Example sentences of "could we " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all knew of your friendship with Korchnoi , he wrote , how could we not , the papers have been so full of it . |
| 2 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Francis , ‘ or should I say Ms. Razorblades , could we attempt lunch ? ’ |
| 3 | Could we climb that fast , even allowing for the more modest grading of most of it ? |
| 4 | Could we borrow , beg or invent one ? |
| 5 | How could we possibly overlook the Schleyer Halle , the Festhalle , the Rothenbaum and the Rochusclub ? |
| 6 | Supposing that we did turn away from the cheap arguments , where could we find a better way ? |
| 7 | Could we not have all guessed that Lt Col Custer ( he gave himself the rank of general ) came 34th out of the class of 34 at West Point . |
| 8 | Could we not argue that the plant or animal responds to the rhythms in its environment anyway ? |
| 9 | ( That , after all , is what is meant by the external cause of a daily rhythm. ) for example , could we not argue that the plant could move its leaves in response to the sun ; the shore-dwelling creature leave its burrow in the mud when the tide recedes ; or the diurnal or nocturnal animal respond to sunrise and sunset ? |
| 10 | Only by doing this could we ever hope to work effectively with the government in the future . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , this will be of great help in ordering raw materials , but sometimes we get part deliveries , could we have an extra facility to deal with those ? |
| 12 | Could we have a Dunsany night some time ? |
| 13 | What could we say then ? ’ |
| 14 | How else could we have appreciated the dangers of ocean pollution , the extraordinary risks that are being taken with nuclear waste ? |
| 15 | Could we be sure in those circumstances that the American president and Congress would be prepared to risk the wholesale destruction of American cities merely to meet our point of view ? |
| 16 | ‘ What could we do with Mrs Thatcher that was not anti-German ? ’ , a senior adviser to the French president asks rhetorically . |
| 17 | What could we know about the greater universe ? |
| 18 | Could we not find out some means ? |
| 19 | If I am to be punished unfairly , could we return to the subject of volunteering for the Parachute School ? ’ |
| 20 | It was a form of patriotism — could we still lead the world in moral , instead of military and economic power ? |
| 21 | In the book I read about this girl who has a celebration when it 's her period , and I asked Mum : could we do that ? |
| 22 | How could we set her aside ? |
| 23 | Could we for God 's sake do something ? |
| 24 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 25 | ‘ Could we get back to A. J. P. Taylor , ’ I cried out , above the sound of both mob and Prime Minister . |
| 26 | How else could we have got to our friends ' lunch , I wondered ? |
| 27 | I just need to … could we be alone , please ? ’ |
| 28 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 29 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 30 | For a man who has contributed so much to the world of chemistry , could we do any less ? |