Example sentences of "[noun pl] we could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a large number of other methods we could examine . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | If you had n't have bought those library books we could have carried some home the other day ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Our customers told us beforehand anything to do with dinosaurs we could sell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Also with video we are quite likely to be using material which was not made for language teaching anyway and which will be full of visual elements we could exploit . |
| 9 | You would quite literally have to be a practising Satanist gone stupid from self-abuse to not know that ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ says more to you about your life than , ooh , lots of other camp ironic pop singers we could mention . |
| 10 | If more magazines published such articles we could learn from others ' experiences and take steps to help all victims of this eternal triangle . |
| 11 | In the next 12 weeks we could lose the next general election . ’ |
| 12 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 13 | This means that when we designed general SVQs we could give them all a similar number of module credits — whereas different occupational SVQs often have widely varying numbers of modules . |
| 14 | ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results . |
| 15 | ‘ In those days we could run about the area bouncing the ball , but now things are more entertaining . ’ |
| 16 | Biblical poetry in general is overwhelmingly composed of couplets ( or triplets , extended couplets ) , and of such couplets we could state that they are of one sort ( A is related to B ) or of a hundred , but not of three or four or five . |
| 17 | We shall therefore only look at some of the writings we could have considered , and concentrate on those works which contain a large proportion of anthropological discussion . |
| 18 | One of the few places we could go to on the camp at Binbrook without risk of being observed by the hierarchy was the Station cinema . |
| 19 | From the banks we could hear dogs barking . |
| 20 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 21 | We , we , we , I suppose it 'd be like two levels , that in the majority of cases we could say we recommend that you do not issue a licence . |
| 22 | And then with the five pennies we could say well penny between you two , penny between you two , another penny between you two , between you two , an . |
| 23 | ‘ I retain a belief that by means of higher productivity and better crafted tax and welfare policies we could reduce poverty . |
| 24 | I think we had twelve or thirteen cars , so that was twelve shifts we could cover , we had three gates to cover cover , so and forty men , and just shared them out and that was all computerized , printed out , everyone had a copy , and on the whole it worked very very well . |
| 25 | Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses . |
| 26 | So do any of you Oxford whites know of any cheap accomodation ( or have any spare houses we could use : - ) ) |
| 27 | Taking the smallest of these values we could find the value of R5 that will produce a current of 93µA to the base of TR2 . |
| 28 | We welcome suggestions for any further improvements we could make , so please let us know your views . |
| 29 | The other exception to accept the erm the the savings identified as possibilities relate to item thirty structural and maintenance of of the roads we could make a cut of of half a million . |
| 30 | Sure , she does n't scream with anguish and caterwaul and present a screwed-up persona like some ‘ foxcore ’ groups we could name , but she 's quite comfortable being a woman and there should be as many ways for women to express themselves as there are grains of sand on a non-radioactive beach . |