Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland was still a divided and badly governed nation and David thought that progress to a well-ordered State could be achieved most quickly and effectively by an extension of Norman influence . |
| 2 | It could be argued even so that in 10 cases the investigative work turned out to be a waste of time and caused great distress to the families investigated . |
| 3 | The judgement could be applied more widely than its immediate target . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 6 | Alternate benches were so made that the back could be swung over so that by a simple movement you had two benches facing each other instead of one behind the other and back-to-back with the adjoining classes , the teacher sitting on a chair between the ends of the benches . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They said the appointment could be announced as early as Monday . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Perkins had discovered , however , that such preparations could be done more safely and conveniently in iron vessels , and probably visited the Locksfields factory to advise on such improvements . |
| 13 | Automatic equipment meant that many of the relatively routine tasks could be done more quickly and more accurately . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Maybe it could be done monthly rather than the punishingly weekly ? |
| 16 | The separate English Service was ended in 1970 and incorporated into the External Service , which could be heard both inside and outside the country . |
| 17 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 18 | So with this this stone could be built in so that it 's facing the road could n't it ? |
| 19 | Produce could be moved more rapidly and in a fresher state by truck . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These were safer than petrol engines , more suitable because they could be run more slowly and could be connected directly to the propeller . |
| 22 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 23 | However , people could relate true finances and they certainly could be fed back directly if , if we , if we were using estimators . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But most cuts have been justified on the slender base that services could be operated more efficiently and economically , and any fall in standards could be averted by careful management and avoidance of waste . |
| 26 | The first was a harmony of the four Gospels , so arranged that the four books could be read either separately or in one continuous story ; each page was illustrated with engravings , and richly bound by the hands of the ladies of Gidding . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because there were fewer volosti than communes , the former could be pressurized more easily than the latter . |
| 29 | Meyers ( 1974 , 1978 ) pioneered cement stratigraphy , demonstrating that ‘ zones ’ of carbonate cements , as revealed by their CL and other petrographic characteristics , could be correlated both vertically and regionally in the Mississippian of the Sacramento Mountains , New Mexico . |
| 30 | An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that |