Example sentences of "could in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , both staff agree Miss Hall fitted in as well as anyone could in the circumstances . |
| 2 | The snag today is that those black sheep will create much bigger problems than they could in the past . |
| 3 | Either because those in power simply underestimated the potential for resistance or simply because they believed they could in the end over-ride such resistance , industrial companies in conjunction with waste disposal firms ( and often in collusion with state health regulatory agencies ) dumped indiscriminately and with disregard for human health and life . ’ |
| 4 | The Westons retrieved what was left of their stock and headed for Bristol , where they sold what they could in the markets there . |
| 5 | Leaving Paddy Mayne to bring up what he could in the way of supplies from Kabrit , Stirling set off from Siwa to Eighth Army Headquarters , which he found in turmoil . |
| 6 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 7 | Whether your clash is with a colleague , superior or customer , allowing it to develop into a trial of strength could in the end seriously jeopardise your career . |
| 8 | Advantage : the toilet is within the house and could in the future be connected to sewers rather than a soakway . |
| 9 | It opened with a siren and a man trying to follow as much of the government 's advice as he could in the time available . |
| 10 | Then Great-Grandad would drive the lot down to Barnard Castle to get the best price he could in the market place . |
| 11 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 12 | There was something corrupt about the extent to which the British in Northern Nigeria cared about the loyalty of their subjects , and the lengths to which they went to cultivate what could in the end only be an illusion of mutual respect . |
| 13 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 14 | He offered Helen Martini , as Chairman of the Parents ' Action Committee , whatever help he could in the campaign to get the children home , and to ensure that a full judicial inquiry was held . |
| 15 | Elizabeth had done all she could in the circumstances to provide the best possible start in life for her sons once her husband had died . |
| 16 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 17 | Were she so , perchance there would be a hope — faint but none the less reasonable — that she and the prince could in the fullness of time marry … |
| 18 | We believe that a continuation of this activity could in the long term be detrimental to the welfare of their less privileged neighbours , who have to depend on a weekly wage for their survival ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I think he ran as well as he could in the circumstances and he 'll go again at Longchamp in two weeks . ’ |
| 20 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 21 | After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South . |
| 22 | Energy was the release of such power that 2.2 pounds weight of the material , plutonium , could in the event of complete fission produce violent strength in the muscle of physics that was equivalent to the detonation of 20,000 tons of conventional explosive . |
| 23 | Once they had been admitted , every volunteer behaved within the mental hospital as normally as they could in the circumstances , and said no more about hearing voices . |
| 24 | Nor can they reduce the burden of government debt by inflation , as they could in the 1970s , because the abolition of capital controls prevents it . |
| 25 | Chairmen did not always agree with this interpretation , though they were aware that the Central Authority could in the last resort compel compliance by issuing a directive . |
| 26 | I saw enough of ex-Millfield boy David Hemp , in that extraordinary finish at Southampton when the teams played as long as they could in the twilight and Glamorgan were agonisingly close to victory , to believe he has a genuine future as a county player . |
| 27 | Waltz 's criticism of Kaplan to the effect that rules do not make a system invites a hermeneutic retort that nothing else possibly could in the social world . |
| 28 | He could approach the cataclysmic events of the forthcoming August with an adequate authority ; and he could in the future look back on 1931 with a certain complacency , as ‘ the year my party tried to get rid of me ’ . |
| 29 | Older senses survived , too ; and , under the impact of Romanticism , ‘ popular songs ’ could in the nineteenth century also be thought of as synonymous with ‘ peasant ’ , ‘ national ’ and ‘ traditional ’ songs . ’ |
| 30 | By the time Ellwood had done with Piper , got as much as he could in the time they dared allow , Carey had gone . |