Example sentences of "could well [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The galleries of Cumbria , so frequently referred to as ‘ Spinning Galleries ’ , could better be called ‘ Wool Galleries ’ , for they were mainly used for fleece , wool , yarn and cloth in many stages of storing , preparation and drying . |
| 2 | During the 1970s , some political observers , recognising the unequal participation and influence of certain interests in public policy making , began to argue that British politics could better be described as " corporatist " rather than pluralist . |
| 3 | With the advent of information theory ( Attneave , 1959 ; Edwards , 1964 ) other interesting issues arose such as whether the performance of the store could better be measured in terms of bits of information or chunks of material ( the bits-versus-chunks controversy ( Miller , 1956 ) ) and the possibility that memory processes might distinguish between content and order . |
| 4 | Jeremias has shown in The Central Message of the New Testament that nowhere in pre-Christian literature does anyone dare to call God by this intimate , family word which could better be translated as ‘ Daddy ’ or ‘ Dear Father ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , when Bernard Bergonzi complains of the uniformity of the novels he is obliged as a reviewer to read , he gives as a sample situation a scenario that could well be based on The Languages of Love : ‘ a very sensitive , rather neurotic girl , living in an Earls Court bedsitter and having sexual difficulties ’ ( 1979:24 ) . |
| 6 | From this it could well be said that life motivation stems from the perpetual satisfaction of recurring desire . |
| 7 | It could well be said that once the ‘ feel ’ of control is acquired then all you need is practice , and just like riding the bicycle , all the arm movements become a spontaneous impulse.But life is n't that easy , and in our experience , the ‘ prangs ’ have to be suffered before the ‘ knack ’ of dexterous control is accomplished . |
| 8 | Indeed , kinship could well be said to involve greater obligations to the old than it once did , because survivors now live longer and have fewer descendants who can share their care . |
| 9 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 10 | To that extent it could well be said , and indeed I do find and hold , that the effectiveness of the first part of the order takes away the substance , as it were , of the whole order . |
| 11 | Corrie Van Zyl , who bats at No 5 for Orange Free State , will take over the all-rounder 's spot from Brian McMillan , whose absence through injury after a good World Cup could well be felt . |
| 12 | In years to come the commercialisation of BR via sectorisation could well be seen by historians as important as grouping and nationalisation . |
| 13 | All this , of course , could well be seen as an excessively constraining interpretation , smacking of a kind of behaviourist structure analysis common to well-developed traditions of curriculum development in the USA . |
| 14 | Our revival of it could well be seen as defiant ; that 's why we have already commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Aby Warburg 's death . |
| 15 | And if Mrs Simmons was registered with him she could well be seen much sooner . |
| 16 | But some argued that a new and more resounding voice to address Edward would be more effective ; also , sadly , that Seton 's will to resist could well be weakened by having his son the hostage . |
| 17 | If Gen Noriega goes to trial , it could well be dubbed ‘ trial of the century ’ . |
| 18 | Video hire stores say if the movie is a money spinner in the cinema the general video release could well be delayed making the sale of pirate tapes particularly lucrative . |
| 19 | You might feel below par , that ‘ washed-out ’ feeling ; your resistance to infection could well be affected ; you will not have the zest for life that you should have . |
| 20 | Now that trait could well be favoured by species selection , because what is it that evolves — individuals do not evolve — we are born and we die , but we do n't evolve . |
| 21 | ‘ History could well be made under this roof , ’ I told them . |
| 22 | WHOLESALE changes could well be made for this Saturday 's Gold Cup game following Glentoran 's latest disappointing defeat against Portadown . |
| 23 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 24 | Could well be negated because all we 're saying is that the counter argument to it is we 're simply conforming with the structure plan . |
| 25 | In a computerised system , however , each document could well be stored at the same level across an entire institution , with access via key word searching on various fields , or full text retrieval . |
| 26 | Trible 's work could well be criticized in its own terms . |
| 27 | If he drove on regardless of the conditions he could well be convicted . |
| 28 | In its art-world application it goes like this : women artists ( like men ) are sustained by the romantic fallacy — positively Pharaonic in its vision of the after-life — that present neglect could well be followed by posthumous frame . |
| 29 | There are still seven rounds to go , and the championship could well be decided back here at Prescott in September in the last meeting of the season . |
| 30 | If any hostile power monitored that transmission , it could well be regarded as a major breach of national security . |