Example sentences of "[adv] could be [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such problems can quickly develop into the situation revealed among the 20-50 employee size range in the job generation study — and perhaps could be improved by the development of support networks . |
| 2 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 3 | The syntactic information for boy and +s below could be combined by a word grammar to produce the syntactic information for boys : e.g. |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But to do so could be seen as the prelude to a deliberate devaluation , rather than the logical consequence of the German action . |
| 6 | Although this was a far cry from the power and authority of a body like the United States Supreme Court , it nevertheless could be seen as the beginning of a practical appreciation of the concept of constitutionality as understood in the West . |
| 7 | The analysis above could be expressed in the following rules : In these rules the arrow means written as . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | There 's the kind of repair and maintenance bit , which really could be handled at a more divisional level . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is easy to see that this was a practical means of enclosing a large volume which then could be used for the storage of grain , and the profile is reminiscent of the gambrel-roofed hay barns in the USA . |
| 17 | Topic-shifts in written discourse then could be identified with the beginning of each new paragraph . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Also we have shown that if energy conservation becomes a reality in Britain , £2 billion yearly nationwide could be saved by the domestic consumer , which would regenerate the local economies instead of heating the sky above our great cities and towns . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In these awards there are elements of Buggins 's Turn and resurrection , but what else could be expected of the merry band of superannuated politicians commanded to commend the necessary artists ? |
| 22 | Burton travelled to observe and communicate , which made him different from most explorers of the day , but he too could be touched by the inexplicable fever of travel : ‘ … some thousand miles up a river with an infinitesimal prospect of returning ! |
| 23 | However , Israel discovered , just like the United States , that it too could be thwarted by the weaker and more vulnerable contestants in the conflict . |