Example sentences of "could work [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything 's owned by the by the government and er , I know it 's not a right good thing , like , but if it could work properly , it would be a damn good thing . |
| 2 | They could work privately , alone or with a partner , and could employ members of their own family , but not " wage earners " . |
| 3 | To develop such an environment , teachers aimed to create a self-supporting framework , in which pupils could work independently of the teacher , using the resource of other pupils and contributing actively to their own learning . |
| 4 | But we used to Littlewoods used to give us an order , for one machine , or two machines , and you could keep your machine on this one particular set of curtains , without changing your jacks , without changing your beams , without changing your bodies , you could work straight on and on and on . |
| 5 | The Government should be negotiating to gain full recognition of the fact that monetary union and a single currency could work successfully only if there were convergence in the real economic performance of countries : convergence in terms of growth and employment , as well as in terms of inflation and interest rates . |
| 6 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 7 | So what you could do , you could see the defence , and then from that you could work backwards , to the motive of the defence . |
| 8 | I could work overtime to raise the money . |
| 9 | There he could work closely with the singers , the designer Lorenzo Quaglio , and the ballet-master Pierre Le Grand . |
| 10 | For this reason , and realising it would need to be a writer based at the BBC with whom he could work closely , David Whitaker , on Donald Wilson 's recommendation , selected Anthony Coburn . |
| 11 | As with other books I have collaborated on , I was particularly fortunate in having a co-author with whom I could work closely and well , though not without disagreements . |
| 12 | That offer is still open and I think it could work well if people could be bothered . |
| 13 | His mission was to show that socialism was not only politically possible but could work well in practice , a natural extension and not ( as it was sometimes portrayed by the left ) a betrayal of his previous commitment . |
| 14 | But the centre 's new manager , Mr Albion Small , said late night Thursday opening had proved very successful in Newcastle and could work well in Darlington after the centre opens on August 27 . |
| 15 | They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’ |
| 16 | No , you know , if I could work somewhere in an office where I could use my car |
| 17 | During that decade of major war , Britain 's near-monopoly of factory industry was sustained , and after 1815 she entered a new era of economic history in which the mutual influences of industrialisation and trade expansion could work freely , and in which , as Professor Thomas has expressed it , " trade was the child of industry " . |
| 18 | I could work here then go up to London during the day and try to get things sorted out . |
| 19 | And that kind of thing on a perhaps a little larger scale , could work here I think . |
| 20 | It works for education authorities and it could work here , but the needs do vary a great deal from locality to locality and are not really suitable for discussion for decision in Whitehall , or to be more accurate Queen Anne 's Gate . |
| 21 | This week we 'll be asking — could such an approach could work here ? |
| 22 | And nerves too when you have a finger whose paralysed and could n't remove it and put in a nerve and then they could work again . |
| 23 | Despite its demise , SeaDocs proved that an international , centralized , largely electronic bill of lading system could work reliably on a world wide basis . |
| 24 | Tony returned to Britain with the idea that the M.I. concept could work equally well over here , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 25 | The number of mills that could work effectively on the same stream was limited , which led to smaller streams being used by means of building dams to create mill-ponds . |
| 26 | I mean whether I 'll ever work offshore again 's another thing , but I would like to try going offshore I mean then again I mean I reckon I could work offshore no problem at all , but whether I could sleep on the platform is a completely different matter . |
| 27 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 28 | On other flights , Soviet cosmonauts could work only about four hours a day . |
| 29 | But they could work much better . |
| 30 | Under this system prisoners could work together and use the same dormitories , but they were forbidden to speak to one another or communicate in any other way ; they were , therefore , under constant close surveillance day and night . |