Example sentences of "[adj] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed , however , that the British could collaborate in the Skybolt development and buy it on very favourable terms . |
| 2 | At once , the waiters began to reorganise the tables so that as many as possible could sit under the parasols and to hurry away the unused cushions and linen so as not to let them be soaked . |
| 3 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |
| 4 | Nothing so commonplace could happen to the crazy Demdykes . |
| 5 | One answer was to construct three or four fortified entrenched camps about twenty or thirty miles from London as indirect protection , manned with regular troops ; another , to build about fifty works , about twelve miles from London , which being purely defensive could draw upon the vast resources of the city in men and materials . |
| 6 | Progress in this direction has now been achieved for a diversity of world areas and requires ancillary information related to climatic change and , in turn , when sufficient information becomes available could contribute to the reconstruction of world patterns . |
| 7 | One carpeted and well-lit , the other narrow and steep , up which something nasty could slink in the darkness to get her . |