Example sentences of "they could [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 2 | Previously , ASEAN states had viewed with suspicion any effort to include environmental concerns in GATT on the grounds that they could be used as an excuse for a protectionist attitude by wealthy northern countries , and that , specifically , they could lead to a ban on the import of timber from south-east Asia . |
| 3 | It did however reflect a sense of Britain 's central role in a world-wide economy and permitted individuals to believe they could contribute to a good cause without relying upon government or becoming enmeshed in politics . |
| 4 | Some will be more businesslike , some will be better equipped , some will be growing , others in decline — all these factors directly affect both the contribution which they could make to a partnership and the objective which they would expect to gain from it . |
| 5 | After about nine months ' stay they could graduate to a single room but by then many preferred to be in with their friends . |
| 6 | It was , therefore , proposed in 1953 to introduce a form of ‘ boost ’ training for trained crews on reserve status whereby they could return to a squadron to undertake two weeks of intensive refresher flying . |
| 7 | Their desperate attempts to cut expenditure in any way they could led to a sharp decline in print quality . |
| 8 | The support workers were encouraged to be fairly flexible with the hours worked , so that they could respond to a crisis with their client , or to any temporary increased need for their services . |
| 9 | The Rex/Olympia doubling soon finished but before they could relax to a comparatively simple regime of five shows a day , they were told to double at the Paramount . |