Example sentences of "we could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I know how we could settle this , ’ said one of the girls . |
| 32 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 33 | " If you can find out his dentist , at least we could settle whether he was the man in the Thames . " |
| 34 | We could settle down to real life ; they were out to get us , and we were out to stop them . |
| 35 | We could shorten them anyway and just put lamps on them . |
| 36 | We could refurbish it and it would remain your property , a place of your own to go to whenever you so desired . |
| 37 | If we could observe several different solar systems around other stars , the resulting constants would vary . |
| 38 | If we could observe them , it would provide a good test of this picture of a very hot early stage of the universe . |
| 39 | Further , since the previous examination record of the majority of our students was the minimum required , we could anticipate few B.Ed candidates — even if students ' response to what we had to offer proved to be very satisfactory indeed . |
| 40 | Immediately we could sense a rough and rather unpleasant atmosphere , but we allowed ourselves to be swept up the steps of the first house into a howling throng of excitable spectators . |
| 41 | I mean we could sense a goal was coming . |
| 42 | The two feet would shrink with a cheating stick , and perhaps we could avoid some of the easier but time-consuming lower pitches by sneaking in along the first terrace from an easier route . |
| 43 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 44 | We finally realised that we could avoid even that embarrassment by giving ourselves breathing space . |
| 45 | ‘ We do value our small business customers but generally we could avoid many problems if they did communicate more with us . ’ |
| 46 | After skiing the last section of the Vallee Blanche Nigel decided we could avoid a walk into Chamonix by skiing down a snow chute filled with avalanche debris . |
| 47 | Or it may arise because we are pursuing a particular path and if we went back upstream we could avoid the problem instead of trying to solve it . |
| 48 | Well , I I was hoping we could , we could avoid discussing the activities of too many District and London Borough Councils for that matter , such as Westminster today , erm , but erm , there are certainly some very fine London Borough Councils . |
| 49 | You would quite literally have to be a practising Satanist gone stupid from self-abuse to not know that ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ says more to you about your life than , ooh , lots of other camp ironic pop singers we could mention . |
| 50 | There are other principles of reasoning we could mention . |
| 51 | We could mention occupational health service review . |
| 52 | 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 . ’ |
| 53 | Surely we could return Brightness the Beluga to her own genetic family in the Arctic ? |
| 54 | If only we could return to the values of the past , many of us dream , how much better life would be ! |
| 55 | ft informed us that he was leaving Salamanca for England on his motor bike , via Cherbourg , and that we could expect him in Bath on a certain day . |
| 56 | Today we could expect to find perhaps a dozen employed ; but then , only 14 were retired in the broadest sense . |
| 57 | Every Christmas we could expect at least one toy apiece . |
| 58 | A time was to be fixed for the expedition in the month of November , and by leaving in the evening on the ebb tide we could expect to reach the shores of Wight with the full morning flood . |
| 59 | Therefore , as Ernest Tuveson points out in Imagination as a Means of Grace : ‘ From the nature of mind as described by Locke we could expect a new poetry to be highly visual in nature , for the faculty of sight came to monopolize the analysis of intellectual activity . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ This team will improve and we could expect to finish round about eighth in the Premier League without buying a player . ’ |