Example sentences of "[noun] we could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 2 | There are other principles of reasoning we could mention . |
| 3 | There are a large number of other methods we could examine . |
| 4 | With the spring we could begin the long slow climb out of the recession . |
| 5 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 6 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 7 | ( But only vegetables — there seemed to be no animals we could catch to provide meat , and we had no luck when we tried to fish . ) |
| 8 | Over the next months , rival consortia considered how to finance the new investment while at the Transport Department we could do little more than wait . |
| 9 | As we went back to Wyre home to Wyre we could meet the Wyre post boat coming across for the mails that we put to Rousay . |
| 10 | A corollary of the theory is that if only we were all experts at telepathy we could manage without language at all . |
| 11 | In spite of the struggle Bomber Command endured and the casualties suffered , particularly in the first two years when the bombers did so badly , and the only positive result we could measure was the shocking number of losses in aircrew , we were squandering our seed-corn . |
| 12 | From our research we could do six shows . |
| 13 | If you had n't have bought those library books we could have carried some home the other day ! |
| 14 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 15 | Okay we changed a few words just to fit the words we could find , but yes , we , we had about a minute at the end , we read it through , and yes , it was fine . |
| 16 | Our customers told us beforehand anything to do with dinosaurs we could sell . |
| 17 | Perhaps President we could solve the problem by the T & G having theirs one year and us the next . |
| 18 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 19 | If we wished for a more restful effect we could use far less harmonic change , holding chords for several beats ( Example 35 ) : This shows how a broad area of melody can be accompanied by the same harmony . |
| 20 | I think the more people who are aware of the alternatives that are in the building industry we could improve on this . |
| 21 | Sitting up in the cold morning light we could have been sprayed by a fine grey snow as we slept — dust from the Kalahari which I can still smell in my clothes . |
| 22 | The moon was low upon our right , and in its light we could see the top of a hill . |
| 23 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 24 | If we had a boat we could row across to the island of a picture |
| 25 | Across the gap we could see , quite plainly , the buttress of the higher Dru , cut and slashed by cracks and ledges like the mark of Zoro — the infamous Z pitch . |
| 26 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 27 | So we concentrated on the pleasure we could get for nothing . |
| 28 | Sheila was in complete agreement with me on this subject , and the only disadvantage we could see to living in a barracks was having men in heavy boots walking about over your head . |
| 29 | With Oveissi we could have ended the whole thing . |
| 30 | ‘ We could share the driving and drive sedately through Germany , ’ she amended with a smirk of a glance to where Fabia was grinning , ‘ and once I 've done my interview we could make a holiday of it — stay longer , have a tour around . |