Example sentences of "that they could do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies . |
| 2 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 3 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 4 | The alternative and desired emphasis of policy would be to provide more resources to parents caring for their children at home so that they could do their job better , and to reunite with their parents , wherever possible , those children who have been removed . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) The sales information , including the information about prices , was necessarily acquired by the defendants in order that they could do their work . |
| 6 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
| 7 | Knowing that she turned the peeping Toms on with her performances — and that they could do nothing about it as they sat there , transfixed by her sex and her flagrant use of it . |
| 8 | Several leaders of the Liberal Party " were known to favour a Popular Front to move the Government , but acquiesced in the view that they could do nothing about it unless the Labour Party changed its attitude " . |
| 9 | The regions are far too big and complex to be handled from Detroit and even if they were foolish enough to believe that they could do it more effectively — which they ca n't — they would be crazy to try . ’ |
| 10 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 11 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |