Example sentences of "[noun] could [be] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clever ones soon discovered that while banknotes could be seized a bank balance could not . |
| 2 | Just think , in a few years from now baffled Frenchmen could be facing a generation of British tourists demanding : ‘ Ee chuck ! |
| 3 | One way of indicating this intention would be to take some action contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty , but such signalling action could be deemed a breach of Article 18 . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly that is a great defect : it is impossible not to wish that , musically speaking , the piece could be played an octave higher . |
| 5 | The college could be improved a lot . |
| 6 | From outside the newspaper 's offices could be heard the murmur of distant artillery as the Israelis and Phalangists fired into the city . |
| 7 | If a swirling spiral of panic could be called a blank . |
| 8 | Dozens of lives could be saved every year if GPs gave penicillin to people with the brain disease meningitis . |
| 9 | The world 's great love of the panda could be causing a lot of the damage . |
| 10 | Ballroom dancing could be making a comeback . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But before these matters could be considered the court had to address an argument for the Crown which , if it had succeeded , would have brought an immediate end to the matter . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor could be facing a showdown with Paul Gascoigne after his ‘ refuelling ’ comments about his star midfielder . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When stoppages were called so that the canal could be repaired the blacksmith would go on site to fit the ironwork he had made . |
| 17 | The global trend toward intensive farming could be taking the world on " an accelerating merry-go round to hell " according to Sir James Goldsmith in a lecture given to the Royal Society . |
| 18 | No , they had no warrant , but they could take him and the boat back to Oban , where a warrant could be obtained No objection ? |
| 19 | Humpage managed to dismiss both Gloucestershire openers , Broad and Stoviold , so the move by skipper Bob Willis could be accounted a success . |
| 20 | A product could be called a part , product or finished product depending on the department . |
| 21 | The suffering and self-conscious first-person singular manifested in Dyer could be considered a creation of the Gothic novel that came after him , and Dyer can also bring to mind the magus of a time before . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ We have outlined the criteria which would need to be achieved before a move could be considered the rest is up to him . ’ |
| 23 | Opinion was divided as to how far the conference could be termed a success . |
| 24 | Opinion was divided as to the extent to which the conference could be termed a success : many environmental campaigners expressed varying degrees of disappointment and anger at what they saw as its failure to set binding targets for resolving environmental problems , and to address adequately the links between third world poverty and environmental degradation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sure enough , in the distance could be heard the sound of the car returning . |
| 27 | In this court could be found the money changers who changed the ‘ unclean ’ currencies such as Roman money into the sacred Temple money for the payment of Temple collections . |
| 28 | Leavis himself was partisan in the extreme when it came to deciding which writers could be awarded the accolade of ‘ moral seriousness ’ . |
| 29 | But before the alliance could be cemented a number of problems had to be resolved , not least of which was residual opposition within the society to its recent shift in direction . |
| 30 | For example : Enigma Variations could be called a character ballet because it describes ‘ the persons empictured within' by Elgar himself . |