Example sentences of "they could [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A It is unfortunate that you have used only ‘ common ’ names , as some of them could apply to a number of species . |
| 2 | They had no idea that the woman they escorted was far more lethal than ever they could hope to be . |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia was the last place they could travel to without restrictions . |
| 4 | The inspector duly obliged , but when the couple tried to get off he barred them , explaining that on the cheapest ticket they could travel to Leeds and back — but not leave the train . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They could explain to the child why he feels as though the world has turned upside down and why his remaining parent seems so upset . |
| 7 | If that did not work , then they could change to examining their cases . |
| 8 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 9 | Three months later the three older children were told they could go to Britain . |
| 10 | Yet Appendix II ( section 3 ) shows that many people feel that bank loans would be cheaper for them than HP or finance company loans , and better with the manager ‘ a real person ’ they could go to if there was some difficulty over repayments . |
| 11 | ‘ They must go up , and they could go to 12 or 13 per cent . |
| 12 | All went well until 1985 , when museum purchase grants were frozen at the level at which they have remained , the reasoning being that for anything really important , they could go to the NHMF . |
| 13 | And above them you 've got the F B I which means the F B I could come to your state and they would control all the police work , but they could go to another state , whereas all the state police could only work within one state . |
| 14 | " They could go to university and become nurses and teachers . |
| 15 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 16 | For the past 27 years , if they needed help or advice , they could go to the Racial Equality Council centre in Gloucester . |
| 17 | But they 're worried that if they turn it down they could go to the bottom of the housing list . |
| 18 | they could go to parish hall but I 'm thinking to myself well why bother ? |
| 19 | Anyone who has either item which they could lend to FADOS for the production is asked to contact producer Bob Davies on Felixstowe 283133 . |
| 20 | They 've already got at least one bullet from Rotherhithe they could match to it . ’ |
| 21 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 22 | Miguel Rafaelo was right — she had been uptight , nervous of men and afraid of the hurt they could do to her feelings . |
| 23 | They could lead to valuable advances in the whole attitude towards the care of mentally ill people , including areas where the law can not always enter . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My provisional settlement proposals were met by some criticisms that they could lead to substantial increases in council tax levels , increases as high as fifteen percent were suggested . |
| 26 | The number of women poets swelled through the century , not least because they learnt they could speak to one another in this way . |
| 27 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 28 | After about five hours they could speak to each other on the radio , and Spencer asked the Islander pilot to flash his lights to establish contact . |
| 29 | People speak to house plants , so in the latter case they could speak to money as well , which would make a change from money talking . |
| 30 | Those who left service for marriage were as often as not entering an economically less secure situation : rarely one in which they could expect to be " kept " in comfort . |