Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all on runners and could be manoeuvred the length of the room . |
| 2 | Most of these poets whose labour was fairly specialized were conscious of an occupational identity which could be made the subject of verse . |
| 3 | In the latter case , they could be made the subject of a Mental Health Order , but there is little precedent for so doing . |
| 4 | ‘ But before the payment could be made the owner of The Mail on Sunday , Lord Rothermere , issued a directive that no money should be paid to criminals or their families . |
| 5 | This contained a variety of animals — fowl and sixty-three unspecified small birds — but before it could be served the platform supporting it gave way and the pie slipped to the ground . |
| 6 | These observations on human language learning , coupled with evolutionary speculations make one realise just what a formidable accomplishment it would be if apes could be taught the use of a communication system remotely approximating a natural language in creativity , recursiveness , and the extreme conventionality revealed in such matters as reference to spatio-temporally remote items or counterfactual conditionalising or universal generalisation about an unsurveyed domain . |
| 7 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
| 8 | Sure enough , in the distance could be heard the sound of the car returning . |
| 9 | From outside the newspaper 's offices could be heard the murmur of distant artillery as the Israelis and Phalangists fired into the city . |
| 10 | It could be said the key to his personality and the contribution which he has made to the diocese of Middlesbrough as Bishop is unfolded in an eloquent way by the new Cathedral which he caused to be built . |
| 11 | If , then , this column is going to be devoted to what could be called the ecology ( or Eco-logy ) of popular culture , it 's obliged to recognize that none of the emblematic artifices and artefacts of that culture , be they movies , commercials , headlines , photographs , typefaces , fashions or fads , can any longer be trusted to be ‘ innocent ’ ; that even if the crisp elegance of the typeface in which this article is embedded emits a ‘ meaning ’ as much as does the text itself , that meaning is also just as conscious and deliberate . |
| 12 | This kind of activity could be called the micro-politics of race , though in practice , as where we align ourselves with the struggles of our brothers and sisters in South Africa , it is more likely to prove the micro-politics of race 's overcoming . |
| 13 | Over half the answers to the ‘ best ’ aspects question refer to what could be called the work dimension of the role , as do almost all the answers to the ‘ worst ’ aspects question — even though these questions do not specify housework , but permit answers relating to marriage , motherhood and home life generally . |
| 14 | It could be called the efficiency function of the new system . |
| 15 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 16 | The motivation for our search was to see how signs might support the spoken message in schools , how deaf children could be given the benefit of the happy accident which allowed two modalities to be used simultaneously to present two languages . |
| 17 | The justices ' reason for making the secure accommodation order was that in view of the facts found an order was required in order that the child could be given the help and guidance to meet his special needs . |
| 18 | But Black , who will not be running any 400 metres races before the team is chosen at the weekend , could be given the nod to defend the European Cup title he won in Frankfurt two years ago if the 20 year-old runs poorly . |
| 19 | Students could be given the opportunity of actively searching for information about some topic in which they are interested . |
| 20 | The first phase could be given the go-ahead in March , and a second phase might extend the supply into the New Town area . |
| 21 | Humans could be given the complex in this way . ’ |
| 22 | Furthermore , Sica believed that the direction of organized crime was in the hands of no more than 17 men whose names were known to the authorities , and that if those individuals could be convicted the Mafia would collapse . |
| 23 | The only other way Clinton could be denied the nomination is if yet another scandal breaks out — perhaps proof positive of his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers — and he voluntarily withdraws . |
| 24 | There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll . |
| 25 | At present the thrifty working man could be refused the benefit of the OAP Act , while the thriftless could receive it … |
| 26 | The influential soft-left pressure group , the Labour Co-ordinating Committee , yesterday issued a statement saying that unless impropriety could be proved the result in Birkenhead should stand . |
| 27 | If I can find out who is Stavanger 's dentist , perhaps he could be shown the cast . " |
| 28 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 29 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 30 | To reflect this , the Consultative Paper proposed that such centres could be offered the opportunity to accept devolved responsibility for quality elements normally administered by SCOTVEC , provided that the internal quality systems in place were appropriate to each element for which devolved responsibility was being sought . |