Example sentences of "[subord] they could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , Willis found that his lads were very well prepared for work in factories where they could use the same ‘ survival ’ techniques as they had learned at school . |
| 2 | But eventually the Edwards family moved down the road to run a residential home for the elderly ( which , when you think about it , was a logical step from caring for birds ! ) and the peregrine and various other injured birds needed new homes where they could receive the same amount of care and attention . |
| 3 | The whole job had to be finished so they could catch the same ferry back . |
| 4 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 5 | Last night , emergency services were hoping that the weather would hold so they could begin the massive clean-up operation today . |
| 6 | Everyone knew the words , so they could follow the distorted reproduction successfully . |
| 7 | The conquest of Ireland was the largest military undertaking of Elizabeth 's reign , costing over £1m. , or the total royal revenue for three years , which was far more than any other military or naval activities , and a new wave of English landlords was able to gain estates if they could hold the rebellious Irish population in subjection . |
| 8 | They travelled all over the countryside asking farmers if they could buy the rustic doors that were lying in the mud at the back of the barn . |
| 9 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , it seemed that they could do perfectly well without the aid of colour , providing they could see the general shape of the person . |
| 11 | He frowned , wondering whether they could recoup the entire cost of the holiday by letting the house in London to an American . |
| 12 | Numerically , Miliutin wrote , Russia 's forces looked strong , but it was doubtful whether they could withstand the fresh and well-organized armies which the enemy would be putting into the field against them . |
| 13 | And what if the request for attention conflicts with our own similar need , as in the incident we described in Chapter I under ‘ Babies and Bathwater ’ , where both partners were tired and needed recognition before they could meet the similar need in the other . |
| 14 | This result was interpreted in terms of meaningfulness ' by Matsumiya , Tagliasco , Lombroso and Goodglass ( 1972 ) who showed in a separate study that inter-hemispheric asymmetry was greatest when subjects had to understand each stimulus word , and minimal when they could ignore the semantic content . |
| 15 | Most Protestants want to return to the days of Stormont when they could control the internal policies in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |