Example sentences of "and [pron] could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 2 | It was her age she supposed , and nothing could be done about it . |
| 3 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 4 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 5 | He and his son John protested their innocence to a Parliamentary committee , and nothing could be proved against them . |
| 6 | " Father — is it possible — is it possible that Jennifer and me could be wed before I go with you ? " |
| 7 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 8 | The concept that social intervention could have effects unintended by the practitioners , and which could be revealed only by asking the clients for their subjective impressions , took a long time to achieve currency , and had to do battle with the time-honoured attitude in professional practice that the client could not be expected to know what he , or more usually she , wanted . |
| 9 | There could be and possibly will be a wide range of views as to what features of the medieval world are most deserving of study but again teachers will have to make judgements about which elements are more significant and which could be given a " broad brush " treatment . |
| 10 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 11 | I attach a note which I hope you will find useful and which could be distributed to appropriate members of the Trust . |
| 12 | This clause named countries which the USA thought had restrictive or unfair trade practices and which could be targeted for retaliatory sanctions if negotiations failed to bring about an improvement . |
| 13 | To contract out more functions which do not have to be undertaken by health authority staff and which could be provided more cost effectively by the private sector . |
| 14 | An idea used by both a leading paint manufacturer on the introduction of a new type of paint and a hair product manufacturer on the launch of a new shampoo and which could be adapted to quite a number of other fields was based on the headline " Do n't write about it until you 've tried it . " |
| 15 | One such obsolete mentality was religion , which scientists sponsored by Elena Ceauşescu had exposed as a delusion caused by neurological disorders , and which could be cured by simple surgical interventions into the brains of believers . |
| 16 | Hawkridge starts with survey of new information technology and its jargon aimed at readers new to the field , and which could be skipped by those who know about it . |
| 17 | You 've disobeyed mine and you could be hotted for it . |
| 18 | Wander around the centre , and you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole of Leeds was built in Victorian days . |
| 19 | Ten years later , and you could be forgiven for thinking you 'd stumbled into Liberace 's Grotto . |
| 20 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 21 | If you do n't declare excess goods and you are caught , you 'll have to pay duty and tax on the lot , the goods will probably be confiscated and you could be prosecuted too . |
| 22 | So that 's very , very important because it can be very misleading and you could be fooled into thinking that there 's nothing wrong with the baby , then there 'll also be swelling of the hands , feet and the eyelids might swell up , the medical word for that is oedema which you may well see in books , which means swelling occasionally the overlying skin is |
| 23 | And who could be cast in the inevitable biopic of the greatest living Irishman ? |
| 24 | To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership . |
| 25 | Most of the children who seroconverted and who could be located 13–17 months after vaccination remained seropositive ( table III ) . |
| 26 | Only her friend Antonia knew where she was headed and she could be trusted to keep a secret . |
| 27 | In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it . |
| 28 | None of the figures on any of the regulatory bodies was exactly a spring chicken , and none could be called a radical . |
| 29 | But I am constantly in trouble with the law , because I always kiss my boyfriend in public and we could be prosecuted for that . |
| 30 | But from what is available it looks as though typing Services will be rid of Wang by the end of September and we could be linked by December ( this does seem optimistic ) . |