Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | That in itself did not necessarily matter ; experience had shown that Scotland could successfully cope with a series of minorities . |
| 2 | They could successfully compete with the true mammals who also evolved in the late Triassic ( and who also acquired the upright gait shortly after the archosaurs ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The experience we gained through High Island gave us the confidence to know we could successfully work with Tatham , ’ Broussard says . |
| 4 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 5 | It was like the blackout , which Charles could suddenly remember with great clarity . |
| 6 | HARD-working Tie Rack designers could perhaps do with a rest . |
| 7 | I mean , like Dave said , I mean , alright we could perhaps do with a superstore , but not the . |
| 8 | Yeah they have to be deep littered all winter but they could perhaps do with a clean though that 's not bad in there . |
| 9 | probably erm the clerk could perhaps deal with that then . |
| 10 | The writer would like to consider this document in some detail at a later date , but could perhaps close with two questions : |
| 11 | No the , the principle of it is good , we could all do with a bit more muscle building than we have . |
| 12 | The fact that the Erne outfit could only draw with Armagh on Sunday last despite having home advantage does not lessen McCabe 's optimism as he anticipates this week-end 's replay at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 13 | For some reason she could only move with nightmarish sluggishness , while everyone around her tore past with dizzying speed . |
| 14 | Less than two centuries ago , when the English Romantics saw the Alps they could only stare with wild surmise . |
| 15 | Rosemary Roche , 35 , of Gillingham , Kent , endured five years of pain and for a while could only walk with a stick , said Deputy High Court Judge Morrison . |
| 16 | My feet were sometimes so painful and swollen that I could only walk with my heels out of my shoes . |
| 17 | And hell , I thought ; I had been tired ; I was tired still , and I would phone that evening — definitely — and say I 'd fallen asleep , and nobody would be too bothered , and after all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day … of course I 'd phone . |
| 18 | Initial , would have to be interpreted as initial , plus post-initial , , with the result that the post-initial set of consonants would have to contain , , , and also , — consonants which are rather different from the other four and which could only combine with , . |
| 19 | And enjoying his own agonizing neverending penance , of which his Marines could only whisper with awe . |
| 20 | There was nothing General Francis could do , and because of his arthritis he could only sit with any comfort on a hard chair . |
| 21 | There was such comfort , such happiness with him that she could only sigh with pleasure . |
| 22 | Royal attempts , such as Ine 's in the seventh century or Edgar 's in the tenth , to promulgate codes could only meet with success where local practices were not too obviously threatened . |
| 23 | There was a lot of noise , much broken glass and Bernard and Laura could only guess with horror at the disreputable behaviour until they found evidence on the lawn the following morning . |
| 24 | A male is potentially capable of fertilizing hundreds of females , if he could only copulate with them . |
| 25 | ‘ I could only speak with a muffle . ’ |
| 26 | Lansdowne and Law could only accede with as good a grace as they could muster ; the party was therefore committed to a full policy of imperial preference , but food taxes would be excluded unless approved by a second general election . |
| 27 | As the courses came and went , she could only toy with her food . |
| 28 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 29 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 30 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |