Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | With the spring we could begin the long slow climb out of the recession . |
| 4 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A corollary of the theory is that if only we were all experts at telepathy we could manage without language at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | From our research we could do six shows . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps President we could solve the problem by the T & G having theirs one year and us the next . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think the more people who are aware of the alternatives that are in the building industry we could improve on this . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The moon was low upon our right , and in its light we could see the top of a hill . |
| 15 | If we had a boat we could row across to the island of a picture |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So we concentrated on the pleasure we could get for nothing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With Oveissi we could have ended the whole thing . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 23 | Applying eyeliner can be a tricky business ( see page 82 ) , but if you really love that 50s look , Lenthéric 's Eye-Definer is the best liquid liner we could find . |
| 24 | If we could only stay here longer in this village we could take the cure . |
| 25 | I itemise below the categories of work we could carry out for you in relation to establishing and developing the early stages of your group 's development programme , together with fee estimates . |
| 26 | But but if you if you wanted to er come and meet me from work we could go straight off somewhere then . |
| 27 | By that time , another 70,000 of us will have had accidents at work we could have avoided . |
| 28 | From the front attic window we could see down the rue de Fleuve to the river . |
| 29 | From the window we could see to the right a barrel-organ with a small dog dressed as a clown , to the left a pile of rags heaped on the Métro ventilation grille . |
| 30 | Upstairs from our window we could see the two men at a soft drinks stall across the road . |