Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 2 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 3 | ‘ That could hardly be called a conciliatory speech , ’ said Isambard delicately . |
| 4 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 5 | MALCOLM ALLISON 'S return to English football with penniless Bristol Rovers could hardly be termed a last ride on the gravy train . |
| 6 | In a truly decentralised system , subsidiary organisations could reasonably be given a few well-defined priorities to which assessments of corporate and individual performance would be related . |
| 7 | Ford , distrusting such easy agreement , would seek support for his views from the more experienced officers of the battalion , but those officers , such as Peter d'Alembord , doubted whether the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers could truthfully be called a veteran battalion . |
| 8 | In his view , it is the failure to develop the social and political attitudes appropriate to a welfare society , which could also be called a democratic socialist society , that is responsible for the limited success in building a welfare state . |
| 9 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 10 | The memory was still fresh of the time when he was considered a world-beater , and in receipt of so much weight from Arkle he could certainly be given a realistic chance . |
| 11 | It could therefore be called a 1-bit data latch . |