Example sentences of "[vb pp] it could [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aristotle added that the manticore 's voice was ‘ like a small trumpet ’ and that it was very wild , although if its tail was bruised it could be tamed without any trouble . |
| 2 | Until your work is saved it could be lost by accident . |
| 3 | And I would have thought it could be accommodated with something like in relation to the Greater York area . |
| 4 | BP , ICL , IBM , Volvo , British Gas in Wales , British Telecom in the South-west , and a clutch of local authorities , many of which had led the way , had all shown it could be done , with Ford announcing its partial ban recently . |
| 5 | Bathing , for instance , had to be forbidden along the fashionable coastline ; some ecologists even suggested that Estonian drinking water was so polluted it could be set on fire ! |
| 6 | However once employment had ended it could be used or disclosed by an employee in competition with his former employer . |
| 7 | Authority officers have suggested it could be used as a private day care nursery or for church activities by the Christian Fellowship . |