Example sentences of "we could [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 2 | Now that would be the normal peacetime lead time if we could accelerate that in industry and find some way of doing it then it may well be possible to do in quicker time than that . |
| 3 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |
| 4 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 5 | all we could suggest that they did w w |
| 6 | If we take the optimistic view , we could suggest that any group of wage-earners who managed to secure a wage increase of 60 per cent can not have ended the period to any real degree worse off than they began it . |
| 7 | Oh yeah right well I mean we could leave that to our representatives if you like erm to erm to cater for those those milkmen erm in the same way as the milkmen . |
| 8 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 9 | We could assume that everyone in the population is a user or a potential user of the accounts of public sector organizations . |
| 10 | Hubble noted that certain types of stars always have the same luminosity when they are near enough for us to measure ; therefore , he argued , if we found such stars in another galaxy , we could assume that they had the same luminosity — and so calculate the distance to that galaxy . |
| 11 | got twenty one , twenty two , twenty seven , twenty eight , twenty , twenty plus something , we could make that N if you like instead of X. We could make it N , N is just some number from about nought to nine . |
| 12 | ‘ 'T IS all very well putting on your old gown and pretending to be a serving-girl so we could pass that dolt at the solar door . |
| 13 | We could reply that if you alter the condition specified by any of the co-ordinates , you alter the context . |
| 14 | We began this section by stating that under certain conditions we could show that free enterprise or free markets led to a Pareto-efficient allocation . |
| 15 | No competition of any binding sites within the PPT promoter was seen by the 71/72 oligonucleotide although under similar conditions we could show that an AP1 oligonucleotide specifically competed a previously proposed AP1 binding site ( 7 ) . |
| 16 | If we knew how it was produced , for example not by moving a pencil round on one end of a taut thread , but along one fixed at both ends , we could conclude that it really is an ellipse and not a circle . |
| 17 | If these predictions were not to agree with observation , we could conclude that the universe is not in the no-boundary state . |
| 18 | It might be that we could ensure that the shopping and household chores are done , or that the children are collected from school , thus alleviating the stress of trying to cope with everyday matters whilst trying to deal with extraordinary ones . |
| 19 | But unless we could ensure that the voice of the people — fresh , urgent and heartfelt — somehow entered the hallowed inquiry chamber , with its unwritten rules and legalistic jargon , we would get stuck in a morass of procedure and paperwork where only the strong , and barristers , could possibly survive . |
| 20 | If our tea and lunch breaks could be structured on the lines of the ancient Egyptians I am sure that by 10.30am each day there would be a smile on the face of each and every member of staff ; and if we could ensure that all our members were treated by their employers in the same way , our membership figures would double instantly . |
| 21 | But we could tell that it was longer because of the extra tape measures it would take to get from one side to the other . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose we could reinstate that if Glyn can get the time off . ’ |
| 23 | We would need to know far more about the actual course of study students had been following , albeit briefly , under Vial , before we could accept that Coleman maliciously reduced it , and that his motive , as claimed by Smith , was mercenary self-interest ( the 20 guineas student 's fee going into his pocket ) . |
| 24 | And there was dust and everything went black , all the lights went out , so I mean from that w we could ascertain that it was fairly serious what had happened . |
| 25 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 26 | We could imagine that you 're my mother 's sister . ’ |
| 27 | Erm we could write that as , instead of the hundred and twenty we could have twelve times ten could n't we ? |
| 28 | He was screaming for a long time before he fell , and we could hear that he was running as he screamed . |
| 29 | Biblical poetry in general is overwhelmingly composed of couplets ( or triplets , extended couplets ) , and of such couplets we could state that they are of one sort ( A is related to B ) or of a hundred , but not of three or four or five . |
| 30 | By DNaseI footprinting , we could demonstrate that the 303 bp BglI-NaeI segment ( see Fig. 1 ) , including the RARE and the 80 bp fragment , is able to bind at least two different factors , but only one , the so called footprint I , is localized in the 80 bp region , known to be necessary for full transcriptional activity . |