Example sentences of "could [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burgh politics could be a hard game for little people , for they could be badly injured by those against whom they acted . |
| 2 | Some , including Kent County Council , believe that large scale induced development will not occur without positive government intervention and that some towns such as Dover could be badly affected by the loss of their traditional ferry business . |
| 3 | Locals say children could be badly hurt by barbed wire behind the shops and have complained about fresh food deliveries being left just feet from rotting rubbish . |
| 4 | C. Dunlop and Walter Weldon [ q.v. ] had devised methods for converting this noxious waste to chlorine ( which could be profitably combined with lime to make bleaching powder ) but they were both expensive and wasteful . |
| 5 | Finally , the departmental , engineering side also laid claim to its own clearly defined fleet of engines , which could be profitably loaned to the sectors at times of peak demand . |
| 6 | As a non-physicist I have often wondered if the difference in photon energy ( E' — E = hf' — hf ) of the shifted and unshifted light could be wholly accounted for by the effect of the surface velocity ( v ) acting together with the particle equivalent mass of the photon . |
| 7 | Then , as before , at one extreme , unc can contain n — q columns of the minor , which are linearly independent ; at the other extreme , the minor could be wholly contained in unc and unc could be null , when D has degeneracy |
| 8 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 9 | It is possible that other radioactive metals such as plutonium could be similarly dealt with . |
| 10 | The rule that criminal proceedings are conducted in open court would be hollow unless those proceedings could be freely reported by the press and television , and the media in general . |
| 11 | Saltworks on the River Weaver could be economically supplied with Wigan 's coal to dry the salt . |
| 12 | Even today , lukewarm wine of an inferior quality drunk by an alcoholic actor could be colloquially described as ‘ a piss-artist 's piss-warm gnat 's piss ’ . |
| 13 | Current Cheltenham second favourite Mighty Mogul is likely to head the market here but , in a race that could be slowly run in the absence of an obvious front-runner , he is worth opposing . |
| 14 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 15 | They believe that one of the most common cancers , liver cancer , could be largely prevented by a vaccine . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the penal crisis is not simply a by-product of a ‘ crisis of capitalism ’ , and it could be largely solved without a complete political and social revolution . |
| 17 | The Auditor General 's criticism of the excessive overlap between shifts , which in some hospitals was found to be too generous to allow only for handover and meal breaks , could be largely countered by establishing the correct balance of staff employed full-time with others employed on a part-time basis . |
| 18 | Our knowledge of deliberate self-poisoning in young people indicates that such measures could be largely confined to girls . |
| 19 | From this he showed that they could be temporarily fooled into changing real output by nominal spending movements , the effects of which on prices they had not fully expected . |
| 20 | You can not be aware of class without being aware of snobbery and the young Burton could be temporarily affected by that . |
| 21 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 22 | Wooden bows are rarely preserved , although one was described by the excavator as a ‘ bow , about five feet in length , which could be distinctly traced by the dark line of decomposed wood ’ ( Hillier 1856 , p. 30 ) . |
| 23 | After this , he could be hastily driven to a music lesson , followed by a painting or a dancing lesson . |
| 24 | where part of the site ( a substantial area ) could be environmentally improved by coaling or subsequent restoration ; |
| 25 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 26 | The bound virus gave rise to G418 resistant colonies ( Fig. 4 and Table 1 ) , and the binding of the virus could be competively inhibited by soluble NIP.BSA ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 27 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 28 | Well , it could be loosely defined as the cell-wall material of plants but only loosely , because it also consists of substances associated with these cell walls . |
| 29 | The question of ratification of treaties with Western nations opened up a gulf between the Bakufu and an imperial court whose nominal supremacy Tokugawa enemies were beginning to realize could be fruitfully exploited to the regime 's disadvantage . |
| 30 | I myself was grimly unsympathetic , pointing out the years of government and social inaction on cervical cancer , a sexually-related disease from which only women suffer and which could be drastically reduced by simple health education and changes in heterosexual male habits . |