Example sentences of "we could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we could place decisions at nodes 2 and 3 as well as at node 4 there would be 5 paths through the graph instead of 12 . |
| 2 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 3 | Surely we could return Brightness the Beluga to her own genetic family in the Arctic ? |
| 4 | The best season for an eastwards voyage was already past , though it was just possible that we might run far north and cross in the high latitudes where , even in summer , we could expect fog , rain and cold . |
| 5 | ‘ Where 's our nearest timber yard , our own yard , where we could handle trees like yon ? ’ |
| 6 | Goram said : ‘ Not many people in England believed we could beat Leeds and I do n't suppose there are many Frenchmen who think we can beat Marseille either . |
| 7 | She uses a touch of eastern exotica and a string quartet for the breathy , sensual , and intimate treatment of Frame 's We Could Send Letters , and what sounds like an oriental aquatic effect on Harry Nilsson 's witty Think About Your Troubles , but most songs rely solely and triumphantly on piano and voice . |
| 8 | ‘ We could send Kadan to get our arrows back , ’ Jehan said idly . |
| 9 | We are not then just talking about the French eating frogs ' legs and the English black pudding : we could eat frogs ' legs in England without affecting our social structure . |
| 10 | We could eat mythago-flesh … ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps in the light of the demand for veterinary surgeons in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars , we could interpret Coleman 's efforts favourably as a ‘ crash programme ’ , already anticipated by Vial . |
| 12 | We also held meetings with women from other sectors , such as campesina and market women , so that we could exchange experiences and ideas . |
| 13 | We survived the General Strike of 1926 , as we could exchange fish for other foods . |
| 14 | Well , we could grow fruit trees ; fruits that people would pay a lot for , not just maize and potatoes . ’ |
| 15 | We could plant softwood trees which grow much quicker . |
| 16 | A spokesman for a major insurance company commented , ‘ If they were there for only a short time , we could arrange cover , probably without charge . ’ |
| 17 | We could burn books . |
| 18 | ‘ The Church ! ’ we cried out and rushed to get anything we could lay hands on to put the fire out . |
| 19 | We were in standard seven , the highest class , which meant we could leave school early , when we were thirteen , which would be another eighteen months at least for me . |
| 20 | We could leave literacy , numeracy no ? |
| 21 | Of course we could leave things as they are and just go our own ways , but it would n't work . |
| 22 | And the bloke on the other end of the phone said , I think we could talk business . |
| 23 | The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella . |
| 24 | ‘ Now maybe we could calm things down a bit . ’ |
| 25 | On Friday w would it be a good idea Cos I do n't know what time the generator 's but I mean it would be really best if we could set things up . |
| 26 | We could set w k = 1 for all k and solve LP ( 1 , … , 1 ) to obtain an efficient solution . |
| 27 | Firstly , we are offering a family the diagnosis of a lethal untreatable disorder in an apparently healthy baby ; secondly , the protocol was designed so that we could modify practice in the light of experience ; and , thirdly , families should have choice at every stage from the initial screening test to a confirmed diagnosis . |
| 28 | Well the reason why we were attracted to it was of course the very point that that they would translate the disks for nothing , we would n't have to type out the register , and they would also add the telephone numbers without us having to look them all up so that we could do telephone canvassing . |
| 29 | cos we done not a lot this morning like I just sort of be zombies , I 'm sure we could do play with |
| 30 | I know he 's dead and that , but we could do things like , I du n no , like when you put flowers on someone 's grave when they died . |