Example sentences of "[coord] they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partners could then decide to sell it and divide the cash or they could decide to continue to the next stage of association ( called al-nusf , ‘ halves ’ ) . |
| 2 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 3 | They were only for coaches or they could do to ride as well ? ’ |
| 4 | They could let conditions worsen ; or they could move power back to national government ; or they could re-organise the electoral boundaries so that the irresponsible Left loses its tight inner urban constituencies ; or they could push power out beyond local government and into the hands of the people whom it is elected to serve . |
| 5 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 6 | The statements could relate to past facts ( i. e. they could mean that those services were provided last season ) or they could relate only to the future ( i.e. that they will be provided next season ) . |
| 7 | They could let conditions worsen ; or they could move power back to national government ; or they could re-organise the electoral boundaries so that the irresponsible Left loses its tight inner urban constituencies ; or they could push power out beyond local government and into the hands of the people whom it is elected to serve . |
| 8 | Or they could return to election by MPs alone , a system belatedly accepted by the Tories , in place of their former Magic Circle . |
| 9 | Or they could 've got a plane to Paris , nobody would have stopped them . |
| 10 | Or they could kill themselves . |
| 11 | Or they could join the fair folk . |
| 12 | Or they could have sold that controlling interest to someone else — heaven help us ! |
| 13 | Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner . |
| 14 | Whether they served the primary or the secondary sector schools could take their management responsibilities in two ways : they could plan with the expectation that a larger degree of local choice and discretion would be gradually restored to them or they could look upon their job as one of responding to differing levels of pressure from central government . |
| 15 | where the , where the main lines were , or they could look and see erm , what do you call them , those groups of trees on tops of hills they used |
| 16 | They could strike west and try to cut off Gonder , another heavily-fortified garrison , or they could try to continue rolling south towards the capital . |
| 17 | Private generators could either sell direct to final customers by leasing the use of the public sector 's transmission network ( the Act guaranteed access on specified terms ) or they could sell to the public sector electricity industry ( the Act required purchase to take place on specified terms ) . |
| 18 | They could knock on the door , or they could sell send their servants ! |
| 19 | They could let conditions worsen ; or they could move power back to national government ; or they could re-organise the electoral boundaries so that the irresponsible Left loses its tight inner urban constituencies ; or they could push power out beyond local government and into the hands of the people whom it is elected to serve . |
| 20 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 21 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 22 | Or they could keep their old loans but with new guarantees , at the same time providing new money worth 25% of their exposure 's value . |
| 23 | They could discharge the case if they were convinced that there were no grounds by the disputing party , or they could take the case to the Sheriff Court for a proof hearing . |
| 24 | They could involve matching a variety of situations or uses to a list of products or a list of items using those products ; they could involve putting the benefits of the product in order of merit or they could take the form of a question and answer quiz with specified answers from which to choose . |
| 25 | They could either resist by rejecting dominant models of femininity — by dressing down and by going out like boys , for example — or they could use their femininity as an oppositional weight at school — by wearing make-up and clothes which were forbidden , for example . |
| 26 | Another solution is to dig a hole in the garden , place the bowls in this , and cover them with a thick layer of leaf mould , peat or peat substitute , but the bowls must have drainage holes or they could become waterlogged during heavy rainfall . |
| 27 | Or they could convert their debt into new guaranteed bonds whose yield was just 6.5% . |
| 28 | And they could choose what they wanted from that ? |
| 29 | This would do , he told her , until such time as she became converted to Catholicism and they could marry properly . |
| 30 | The friction of their bodies had rubbed away all the untidy mess of misunderstanding , and they could speak directly . |