Example sentences of "[coord] could be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on to consider , however , whether the court 's jurisdiction over the question whether the housing authority had provided was only supervisory , or could be challenged in private law proceedings . |
| 2 | According to Nikolay Gubyenko , former USSR Minister of Culture , claims have already been lodged or could be lodged for 3,017,128 works of art . |
| 3 | He could not identify the Fairy Topic , either , and this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance , a grey mist , in which floated or could be discerned odd glimpses of solid objects , odd bits of glitter of domes or shadows of roofs in the gloom . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not believe that the legislature ever intended that the powers contained in paragraph 1 , with the sanction of criminal penalties , should or could be invoked to obtain information or documents of a potentially incriminating nature from one who had already been cautioned and charged with offences under the Act … |
| 5 | Which aspects of black or female cultures are or could be incorporated into high status knowledge ? |
| 6 | A ‘ day certain ’ may be a fixed date or could be fixed b reference to the seller 's performance of his part of the contract . |
| 7 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 8 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 9 | There is no sense of how the various points discussed earlier in the book should or could be applied , for we are simply presented with certain aspects of the play 's style and development . |
| 10 | It was , or could be called , an impurity . |
| 11 | No one dares ask whether any of it is worthwhile or could be done far more cheaply . |
| 12 | In the event , of course , nothing was or could be done . |
| 13 | If you are owed or could be owed a considerable amount , or any amount , it is important for you to know that : |
| 14 | All might preserve some religious truth and meaning , but none could be allowed to make any absolute claims , though each would be acceptable to the extent — but only to the extent — that it conformed or could be made to conform to the standard of natural religion , conceived of as a set of beliefs or principles which could stand very well on their own feet . |
| 15 | But in fact no such argument is or could be made , for it is indisputable and undisputed that this is just what Parliament set out to do , and has effectively done . |
| 16 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 17 | All of them tended to assume that the territorial division of Europe as it stood at the moment of their publication was , or could be made , permanent and sacrosanct . |
| 18 | Child benefit could be made taxable , or could be restricted to women whose children are not yet of school age . |
| 19 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 20 | The vans could be operated singly , or could be coupled together to form a train , for which purpose they were provided with gangways . |
| 21 | Fortunately , both those clauses enjoy the protection of unanimous voting or could be changed when they came to practical application into law . |
| 22 | The design can be knitted as a single motif of 80 stitches by 80 rows , could be doubled in size by using the double length and double width buttons for a very large rhino , or could be knitted as a savannah scene with a second single motif of a acacia thorn tree . |
| 23 | Within aristocratic and mercantile societies , conflicts about style and tendency , as well as more general social and economic tensions and conflicts in arts practice , were often resolved , or could be attempted to be resolved , by movement from one patron or kind of patron or intermediary to another . |
| 24 | The materials in stock could be resold for £4,000 less 10% selling expenses , or could be used to produce another product after some further processing . |
| 25 | Examples of possible syllabic velar nasals would be ‘ thicken ’ ( where and are also possible ) , and ‘ broken key ’ , where the nasal consonant occurs between velar consonants ( again , or could be substituted for ) . |
| 26 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 27 | " In regard Janet NcCalman charmer hath not constant place of residence nor could be found by several church officers . |
| 28 | " In regard Janet NcCalman charmer hath not constant place of residence nor could be found by several church officers . |
| 29 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 30 | On Monday she had gone to her job — improbably she appeared to be a supervisor for a market research firm — as usual , and could be vouched for by colleagues there . |