crime . |
| 13 | It was five o'clock before they could hear the results of his conversation . |
| 14 | The boys all liked him , too — and some of them resented being placed under my care because of the fun they knew they could be having next door . |
| 15 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 16 | I was a risk , and a risk they could all get by without taking . |
| 17 | At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me . |
| 18 | They told me to keep in touch and call them if I felt they could be of assistance . |
| 19 | It would be as soon as possible , but they could n't say exactly how long . |
| 20 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 21 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 22 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 23 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 24 | Another solution is to dig a hole in the garden , place the bowls in this , and cover them with a thick layer of leaf mould , peat or peat substitute , but the bowls must have drainage holes or they could become waterlogged during heavy rainfall . |
| 25 | Never lay crops directly on the floor where it is possible they could suffer from the effects of damp and poor air circulation , and arrange produce according to its preference : the roots nearer to the cool floor , and onions and marrows close to the ceiling where it is slightly warmer . |
| 26 | This was because with the older gliders like the T21 or T31 , the wings were very high and they could not be held securely except by keeping one wing low . |
| 27 | They probably have never even considered that they could have an accident and damage the glider . |
| 28 | Instead , they could have stayed on the side they were flying and made a right , instead of a left circuit , with height to spare . |
| 29 | Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled . |
| 30 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |