Example sentences of "could [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat what I have always said : 175 is the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the number required after the transitional period to carry out the duties that I have described . |
| 2 | My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House . |
| 3 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 4 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 5 | We could think of the extremes of its swing to be called states A and B. We can see that the pendulum is not stable in either of these states . |
| 6 | She should give his hello to any of the boys who were still around and in the meantime could think of the home they were going to build in South Africa . |
| 7 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 8 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 9 | Those of us who had to stay at our posts ( ‘ laborare est orare ’ said our text-book expert ) could think of the prayer John and Janet Page had composed for us . |
| 10 | The figure that the hon. Gentleman is quoting from the newspaper article bears no relation to the figures that I used , which constituted the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could give of the numbers required to carry out the policy . |
| 11 | All Mr Ross could remember of the burglars was that they both had Glasgow voices and called each other Pat and Jim . |
| 12 | Between them they supplied all they could remember of the encounter by the roped-off enclosure above the river . |
| 13 | ‘ All I could see of the explosion was this huge cloud of dust . |
| 14 | All he could see of the lifeboat was her searchlight beam , and with that as his only reference he guided her to the scene . |
| 15 | What he could see of the flat told him nothing . |
| 16 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 17 | ‘ We should have looked first ! ’ he declared abjectly when all they could see of the scene below and beyond was of rooftops and forest shrouded in mist and rain . |
| 18 | Quickly that if what you 're saying is true that how that erm they wanted to er that they , they did n't care that this could lead to excesses because they could control of the situation , was n't that a bit damnable because supposing they could n't ? |
| 19 | Photography altered our entire concept of illustration ; we could conceive of the apparently objective record , and thus recognize that some other forms of record included the recorder in unacceptable form . |
| 20 | I am tempted to quote Oliver Cromwell and to ask whether the hon. Lady could conceive of the possibility that she might be wrong . |
| 21 | Joyce called together such members as he could gather of the National Socialist League and its intellectual offshoot the Carlyle Club . |
| 22 | and could tell of the netted lemon groves |
| 23 | He wanted , from his own point of view , as much as he could get of the best of both worlds . |
| 24 | I chopped up the chicken itself and I put it and what I could rescue of the rice and a bit more rice which was in the cupboard into a frying pan with a stock cube and some water and I sort of poached it all together . ’ |
| 25 | Neither could dispose of the inheritance without the consent of the other . |
| 26 | In the meantime , of course , the Administration could dispose of the general inspector 's office to another party while being sure of the political interest of Deacon Murray , a result which in all probability was anticipated by the astute Milton . |
| 27 | Unless she could dispose of the same modern means of transport and production , the same machinery and armaments , Russia could not hope to uphold her political independence . |
| 28 | Erm , on , I put in because it was the worst example I could find of the abuse of psychoanalysis for destroying somebody 's personality , personality assassination by , by er a psychoanalysis . |
| 29 | The Deputy Under Secretary could talk of his host 's prospects and disappointments , he could learn of the problems of digging out foreign exchange and hard currency in the Third World , the tribulations over the renewal of Residence Permits , the difficulties of keeping reliable servants , but of his own world he must remain silent . |