Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is a simple one ; begin working our dwindling woodland again and we could be providing the best argument for preserving it . |
| 2 | This looks even more unconstitutional — but while the lawyers debate that question , the government could be holding the monetary line . |
| 3 | The higher the proportion of this population which could be contacted the better . |
| 4 | If a three-year course could be justified the supporting subjects would probably be covered in the first year but care would have to be taken not to put too great an emphasis on the technology . |
| 5 | and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ? |
| 6 | If this does not happen we could be facing the appalling prospect of over half the UK 's coal production coming from a method that was only initially allowed as an emergency War-time contingency . |
| 7 | assimilation of the green form scheme with legal aid when the levels of eligibility and contribution could be made the same , with eligibility limits raised ; |
| 8 | The reply was that he could be seen the following Wednesday for a fee of £45 . |
| 9 | In the cave could be seen the vague outlines of a rocking horse and the sharper scarlet of its flaring nostrils , and stiff-limbed puppets , dressed in rich , sombre colours , dangling from their strings ; but the brown varnish of the horse and the plums and purples of the puppets made such a murk together that very little could be seen . |
| 10 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
| 11 | Near the top of the hill stood the large white building which was the San Martino Museum and above it , and in contrast to the museum 's firm elegant lines , could be seen the solid brown ramparts of St Elmo 's Castle . |
| 12 | John Clamp , the chief executive of Combined Actuarial Performance Services , which monitors the performance of 1,800 pension funds valued at £185 billion , said the immediate impact could be to force the many employers using fund surpluses to take contributions holidays to start funding again . |
| 13 | Peter Rogers , however , is adamant that neither of then could be called the real star of the ‘ Carry Ons ’ . |
| 14 | We adopt , therefore , an approach which might appropriately be termed the unorthodox view as opposed to what could be called the traditional view . |
| 15 | The first could be called the modal use , because it has the same kind of force as the modal use , ‘ probably ’ , and the second the psychological use because it makes a statement about one 's own psychological state of belief . |
| 16 | As the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) and his Front-Bench team are so singularly ill-informed , why does not my right hon. Friend invite them to the Department for a teach-in , when they could be given the true facts and figures ? |
| 17 | When the paper introduced direct input in 1986 it was clear that articles created electronically could be stored the same way . |
| 18 | The cost was £105 , including the organist and £3 for the box for the ashes , which , I was told , could be collected the next morning . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's right , Jacques , ’ breathed Fräulein Müller , in a tone suggesting that such a very handsome officer could be forgiven the occasional minor indiscretion . |
| 20 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
| 21 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |
| 22 | With no-one left to take the lines Second Coxswain William Davies and assistant mechanic John Jonas went aboard and secured the lifeboat , but before the stern line could be attached the heavy swell rolled the lifeboat 's starboard quarter against the vessel 's side bending the quarter rails . |
| 23 | 1 we examined the purposes of research into materials and considered what could be termed the theoretical , the practical and the analytical approaches to materials research . |
| 24 | It is also worth noting that efficiency should not be considered until the effectiveness is proven , the procedure could be doing the wrong thing in an extremely efficient manner . |
| 25 | For example , a student with Standard Grade Science at Grade 5/6 who wished to progress in Biological Sciences could be offered the above programme in a biology context and follow it with a further programme of Stage 1 Biological Sciences modules . |
| 26 | What it meant to move towards school records could be to increase the subjective , teacher-controlled element in selection or to diminish the relative effects of differences between teachers or schools — it was never an unambiguous change . |
| 27 | Between them they tied a rope from the vehicle to the bridge and dragged it back into position so it could be opened the correct way . |
| 28 | A further use for videos could be to show the older farmers , who were not at present making use of training , alternative methods of performing tasks . |
| 29 | Designed in close co-operation with engineers , ergonomic experts and orthopaedic specialists , it achieves what could be deemed the impossible ; you 'll be relaxed yet alert . |
| 30 | Another management system could be to calculate the modest savings achievable by practices or locally based groups of practices and to pay this sum to those who achieve the target . |