Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judgement could be applied more widely than its immediate target . |
| 2 | Trainees should be given basic skills and then choice could be made later on as something forced on the individual by the structure of the labour market . |
| 3 | Lorraine Shaw says … she wwent to a course at Cheltenham and the coach told her that she could be throwing as far as 60 metres in two years … now her ambition is to break the commonwealth record and eventually the world record |
| 4 | Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 . |
| 5 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |
| 6 | Mr Goodman adds that the company was fortunate to have started up in the recession , because services could be had more cheaply than in easier times . |
| 7 | They said the appointment could be announced as early as Monday . |
| 8 | This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability . |
| 9 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 10 | Maybe it could be done monthly rather than the punishingly weekly ? |
| 11 | But the future of this airline could be decided much sooner than that , and with it the levels of service and fares we can all expect on long haul flights . |
| 12 | However , people could relate true finances and they certainly could be fed back directly if , if we , if we were using estimators . |
| 13 | Moreover , it is also possible that management took the view that unskilled workers could be controlled more easily than skilled workers because they had less powerful union backing , and that they could be replaced more easily because there was a bigger pool of labour to draw from . |
| 14 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 15 | Because there were fewer volosti than communes , the former could be pressurized more easily than the latter . |
| 16 | • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case . |
| 17 | Moreover , it is also possible that management took the view that unskilled workers could be controlled more easily than skilled workers because they had less powerful union backing , and that they could be replaced more easily because there was a bigger pool of labour to draw from . |
| 18 | Moulds do not usually grow fast , and conditions had to be found in which large quantities of Penicillium notatum could be produced as quickly as they were wanted . |
| 19 | The money could be allocated openly rather than through ‘ hidden tax in the form of food prices which hit hardest those least able to pay ’ . |
| 20 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 21 | Recent calls by the Home Office Minister , John Patten , for those who are successful to give three hours a week to voluntary causes could be taken more seriously if overall government policy were not pushing people in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 23 | Both the visual-judgement and category-judgement tasks could be performed quite easily when the readers were distracted by the shadowing task . |
| 24 | According to Jehan Pussot 's Mémorial du temps the price of wine varied enormously : it could be sold as cheaply as 5/6d. a queue ( as in 1579 ) if it was almost undrinkable , while on other occasions , the price would reach as high as 126/6d. ( 1587 ) due to its scarcity . |
| 25 | also the airfield has never not actually be marketed properly it could be marketed much better as , as , as it was to attract more , more executive business and more freight business , freight , airfreight is a greatly expanding business and there are lots of opportunities that this airfield would have in airfreight we 've got erm buildings there we could have warehousing there to deal with airfreight . |
| 26 | Chemics ' manager Frank Myler said : ‘ He could be playing as early as October . |
| 27 | And erm they were determined that we should all work near as proficient in milking to go and take over , so we had to learn to hand milk , to use three different types of milking machines and to do all the necessary sterilizing and everything else , so that we could be used straight away when we got to the farm . |
| 28 | Others have argued that , whatever resources are available to housing , they could be used more effectively than is the case with the present system of MITR . |
| 29 | Both syntactic and semantic information could be used more effectively than at present . |
| 30 | Such investigations could be used more effectively if guidance about the tumour site was available . |