Example sentences of "could be [verb] [conj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the move towards disintermediation , it could be argued that many banks are driven to taking on less credit-worthy customers , with associated increases in credit risk . |
| 2 | In primitive societies with small , self-sufficient units there was no differentiation between centre and periphery , and it could be argued that many peasants in Russia remained at this level of perception during NEP . |
| 3 | It could be argued that such questions are of little value as respondents may be unwilling to label themselves as being in poor health . |
| 4 | Given the distribution of older people throughout the different medical specialisms it could be argued that all doctors ( and nurses ) should receive some training in the main aspects of geriatric medicine , with its emphasis upon rehabilitation and the role of multi-disciplinary care and assessment . |
| 5 | Erm so er I mean it could be argued that those figures go in there . |
| 6 | It could be argued that these provisions would justify allowing any person to challenge exercises of power A , but also applying a more restrictive standing rule ( perhaps something like ‘ special interest ’ ) to challenges to exercises of power B on the ground that Parliament had intended the government body in question to be the prime guardian of the public interest in the exercise of power B. |
| 7 | It could be argued that these groups were formed as much for sociability as for making money , being made up of friends or acquaintances , but at any event their reasons fell short of promoting definite artistic programmes . |
| 8 | It could be argued that these opinions would in any event have prevailed . |
| 9 | It could be argued that these criteria are too rigid . |
| 10 | It could be argued that these ideas were deliberately peddled in Dunrossness . |
| 11 | Little progress could be made until these cancers could be reproduced by experiments in animals . |
| 12 | Economic welfare could be increased if more resources were channelled into this industry and production increased up to Qc with a consequent lowering of prices . |
| 13 | Talks broke down on April 22 over the allocation of government posts , although on April 11 it had appeared that a coalition could be formed when all parties agreed that the budget deficit should not exceed 5 per cent gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 14 | The British hardly conceived the French could be defeated and few Americans expected to be embroiled in a global war . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Baker was talking about the danger that could be caused if those controls were swept aside . ’ |
| 16 | Many of these deaths could be avoided if more women had regular smear tests ( known as cervical screening or cervical cytology ) . |
| 17 | The release of the three reinforced the prospect of others using the political defence against extradition , seeking to persuade Irish courts not to extradite those charged with terrorist offences if it could be proved that such offences had been committed in the cause of the reunification of Ireland . |
| 18 | They were convinced that scientific advances and improved living standards were steps toward a higher civilization and the general improvement of mankind , and that in time all human problems could be solved and all abuses eliminated . |
| 19 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 20 | It could be forgotten that these limitations are also set by environmental factors . |
| 21 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 22 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |