Example sentences of "they could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering they had also beaten New South Wales convincingly they could justifiably claim to be the top provincial side around . |
| 2 | However , they were also quite pricey , as they could well afford to be , so I designed my own after a first disaster with one of the Ken Smith ledger rods . |
| 3 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 4 | They could also lead to unwanted pregnancies and venereal disease , both on the increase among young people . |
| 5 | While they could point to the fact that the town might have a poor bus system , could have better public amenities and that in winter it was dull , they could also point to the good health they enjoyed compared to when they lived in a large industrial city . |
| 6 | The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges . |
| 7 | In future , they could either proceed to ‘ one person , one vote ’ , like the Liberal Democrats , with all the problems this creates for a party whose structure is based on affiliated organisations . |
| 8 | That came back through a separate AC30 so they could both distort to their hearts ’ content and not interfere with each other . |
| 9 | A magazine with the vision to run these two very different pieces in the same issue , in the knowledge that they could both appeal to the same reader , deserves applause . |
| 10 | If , instead of ‘ piecework ’ , the men contracted to get the harvest in by the end of a month , it meant that should they finish before that time they could then go to other jobs on the farm , drawing their usual wage whilst doing so . |
| 11 | Some teachers were aware that they could now contribute to decision-making but still saw the head as deciding all the issues . |
| 12 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 14 | Trie tried to persuade Sue to ask er them if the they could all change to Word at work . |
| 15 | At first they had no joy and , on the evening of their first day out of London , went to bed so weary they could scarce speak to each other . |
| 16 | At the same time , Nos. 1E , 2E and 3E , were taken out of service for a short time , to receive a small modification — they were fitted with spare sets of track brake equipment , so that they could subsequently work to the Crystal Palace . |