Example sentences of "they could [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence . |
| 2 | With the city in such a ferment , they could be stopped on a whim by police or soldiers . |
| 3 | I often hear and read stories of anglers spending weeks on end in search of Fenland zander with very little to show for it and yet with a little thought they could be catching on a regular basis . |
| 4 | It was asked , when the estate had been entered in accordance with the second will , whether the debtors who had been released in the first will could secure that they should be released even from debt which they had begun to owe after the first will , and if , should the heirs try to sue for it , they could be debarred by a defence of bad faith . |
| 5 | They were not thought particularly interesting , until , in 1952 , Herring and Galt chanced to bend some tin whiskers and noticed that they could be bent to a strain of about 2 per cent and still recover elastically . |
| 6 | If the cicadas erupted every 14 years , for instance , they could be exploited by a parasite species with a 7-year life cycle . |
| 7 | Advertisements may range in size from a small window notice to a massive hoarding ; they vary in purpose from a bus stop sign to the demand to buy a certain make of detergent ; they could be situated alongside a cathedral , in a busy shopping street , or in a particularly beautiful rural setting ; they might be pleasant or obnoxious to look at ; they might be temporary or permanent ; and so on . |
| 8 | They could be seen as a bridge forming an almost tangible link between the ‘ two worlds ’ of spirit and matter . |
| 9 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 10 | They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme . |
| 11 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 12 | The parent trees would be retained for several years after the new trees had been planted at the new site , just so that they could be used as a reference for checking . |
| 13 | SDRs could now be used more freely among participating countries : it became possible to use them to settle obligations without changing them first into currencies ; they could be loaned to other countries ; and they could be used as a security for a loan by another central bank or government . |
| 14 | The second test , favoured by the minority , was that the goods would be merchantable if they could be used by a reasonable buyer for at least one of their normal purposes . |
| 15 | Forrestal was a believer in the theory that it was too dangerous for atomic weapons to be manufactured and stored in the United Kingdom , where they could be overrun in a Soviet invasion of Western Europe . |
| 16 | Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value . |
| 17 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 18 | Unlike advertising , however , they could be excluded from a definition of mass media because by twentieth-century standards they did not spread their messages quickly and simultaneously , nor to audiences that were large in relation to the communities within which they circulated . |
| 19 | If he did n't become a telly millionaire turning out musical trash they could be flogged for a few pounds . |
| 20 | All these men , excepting Fawzi , were Zuwaya , and all were therefore related — — they could be shown on a single genealogy . |