Example sentences of "could [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in this context relevant to mention briefly section 9 of the General Rate Act 1967 which provided that an amount paid in respect of rates ‘ and not recoverable apart from this section ’ could properly be refunded on five specified grounds , some of which would fall within the Woolwich principle . |
| 2 | At p. 700F , the court gave its approval to a shortened version of the direction ( which , in the court 's view , could properly be given at any stage ) . |
| 3 | Furthermore , there would be " domains " where Creole and English could properly be used by those who speak them : Creole in the family and in informal situations , English within the public domain outside the family and even within the family on formal occasions . |
| 4 | Such statistics could eventually be converted into real terms to show changes in the levels of Soviet aid , and into current prices for comparison with Western aid . |
| 5 | The new venture , co-ordinated by the US Council for Automotive Research , will investigate design , development , testing and possible manufacturing of electric vehicle components that could eventually be used in each of the companies ' vehicles . |
| 6 | These contradictory data could perhaps be explained by different viruses having a role in different geographical areas . |
| 7 | The meteorological aspects of the German winter have already been discussed , and could perhaps be reread at this point ( p. 36 ) . |
| 8 | A simple pro forma could perhaps be designed to this end for 1993 . |
| 9 | A simple pro forma could perhaps be designed to this end for 1993 . |
| 10 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 11 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 12 | They could only be understood by those educated as courtiers . |
| 13 | If tutors were not doing their job as required they would be reported to National Council and their accredition would be withdrawn , and Institute students could only be taught by accredited tutors . |
| 14 | Lucerne , on which Young set such high hopes , could only be grown on deep soils or on irrigated land , and there it was to produce a minor revolution . ’ |
| 15 | It was against self-will and worldly desires that he set his face ; and these could only be overcome by personal conversion . |
| 16 | The secular arm could only be enlisted in specific cases against named and duly warned individuals ; it could offer no aid against those categories of offenders pronounced , in various general and local sentences , as excommunicate ipso facto . |
| 17 | The exhaust emissions standards could only be met with current technology by installing three-way catalytic converters in petrol-driven vehicles . |
| 18 | They were enemies of the sovereign , public thieves , full of vice , and atheists whose pernicious doctrine could only be met by illuminating men 's minds with geometry , physics , and astronomy . |
| 19 | The Centre for Research on User Studies asked its respondents to indicate ‘ topics for which you think there is most need for external provision of training ’ , and while there was little evidence of lack of interest in external training or lack of perceived need , there was also little evidence of discrimination between needs that could be met by a range of methods and needs that could only be met by external provision . |
| 20 | LABOUR delegates were warned yesterday that the party would lack electoral credibilty if it promised increases in public spending which could only be met by higher borrowing or taxes . |
| 21 | The family celebration , at his grandmother 's house where they frequently met , was enjoyable — to a point , but the loss of his father could only be exacerbated at such a time . |
| 22 | In virtue of 5.33 of the 1959 Act , a certificate to sell liquor could only be granted under that Act to an individual person . |
| 23 | The wall opposite the door , constructed of rows of teak slats , contained two seamless sliding doors , invisible to the naked eye , which could only be activated by miniature sonic transmitters . |
| 24 | Her antiseptic presence transformed Mr Sunderland 's office into a place where children were condemned not to the cane or detention but to threadworms or impetigo or a terrible weakness of the chest that could only be treated in some distant sanatorium . |
| 25 | The Brecknell-Munro ‘ B/1 ’ trolley mast was slightly offset towards one side and one end , although identical in appearance to those on Corporation cars , these could only be turned to one side and small arrows had to be painted on the bulkheads ( later inside the headlamp . ) |
| 26 | Adenauer and the Western allies insisted that Germany could only be reunited through free , national elections , and with the freedom to pursue a pro-Western policy , and Adenauer utterly rejected the idea that East Germany could be a sovereign state , such as the Soviets declared it to be in September 1955 . |
| 27 | It would , however , be incorrect to assume that syntactic aspects of language production could only be influenced by automatic accessing of particular lexical items . |
| 28 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) noted that A. ingolfiana and A. norvegica were very similar and could only be distinguished from one another by the following characters ; the shape of the genital plate which has two branches in A. ingolfiana but in A. norvegica the abradial branch — the one on the ventral interradial side of the genital plate is reduced and broadened , while the radial shields which are more rounded on the proximal abradial — outer side in A. ingolfiana while in A. norvegica this side is more angular . |
| 29 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 30 | The first , Phan Boi Chau , believed that the French had to be removed — and that this could only be achieved through armed struggle . |