Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clever idea , but there is a feeling that this could be broken if not treated with care . |
| 2 | The end of British Imperialism could be traced as having occurred with the Suez Canal affair which led to the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister . |
| 3 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |
| 4 | It remained to be seen whether these four armies could be united before Negus Mikael could blockade Ras Lul Seged and Fitaurari Gelli in Ankober and advance into the plain of Debra Berhan where the first battle was expected to take place . |
| 5 | Such sites can be useful , however , as a collection of pottery may indicate earlier occupation on a site than could be discerned when it was pasture or a field of unploughed earthworks . |
| 6 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 7 | Bronze , an alloy of mainly copper and tin , could be polished until it looked almost like gold , and the technique of making it had been known in Britain for centuries . |
| 8 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 9 | TAP water for hundreds of thousands of people could be polluted if pit closures go ahead , an environmental group claimed yesterday . |
| 10 | Over the course of the year prior to the interviews only 8% of island women could be categorised as being depressed in a psychiatric sense as compared with 15% of Camberwell women ’ . |
| 11 | Whether the security could be upheld if the only ground for impeaching it was that Mrs. Duval had no independent advice has not really to be determined . |
| 12 | Working so positively and with such support with different people confirmed my belief that oppressions should n't be ranked against each other ; and that an EOP debate could act as a central focus around which a unity between different oppressions could be achieved while recognizing and accepting our differences . |
| 13 | Significantly , the use of interviews and questionnaires in mass surveys depended upon the notion that the responses offered by respondents about their conditions and experiences were almost as good as the direct observation of the respondents and their lives ; a far greater coverage of the population could be achieved than by using observational methods . |
| 14 | This made feasible an open door policy in the hospitals , in the sense both that patients were out quickly and that within the hospital a more relaxed atmosphere could be achieved as drugs controlled the excessive behaviour of severely disturbed patients . |
| 15 | It showed what could be achieved when the Treasury and the DHSS worked together . |
| 16 | Commenting on the changes , a BR spokeswoman said : ‘ Darlington was a forerunner of similar schemes throughout the country and showed what could be achieved when local authorities got together with British Rail . ’ |
| 17 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 18 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
| 19 | Even this product of genius was flawed as it trailed away into melodrama but for a fleeting moment Hollywood was shown what could be achieved if its resources were used as the basis for a director 's cinema . |
| 20 | Greater accountability could be achieved if the Government accepted Labour 's proposal to return control of the business rate to local authorities . |
| 21 | This could be achieved if solicitors were prepared to take young people into their offices on a temporary basis . |
| 22 | It could be asked if Mary Leapor , Henry Jones , James Eyre Weeks , Joseph Lewis , and George Smith Green do not constitute a third wave since their first works appeared around 1750 . |
| 23 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 24 | We might say : no checkerboard statute could be enacted unless a majority of the legislators voted for provisions they thought unjust . |
| 25 | On Aug. 21 the WEU meeting in Paris was informed that the West German coalition government was to begin talks with the opposition parties on a possible amendment to the constitution to remove this barrier , but it was thought unlikely that any such measure could be enacted before German unification had been completed . |
| 26 | This pattern could be represented as in Figure 2.2 . |
| 27 | I hope the discussion has this value : it addresses the question of intervention to further social objectives within the system of commodity-producing enterprises and , rather than positing nationalisation as panacea ( a theme with a pronounced minority appeal ) , it identifies certain cases in which nationalisation could be argued as necessary to further social objectives as well as cases in which nationalisation might be of no obvious advantage . |
| 28 | This could be argued as promoting the crossing between different parent trees in successive seasons . |
| 29 | The fine lines of Cley 's face could be studied as he gazed towards the ceiling before speaking again . |
| 30 | In late March 1990 McKenna proposed such a compromise but the response of the Quebec legislature was to pass a resolution stating that no discussion of McKenna 's companion document could be undertaken until Meech Lake had been ratified in its original form . |