Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that could be put right , now , with the traditional builders sand . |
| 2 | I am reasonably good with my hands and with your guidance I 'm sure my lovely old guitar could be put right . |
| 3 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 4 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 5 | The last point could be put right , wasting more space , by adding a potential link field to every record . |
| 6 | However , if the breach concerned some trifling defect , perhaps a mere technicality , which could be put right very quickly and easily , the term would be classed as a warranty . |