Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 2 | If the Government had listened to the police and taken prompt action on any of those warnings — action for which they could have secured all-party support — I have no doubt that some of this summer 's tragedies would have been avoided . |
| 3 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 4 | The four leaders , Clyde Wells of Newfoundland and Labrador , Donald Cameron of Nova Scotia , Joe Ghiz of Prince Edward Island and Frank McKenna of New Brunswick , also discussed methods through which they could co-ordinate economic and fiscal strategies in their forthcoming budgets . |
| 5 | It should be made clear that the value of this information for consumers would be chiefly as a yardstick against which they could measure the rates offered to them by lenders of the same type , or for credit of the same type . |
| 6 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 7 | Financial institutions such as building societies , banks and insurance companies bought up estate agents to build national networks of offices in which they could sell housing-related financial services . |
| 8 | Many schools of thought flourished , each within its own professional environment , while others withered away , unable to find a niche within which they could develop . |
| 9 | We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were . |
| 10 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 11 | Russian designers have certainly taken advantage of anything they could learn from the West . |
| 12 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 13 | About six feet below them they could hear thumps and scrapes as the luckless Stim dug his way down into the darkness . |
| 14 | From the hall behind them they could hear the commotion as their comrades and the invaders fought hand to hand . |
| 15 | The whole scene , the bar scene , the prostitution scene , the whole sex scene was enticing , shocking and , at the same time , fascinating but , above all , it was new , and they had no frame of reference with which they could measure it , ’ says Ed Behr . |
| 16 | The Labour Party officially viewed the Convention as " an attempt to build up a new Political Party " , and indeed it is not improbable that the Communists , fearing illegality , were preparing a new organization on United Front lines into which they could merge if necessary . |
| 17 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 19 | Venetian diplomats were likely to demand every ceremonial honour to which they could assert any shred of claim , and to be very touchy when faced with any apparent threat , however slight , to their status . |
| 20 | Fief-rentes provided kings with a pool of mercenaries on whom they could call without having to compete in the open market with other war-lords . |
| 21 | Too many people , she said , had used AIDS as an issue to which they could add their own prejudices . |
| 22 | But Phoenician traders were notorious for their shady dealings around the Mediterranean and if there was a precious commodity for which they could find a ready market , nothing could stop them . |
| 23 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 24 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 25 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 26 | Other factors contributing to the high loss rate were lack of parental support , ridicule by their peers , and no examples of maturer Christians with whom they could identify . |
| 27 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 28 | They could not easily have found any other body with which they could compare themselves , and in any case the House of Commons of the 1620s was itself not very important . |
| 29 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 30 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |