Example sentences of "you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could covenant all your taxable income if you wished — remember though that a part of your total income will not be subject to tax , because of the various tax allowances you enjoy ( personal allowances , mortgage interest relief , etc . ) |
| 2 | Alternatively , you could use the GIFT AID scheme ( see separate leaflet ) . |
| 3 | Either you should ask your spouse to enter into the covenant or you could enter into a Joint Deed of Covenant signed by both you and your spouse . |
| 4 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 5 | Also , by making a proper Will you could well save your dependants from paying an unnecessary amount of inheritance tax ( death duties ) . |
| 6 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 7 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 8 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 9 | Well , not up anything you could call a ’ |
| 10 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 11 | It 's worthwhile reading some pre-Shakespearean drama ; you could read Everyman , a great morality play of the late Middle Ages , and Gammer Gurton 's Needle , first performed in 1566 and thought to be the second oldest English comedy . |
| 12 | William Congreve 's Love for Love and The Way of the World are highly decorated in language , and sharp in wit ; to compare with these , you could look at William Wycherley 's more ‘ basic ’ comedy , The Country Wife . |
| 13 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 14 | It 's pretty lightweight , most of it and what is n't lightweight is salacious , so I would n't think you 'd find much to stimulate you there , but you could try . |
| 15 | You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk . |
| 16 | Perhaps you could have two pieces of broken gramophone record with you as a prop to start the extract . |
| 17 | Armistice Day is still only celebrated in Southern Ireland by protestants : as late as the early 1970s , you could still tell a protestant by his poppy on 11 November . |
| 18 | You could have talked to her , he said , you could have explained . |
| 19 | You could have talked to her , he said , you could have explained . |
| 20 | There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling . |
| 21 | You could type in all your accounting figures again , and recreate what you can of the customer histories from print outs in the filing cabinet . |
| 22 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 23 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , you could n't have , ’ Mrs Yardley protested . |
| 25 | You could say he killed himself , really . ’ |
| 26 | Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot . |
| 27 | I wish you could stay here for ever . |
| 28 | You could have Nanny 's room , next to mine . ’ |
| 29 | Five coppers from Addlesfield , and a French gentleman with moustaches you could uncork a bottle with who 's staying with the Chief Constable . |
| 30 | Otherwise you could have seen the garden , although there 's not much to look at at this time of the year . ’ |