Example sentences of "could [adv] be [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could not be adjusted was Mr Ueberroth 's entrepreneurial vision . |
| 2 | As John Fletcher points out in his introduction , the element of the conference that could not be documented is the presence of Kristeva herself , her generous responses to papers , the dialogues which she sustained throughout . |
| 3 | What could not be allowed was the suggestion that major characters were using language to deceive and self-present in expedient ways which suited political needs rather than the way they ‘ really were ’ . |
| 4 | Among those who could not be trusted were colleagues even closer to home , right inside the NSC , who believed in presenting the President with ‘ ranges of options ’ for his policies in Iran or Central America . |
| 5 | Garland ( 1985a ) notes three themes in their programme : reform , prevention — and extinction ; those who could not be reformed were to be eliminated . |
| 6 | These objectives could not be attained were the court 's powers to be strictly limited to its territorial jurisdiction . |
| 7 | There was not , however , much discussion on the overall needs of the disabled , and research into how the needs could best be met was minimal . |
| 8 | A second way in which Lakatos 's methodology could conceivably be supported is as follows : The methodology might serve to identify a programme that received strong support from the scientific community but which does not conform to the methodology of research programmes , and this identification might subsequently lead to the novel discovery of some external cause , such as the intervention of some government or industrial monopoly . |
| 9 | Back then , those things which could n't be said were hinted at in the grain of those luscious voices . |
| 10 | The most that could yet be achieved was independence from rich outsiders ; independence from rich local men was as far away as ever , even in Liverpool . |