Example sentences of "which we could [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Chairman , just before we leave things can I just remind members now that , that , the target set for this Committee was a net increase , and , have that in mind as we go through , and that increase is some six hundred and forty thousand pounds , which we could show within those papers as having arrived at it , in ninety four , five .
2 The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul .
3 We could also see Amy playing , and we could count the money Mr Smith saved for both parents to spend on cleaning materials which we could watch them using !
4 There are many ways in which we could meet these specifications in a computer model .
5 There are two other ways in which we could break down those two unanswered situations .
6 I think everyone felt it was stodgy ; it was not a dynamic springboard from which we could leap into a new era of effective education .
7 On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century .
8 The two brain regions are quite small — dissected out , each weighs no more than a couple of milligrams — and Andras invented a special plastic mould into which we could drop the brain , slice slabs out with a razor blade and then use a fine scalpel to cut round the regions , guiding the dissection under a microscope .
9 And the dog , of course , which we could offer some peanuts of the ordinary salted variety .
10 Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do .
11 It does nothing to promote an honest public debate , in which we could examine a wide range of factors — including the present uses and abuses of VAT by the Government and many others — and then arrive at some morally-decent decision .
12 Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods .
13 Most of the information available from institutions from which we could sample concerned adult applicants rather than adult enquirers .
14 If things went well , we 'd get our investment back in five years , with a handsome profit as well , and we 'd still have effective control of a hotel which we could continue to operate as part of our group .
15 We do have a double lesson after dinner which we could continue this .
16 In McNeile 's there were no changing rooms or showers , only foot baths in which we could wash after games , and only two baths and five lavatories for forty-seven of us .
17 As I have said , the European Community has failed to produce the legislation under which we could do that .
18 It was at the very next stage was n't it that you had this switch from a boundary which we could accept to one which we profoundly could not accept ?
19 Well it does n't really make sense , simply because the carp 's own enzymes are far more effective than those which we could supply , i.e. those from sheep or cattle .
20 We should regard negotiations rather as the means by which we could establish formal agreements between our state and Israel .
21 I also discussed with Marshal Shaposhnikov the ways in which we could establish clearer links between us and our staffs .
22 John Gould was equally hard at work and spent hours tracking down Joyce 's more obscure lyrics and tunes which we could try out in place of any songs which were too difficult for my limited vocal range .
23 The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system .
24 Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals .
25 We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes .
26 We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture .
27 There was n't any chance really , well there was nothing which we could call there was no encouragement for girls to achieve anything academically or really encouragement for them to do anything much with their lives after they left school , aside from in the home , except for perhaps being domestic servants , something like that , which is after all the category of employment which absorbed most women until quite late on .
28 ‘ There are two routes , one being to take advantage of the Sunday trading debate , which we could turn around with slogans like ‘ Church — it 's more fun than a DIY shed ’ .
29 It even had a creaking dock at which we could tie up directly alongside .
30 It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face .
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