Example sentences of "it could [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon . |
| 2 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 3 | A CO band above 1900 cm -1 is therefore almost certainly due to a terminal CO ; a band below this frequency may be due to a bridging ligand , but it could also be ascribed to a terminal ligand with some unusually severe reduction of the CO bond strength through back-bonding . |
| 4 | So although the law is mainly directed at shopkeepers , it could also be applied to anyone who sells or gives a young person a sniffable product . |
| 5 | It could also be said to be an example of the developed use of experienced laymen to assist in the determination of disputes . |
| 6 | Since the unit almost certainly operated some Piper Cubs , it could loosely be said to be an airfield memorial ! |
| 7 | Even as this work was being carried out , freight traffic was in decline and BR soon made clear its intention to close the line as it could not be converted to 25 Kv AC . |
| 8 | It may have been an exhibition of the Tennant family wealth but it could not be added to their list of credits . |
| 9 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 10 | Whatever else Christmas Day at Laura 's might be , it could n't be guaranteed to be quiet , he thought . |
| 11 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 12 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |
| 13 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 14 | The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent . |
| 15 | It could hardly be put to worse . |
| 16 | It could only be assimilated to it if ‘ I disapprove of prostitution ’ were treated as a tentative way of saying that prostitution is wrong , that is , as a tentative expression of an attitude against prostitution rather than as an expression of one 's awareness of one 's own disapproval of it . |
| 17 | It could only be given to a child in very mild doses because excessive use could cause ‘ retard growth and lasting disfiguration ’ . |
| 18 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |