Example sentences of "we could [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most appropriate nation that we could ask to accept the new headquarters of a strengthened and reformed IAEA is Japan , the one nation to have experienced a wartime nuclear attack . |
| 2 | With Oveissi we could have ended the whole thing . |
| 3 | We could have enjoyed the intervening eight years together . ’ |
| 4 | Problem 3 We could have avoided the well-definedness problem as follows . |
| 5 | The minor one is that with the wing and two very heavy jet engines gone we have all that less to lift although I 'm certain we could have lifted the whole lot without trouble . |
| 6 | If our field athletes could have performed as well as the track men , we could have won the European Cup . |
| 7 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |