Example sentences of "could be make [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Far more cross-cultural research , of the type suggested by Cole and Scribner for instance ( ibid. ) , would be necessary before any useful generalisations could be made even about the relative functions and worth of the various parts of these different systems ( such as their punctuation conventions ) .
2 That the number of town dwellers grew and that such a large proportion of output could be made over to the ruling class without permanent and chronic nationwide famine or substantial evidence of huge tax arrears suggest that peasants continued to produce well above subsistence level .
3 It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’
4 However , it is necessary to consider this in a little more detail , for it might be argued that a rather better case could be made out for the materialist theory than the dismissive remarks of the preceding section seem to suggest , provided certain additional facts are taken into consideration .
5 The climb was so steep that in places it could be made only with the help of ropes .
6 But such appointments could be made only to the staff of university extra-mural departments and Approved Associations were excluded .
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