Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | To attempt defection would be to sign their death warrants , and no man could be expected to do that . |
| 2 | Few could be expected to assume that eccentricity . |
| 3 | Now it knew what its transmogrified form could do ; knew instinctively how its own powers of absorption and reconstitution could be used to feed that terrible need . |
| 4 | They are therefore nearer to being attempted systematisations of popular ideology than objective scales which could be used to explain that ideology . |
| 5 | all the provinces , bar one have balances which could be used to make that up , so the money is fairly short and we 're bear er , for pains , the |