Example sentences of "that they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt sure that they could haul Simon out with it . |
| 2 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 3 | Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target . |
| 4 | Fleischmann and Pons thought that they could achieve cold fusion by another route . |
| 5 | Some of them were out to show that they could achieve good quality community care at a lower cost than hospitals , or to provide community care which was at least no more expensive than a hospital . |
| 6 | They have achieved notable publicity in some areas , such as the issues of deaths occurring in police custody and government economic strategy , but there is no possibility that they could achieve a significance equal to that of the United States congressional committees . |
| 7 | because validity of the section fourteen is the question for ultimate trial , we 're not seeking interim relief against that , we have n't done that my Lord that in our submission is the highest and the best that they could achieve erm properly erm which was to avoid a stay on a reference and they could then continue with the proceedings rather than be put off for a , a very , you know what maybe a year and a half , er if the court dealt with it in the normal way , or perhaps even a little bit longer , erm , but to actually go to further than that and to deny the defendant the right to put up a , a proper E E C defence , my Lord in my submission would be erm without the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 8 | Equation ( 6 ) above suggests that they could arise from autoregressive behaviour in investors ' target asset holdings . |
| 9 | It was very difficult , indeed , to believe that they could snap open the cages of the treadmills and free Nuadu and the others . |
| 10 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |
| 11 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 12 | These social-work teachers may have a school base ; certainly they would have flexible hours in order that they could meet the needs of young people during times when schools were closed ( early evenings , long holidays ) . |
| 13 | The railway made it worth while for Louise : Gustave was never really far away , however severe he sounded in his letters ; the next one would surely say that they could meet again , that only two hours separated them . |
| 14 | At last , he spoke , and asked when Davide was expected , for he was about to receive his marching orders , and he was hoping that her brother would be back as expected , for the summer holidays from the university , so that they could meet before he left . |
| 15 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 16 | A year later the Government through its " Training Agency " , allowed money to 30 " Urban Programme Areas ' so that they could set up Compacts . |
| 17 | Many projects have set out to demonstrate that they could set up efficient and effective monitoring systems . |
| 18 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 19 | It turned out to be so big that he invited people specially to help eat it , and then it proved so salty that they could manage only a little of it . |
| 20 | In two of the five cases it was the informal carer ( a husband , and a wife ) who refused help , saying that they could manage and did not need assistance . |
| 21 | Taken that way , the book can be said to have shown the problems of hypothesizing about origins ; and also the problems associated with supposing that animals , men or plants were suddenly created , fully-grown so that they could manage on their own . |
| 22 | However , by choosing their specialties and places of work carefully , most people reported that they could fulfil all of their work obligations . |
| 23 | Adam Smith presented them as an example of a small group of workers so strategically placed in the chain of production that they could command high wages . |
| 24 | The PA report was supposed to justify the Government 's programme and ensure that they could press ahead with what they wanted to do . |
| 25 | So , as part of the briefing process , Orpington employees and their families were taken on day trip coach tours to Stevenage so that they could visit the site where the new offices were being built and look at the types of houses and facilities available in the area . |
| 26 | As the children walked ahead , Jack and his wife agreed that they could sense a strange atmosphere , something eerie and unpleasant . |
| 27 | Now one of the consequences that ego analysis was , analysts began to feel confident that they could analyze the defences of the ego , as well as what the ego repressed as a result of its defences . |
| 28 | She selected from among them , knowing that they could eat very little of this forest feast . |
| 29 | Throughout the forest , in glades and clearings , unknown men were burning little piles of leaves so that they could send smoke signals up into the sky . |
| 30 | They were n't aware the were on that they could send them messages . |