Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little improvement in the diaphragm 's sensitivity after about 1906 , but better manufacturing techniques ( resulting in less surface noise ) and better gramophones ( with greater efficiency ) meant that by 1920 classical pianists could be recorded playing relatively unmodified grand pianos . |
| 2 | Also , a scheme could be developed using the Analytical Chemistry by Open Learning ( ACOL ) course . |
| 3 | Sometimes he could be observed wearing some garment inside out . |
| 4 | The boy often went to stay at Ely and at the age of 8 could be observed giving strangers a guided tour . |
| 5 | In rural areas of America , the young men learned that after a religious revival meeting , the young women attending could be led unprotesting into the fields and bushes behind the evangelical tent . |
| 6 | If extra figures are needed , they could be placed sitting on the grass or even on the bus roof . |
| 7 | If Ratty from ‘ Wind in the Willows ’ could be imagined living in a town , then Boppard is where we think he 'd choose . |
| 8 | In defence , Cimino argued that anything that could be imagined happening in Vietnam , probably did happen . |
| 9 | Richard Taruskin has suggested that some initial American resistance to the a cappella theory of chanson performance in the Middle Ages was inevitable because American ensembles of the 1970s possessed very few singers who could be imagined giving a satisfactory demonstration of such a performing technique . |
| 10 | In May Aboriginal campaigners persuaded Edinburgh University , in Scotland , to return the remains of more than 300 Aborigines from its anthropological collection in order that they could be reburied according to Aboriginal traditions . |
| 11 | Bill Toone , the project leader , spent countless hours in the wild , watching how the birds behave , so that the mannerisms could be duplicated using the puppets . |
| 12 | From Scardroy , where the public motor road ends , there is another old drovers ' route through to Loch Gowan and Achnasheen , so even without a car some interesting trips could be made taking in the Conon Corbetts by using post bus and train services . |
| 13 | Fujitsu recently showed that 64-megabit DRAMs could be made using fairly conventional lithographic equipment , based on ultra-violet light rather than exotic lasers or X-rays . |
| 14 | One bistable is needed for each bit — thus , a 4-bit counter ( able to count up to 1111 or 15 in decimal ) could be made using 4 flip-flops ( or 2 off 4013 's ) . |
| 15 | 9 Find the area of the largest square that could be made using 64 metres of fencing . |
| 16 | So far discussion has been limited to discussing the beneficiary 's ability to recover the trust property where it had passed into the hands of a third party : in principle the beneficiary was able to follow it , but his claim could be barred depending on the nature of the acquisition by the third party . |
| 17 | Questions related to more social issues , income tax , social security etcetera , could be answered using this system . |
| 18 | Thus Walters 's analysis of government data for 1949 and 1951 concluded that different conclusions could be reached depending on the measure of morbidity adopted . |
| 19 | And then the measurement of currents , electrical currents flowing across the membrane , could be analyzed using voltage clamp techniques . |
| 20 | Behind some of the panes pale blurs of faces could be seen watching — womenfolk and servants . |
| 21 | Everywhere women could be seen seeking eatable weeds among the grass along the roads … |
| 22 | ‘ On that bloody Russian rust bucket over there , ’ He waved his hand towards the ship 's superstructure which could be seen towering over the dock offices . |
| 23 | Throughout North America , farmers ' wives in country districts could be seen boarding local trains , often known as ‘ butter and egg specials ’ , bearing a basket of eggs and some home-churned butter for the market at the local town . |
| 24 | In the summer of 1987 a curious figure could be seen roaming the upper reaches of Baldersdale , dressed in wet-weather gear , festooned with notebooks , large-scale maps and a magnifying glass , and peering intensely over the dry-stone walls . |
| 25 | From the early hours of the morning the unfortunate mali could be seen labouring away , pouring with sweat — despite the heat he still insisted in wearing his thick serge uniform — as he constructed a sort of miniature Mount Fuji in the corner of the front lawn . |
| 26 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 27 | In February 1988 , the Church of the Stork 's Nest , on the corner of Stirbei Voda and Strada Berzei , not far from the shell of the new National History Museum , could be seen moving to a new resting place in order to improve the angle of the street . |
| 28 | Then people could be seen moving forward in Fahan Street , their hands above their heads . |
| 29 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 30 | As he grew older , however , he gave up walking and seldom stirred from his club in St James ; there he could be seen reading newspapers , endlessly , indiscriminately , about great events and small in the order they appeared on the page . |