Sentence examples for could do rather from inspiring English sources

"I was interested in what architecture could do, rather than in how beautiful it was," he told me.

All of which is a way of getting to the one 2010-er who could do rather well in a contest, though probably not win it.

In the end, the Fifth is more notable for showing us what Bruckner could do, rather than what he did do.

Mack said that when he wrote the characters Echo (who is deaf) and Daredevil (who is blind), he wanted to focus on what they could do rather than what society sees as their disability.

The new desktop computers, he thought, should be able to work on more than one task a time (something that at that point only much bigger computers could do), rather than forcing users to twiddle their thumbs as they waited for new applications to launch.

"I've tried rock climbing, canoeing, wheelchair basketball and all those things gave me a positive outlook about what I could do rather than thinking about what I couldn't," he said.

In 49 Up she rounded on Apted for being judgmental, suggesting he made too much of her illness and concentrated on what she couldn't do rather than what she could.

What's wrong with a wristband, you ask, holding out an arm wrapped to the elbow with old fraying festival bands, all of them from back in 2008 when you were young, and the sun shone, and it really did seem like your life might have a purpose, and fun was something you could actually do rather than an impossible Saturday-night mountain you try to scale before collapsing, exhausted, into bed.

Wouldn't it be nice if here, upon the occasion of the varied and textured shortlist that marks the 2012 prize, we thought about what the short story could do - rather than simply reiterate what it's always done?

"I think in this country we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

THINK about what you could do — or rather not do — in your own life that would put these principles into play.