Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] could [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these categories the authors designated 42 as acts of communication by the mother and 32 that could be interpreted as communication by the infant ( burps and smiles for example ) . |
| 2 | When the intimidation became unbearable , as at Bentheim on the German-Dutch border , the route was abandoned in favour of a Belgian crossing at Herbesthal , but usually there was little that could be done except to comfort the children and to urge calm . |
| 3 | Furthermore , in whole body calorimetry studies when total H 2 and CH 4 excretion were measured in healthy subjects eating test meals of various fermentable carbohydrates , the amount of excreted H 2 that could be accounted for was much less in non-methanogenic subjects . |
| 4 | Let us suppose also that a price of 37s. would tempt buyers for only 600 quarters ; while another hundred could be sold at 36s. , and yet another two hundred at 35s . |
| 5 | A second antecedent could be found in work by engineers , and R.A. Bagnold published his monumental Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes in 1941 , in which he stipulated the bases for the underlying processes in desert areas . |
| 6 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 7 | Much more could be said of the implications of a natural-narrative analysis here . |
| 8 | Much more could be said about assimilation , but from the point of view of learning or teaching English pronunciation , to do so would not be very useful . |
| 9 | Much more could be made of Wittgenstein 's contribution here . |
| 10 | But the overall expenditure total for next year has already been agreed and it 's unlikely that much more could be pared from it . |
| 11 | There is legitimate concern that the meeting decided that little could be done at this time we might be able to contribute to the campaign at a later stage . |
| 12 | A list worth ( in theory ) fifty thousand could be bought for five hundred . |
| 13 | Law had indeed brought Asquith to the point of conceding all that could be hoped for from Ulster 's resistance , but he was unable to seize the fruits . |
| 14 | Grace had already taken in all that could be salvaged of Willis 's clothing , for drying and mending . |
| 15 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 16 | Three screens showed views of the slim man 's shelter of rocks , but all that could be seen of the target were the streams of laser fire that issued from his blaster . |
| 17 | All that could be seen of Daak was his chainsword , silent now and held aloft as Daak disappeared through the hole he had cut in the floor . |
| 18 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 19 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 20 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 21 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 22 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 23 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 24 | ‘ You did all that could be expected of any man , ’ said the abbot firmly . |
| 25 | But all this could be turned to good account . |
| 26 | All this could be done by giving a life estate to the head of the family ; with the remainder to his sons successively in tail-male , with remainder to the daughters in tail , subject to a rentcharge in favour of the life tenant 's widow upon his death , and in favour of any other persons desired to be benefited ; and with power to the trustees to create long leases in the property for the purpose of charging the lease in order to provide portions for younger sons and daughters who did not inherit the land . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ All this could be solved by the captains . |
| 28 | All this could be accounted for by the fact that Picasso was working on a very large scale and found it necessary to simplify his technique and adopt a bolder approach . |
| 29 | G. Lightheart will discuss with R. Amos how the sum of £300 which is a present available could be spent in the acquisition of new equipment . |
| 30 | In a paper given at the Hydrocarbons 1983 conference in March 1983 , BP propounded the view that the supply shortfall towards the late 1980s could be met by the development of UK reserves , and identified 50,000 billion cubic feet of recoverable new gas — two-thirds in discoveries and one-third in undrilled geological prospects . |