Example sentences of "way [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were ways I could straddle the machine , but this just seemed ludicrous . |
| 2 | We could see the sights , have some fun , and maybe I could think of some ways I could help you . ’ |
| 3 | The bills were n't sequentially numbered or marked in any of the large variety of ways I could imagine . |
| 4 | There were other ways I could have planted the radio-mike . |
| 5 | But all the taxi money adds up and if I had to take taxis both ways I could n't afford it . ’ |
| 6 | An interesting example of task-centred work in an old people 's home showed ways which could be helpful to residential workers , or health care teams in hospital , to work on adjustment to residential life , or the hospital care the client might experience ( Dierking et al . , |
| 7 | There 's dozens of ways she could have known . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He never hides and in a lot of ways you could liken him to John McGovern . |
| 9 | But do n't forget to start thinking about ways you could expand , where you would n't be competing directly with other outlets like that department store . ’ |
| 10 | Er you remember earlier this evening I said there was two ways you could help me |
| 11 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 12 | Yeah and there are all sorts of ways you could . |
| 13 | See how many different ways you could make three sixty . |
| 14 | In the grant-aided sector we used to sit around in our meetings thinking of ways we could open things out and get away from things being dominated by White middle-class people . |
| 15 | We worked out there were several ways we could compose a visual picture , before we settled on using the mirror technique . |
| 16 | We tried to give examples of the ways we could try to direct finance to help these sort of things happen . |
| 17 | That all costs money , and erm there are various ways we could suggest of raising that money , but that needs to be done . |
| 18 | In many ways one could argue that there was nothing new in the FMI ; it was simply that many of these changes were almost two decades late in being recommended since they closely resemble many of the proposals contained in the Fulton Committee Report of 1968 ( Cmnd. 3638 ) . |
| 19 | It was the kind of story that she would relish but with her blunt ways one could never be sure she would n't at some time let the cat out of the bag . |
| 20 | However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal . |
| 21 | Similarly you could decide to make your family more aware of some of your frustrations and what sort of ways they could help you . |
| 22 | For the next ten days they set up camp at Etaples , spending their mornings being marched over dunes , their afternoons being instructed in gas warfare and their evenings being told by Captain Trentham the different ways they could die . |
| 23 | Gazzer 's mind was working desperately , selecting , then rejecting all of the possible ways he could respond to this surprise attack . |
| 24 | Derek Senior accepted the analysis of the problems facing local government , indeed in some ways he could count it as his own , but he did not accept the possibility of effective unitary authorities . |
| 25 | Fred was struggling to think of ways he could help . |
| 26 | If the government ever agreed to return to its old uncommercial ways , there are , in theory , three ways it could do so . |
| 27 | It seems rather grandiose to label a talk with a colleague in the same office or department as an ‘ interview ’ , but in some ways it could be considered to be one , especially if our colleague is an expert in the field in which we ourselves have become interested . |
| 28 | In many ways it could even be described as idyllic . |
| 29 | The book is complementary to Durant and Fabb 's Literary Studies in Action , published by Routledge in the Interface series in 1990 , and in many ways it could serve as a useful introduction to that volume . |
| 30 | The only way I could show that in my opinion they were absolutely wrong was to start an action for libel . ’ |