Example sentences of "could [vb infin] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if child survival were simply a question of affluence as you might think it was , there 's no way you could explain these figures . |
| 2 | However it was then pointed out by a biologist that tiny movements by the plant could explain these variations . |
| 3 | Erm do you think I could throw these roses out ? |
| 4 | If there was one she could plant these seeds . |
| 5 | A later survey in Sheffield showed how membership of a majority party , and consequently the opportunity to implement policies one agreed with , could influence these preferences . |
| 6 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 7 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 8 | We got to thinking that if we came to Los Angeles regularly we could make these shows all the time and send them to English-speaking countries all over the world . |
| 9 | I would be grateful if you could convey these views to the committee which is considering the legislation . |
| 10 | One Victorian explorer reported that he could catch these cats and tether them near his food stores to keep the rats down . |
| 11 | The magnetic field would be so strong that it could focus these particles into jets ejected outward along the axis of rotation of the black hole , that is , in the directions of its north and south poles . |
| 12 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |
| 13 | If they can afford to go there , then why do n't they , you know , if you have two pints in there I mean it 's , it 's a meal really , cos I , I could give these kids a meal for about a one pound , one pound fifty . |
| 14 | The introduction of automated office systems could carry these processes still further , thus undermining many of the assumptions and procedures which we have conventionally applied to archival work ( Gavrel 1990 : Hedstrom 1991 ) . |
| 15 | The Duchess of Kent today opened a centre in Oxford which could ease these difficulties . |
| 16 | Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 19 | Later I put one on the wall of my study so that I could watch these changes in my appearance . |
| 20 | Had n't she pretended , deliberately , to be younger than she was so she could do these things under the guise of innocence ? |
| 21 | But who would have thought that a humble human could do these calculations ? |
| 22 | And she could use these groups to provide some forms of education for parenthood . |
| 23 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 24 | ‘ Since the reforms from Third World markets are so small , it does n't matter if they do n't come , therefore we could donate these genes to the Third World ’ , he says , and supports a new initiative by a former deputy director of the International Wheat and Maize Centre ( CIMMYT ) to set up a gene brokerage between the rich and poor nations . |
| 25 | If a decision is made to proceed with a purchase , then the sequence of events could follow these lines : |
| 26 | She had heard her mother say that she could provide these things , but that the days were long and lonely on her own and she would like to meet people and to earn her own money , no matter how small . |
| 27 | There are many ways in which we could meet these specifications in a computer model . |
| 28 | Any animal that could detect these waves would have a reliable indicator of weather changes ahead . |
| 29 | Once she had believed she could control these feelings , but in reality that was proving not so easy to do . |
| 30 | Conversely , we would be impressed by another yogi who could alter these processes in his intestines on a word of command but made no claims to know what was going on down there from moment to moment . |