Example sentences of "they could [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LTSS came back to Keith yesterday with a request for an official order for the network points and cabling , which they said they could carry out next week . |
| 2 | It was something he found hard to understand , though of course it must be accepted , this escape of children from the parental bonds so that they could have secrets from you and hiding places you could n't penetrate , that they were adults and possessed houses and cars which you had no hand in choosing or buying , that they could lock up those houses as they locked up their thoughts . |
| 3 | ‘ The told me that they alone had cracked the system ; they said only they could fix up proper contracts with local authorities on behalf of their clients . |
| 4 | At 2250 hrs that evening Eighth Army confirmed in a signal to 5 Corps that they were to act in accordance with AFHQ 's ruling that they could hand over all the anti-Tito Yugoslavs so long as this did not involve use of force . |
| 5 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 6 | The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ? |
| 7 | They could bring about fundamental changes in many everyday devices ; for example braking systems , robotics , valves , clutches , shock absorbers , activators and vibration dampers are all applications currently being studied and developed . |
| 8 | I do n't believe that , erm that they could bring out that statement goes kind of . |
| 9 | Sami Jafaar was confident he could persuade Hamadan to renew his friendship with Younis , and that , between them , they could cook up some pretext to lure Younis out of Lebanon into neutral territory for an FBI snatch . |
| 10 | Many projects have set out to demonstrate that they could set up efficient and effective monitoring systems . |
| 11 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |
| 12 | So if these neutrons come smashing into your body , they could break up any of chemicals that are very important for your life , for your body chemistry . |
| 13 | They could accommodate over one hundred ships of the type operating at that time . |
| 14 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |
| 15 | Not only are the films expected to increase awareness of Harlequin books , but they could open up another business : Harlequin 's heart throbs about video . |
| 16 | They could turn out that for what it 'd cost us to tile them ! |
| 17 | They could let down extra wires to hold the branch and winch it up when it was cut free . |
| 18 | It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar . |
| 19 | Or if you were doing water they could pick out two of the four things that you wanted about water . |
| 20 | Just by looking maybe they could pick out those who had , or had n't . |
| 21 | So he was brought to trial so they could test out this , this whole situation , get to the bottom of it and the , the high priest Kiathas was the central figure in organising the troops . |