Example sentences of "they could [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already under Clovis ( 481 – 511 ) they could boast a leader of considerable stature . |
| 2 | My children would fill up my glass with indecent haste so that they could watch a white admiral butterfly settle on the rim , which it always did . |
| 3 | Not every school will be able to travel down to Portsmouth to see the wreck of the Mary Rose for themselves , but they could watch a video about the discovery and raising of the wreck , and carry out a computer simulation to search for the wreck . |
| 4 | They had stood in the dark until Peter had put his torch on , and then they had turned back , glad though , relieved , when they could light a match again . |
| 5 | They could earn a return on a considerable number of different investments . |
| 6 | It is just as likely that some viruses evolved from more complex organisms — that they are cell fragments which found they could earn a perfectly good living simply by sponging off others . |
| 7 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 8 | When the public schools were created to educate the children of the middle classes ( as opposed to the aristocracy , who were educated by tutors ) they could inculcate a more formalised standard English which would equip their pupils for empire , civil service and the cosmopolitan professions . |
| 9 | They could represent a group of pre-echinoderm deuterostomes , as neither stereom nor a true water-vascular system appears to be present . |
| 10 | Thus empowered , they could achieve a great deal , particularly in the areas of curriculum development and staff support . |
| 11 | They have achieved notable publicity in some areas , such as the issues of deaths occurring in police custody and government economic strategy , but there is no possibility that they could achieve a significance equal to that of the United States congressional committees . |
| 12 | Spain showed that they could present a serious challenge in the Olympics when they beat England twice in two training matches in Terrassa at the weekend , writes Cathy Harris . |
| 13 | If the other evidence was good enough they could secure a conviction on that alone . |
| 14 | Patrick was born in January but with the hectic promotion battle under way at Prenton Park , Chris and Christina left his baptism until after the soccer season so they could stage a big family party . |
| 15 | Now a team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany , working for Prof Dieter Oesterhelt , has found they could harness a salt-loving bacterium , called halobacterium , to mass produce receptors . |
| 16 | The farm minister also went on to say that the fundamental flaw in the package was the attempt to halt the drift from the land by people whose main reason for leaving farming was that they could attain a higher standard of living elsewhere . |
| 17 | Could I not go to the castle where the German headquarters were and ask if they could forward a small gift of food to a worker in Germany ? |
| 18 | They could pay a shilling each to come in , and sixpence for refreshments . |
| 19 | All the traffic , every single vehicle which passed him was equipped with lasers in its axles ; they could register a hit on his legs unless he was above them , or shielded by a wall , or between the wheels of a parked car , or holding his breath . |
| 20 | Twenty thousand rupees it would cost , but the extension worker said the government would pay for it if they could register a co-operative . |
| 21 | Group members can also be asked if they could give a small life history of themselves , although never without prior warning , and only if they are sufficiently confident to do so . |
| 22 | They told him , however , that they were short of staff and the earliest they could give a result was nine o'clock that night . |
| 23 | Although the latter would seem to be essential , they could contain a large proportion of practical exercises , as is common in papers in mathematics . |
| 24 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 25 | This is merely routine arrogance , but it obscures from them the fact that they could impress everyone a lot more if they could do a better job — and with a bit of help they could . |
| 26 | Many women resist swapping jobs because they know they could do a job a lot better or quicker themselves , or because they are frightened of ‘ having a go ’ at traditional male jobs . |
| 27 | The Royal African Company came under criticism from the West India sugar planters , who clamoured for more slaves to be supplied without explaining how they would be paid for , and also from other English merchants who thought they could do a better job of supplying slaves . |
| 28 | And something that was suggested by fire wardens , that they could do a five or ten minute erm presentation and could go round each floor to make people aware that they are the fire wardens , why we have to evacuate and the importance erm |
| 29 | Fellows from universities who fought in Spain are being given jobs in Intelligence or Censorship where they could do a lot more damage as traitors than a squaddy like I 'd be . |
| 30 | If they took cheese slices they could do a cheese , toasted cheese sandwiches or |