Example sentences of "[adv] could [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The syntactic information for boy and +s below could be combined by a word grammar to produce the syntactic information for boys : e.g. |
| 2 | Dana was steadily centred right in the middle of Libra , and so could be regarded as a perfectly balanced human being , with a true equivalence of male and female , physical and intellectual , animal and spiritual , and I think it was from this delicate balance , never upset , that his magnetic force of personality derived . |
| 3 | The automatic gateway supports automatic distributed queries and automatic distributed transactions that span Oracle and non-Oracle data sources , so that the savings account described above could be moved to a DB2 database on an IBM mainframe in Los Angeles , and the same SQL query and update transactions that worked when all of the data was in an Oracle database will continue to work . |
| 4 | Recognising the value of this support from the credit industry , we believe however that still more could be gained from a new body set up to promote money management education , both in schools and outside . |
| 5 | ‘ A move by a Labour government to get rid of nuclear weapons without agreement internationally could be reversed by a non-Labour government for humankind can never unlearn how to make nuclear weapons — but a nuclear disarmament treaty signed on behalf of Britain by a Labour government could not be reversed . ’ |
| 6 | There 's the kind of repair and maintenance bit , which really could be handled at a more divisional level . |
| 7 | While I certainly accept that the witchcraft beliefs discussed so far could be considered as a variety of religion , this Lugbara data and certain clues in Evans-Pritchard 's account suggest that witchcraft ( or sorcery ) is only part of Zande religion . |
| 8 | An interview overseas could be linked with a visit by the employee and spouse who thus have the opportunity to assess first-hand whether they wish to accept the posting . |
| 9 | Perhaps the aspect of the postwar settlement to which he could most easily reconcile himself was decolonization , because that at least could be understood within a fundamentally nationalist framework . |
| 10 | There must be many , many able Russians who take the same line as the only way forward could be incorporated in a democratic Russia and very , very substantially contribute to its recovery . |