Example sentences of "[adj] could [adv] be [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could then be used to provide evidence towards the French language modules . |
| 2 | For Sartre 's singular universal could never be expected to solve the formal theoretical problem of how individual existential existence can be related to History insofar as it simply renames , in one oxymoronic category , the original antithetical terms . |
| 3 | A statutory demand under s 268 , Insolvency Act 1986 could not be made to recover tax payable as determined by the General Commissioner when the notice of that amount had not been served on the taxpayer at his usual or last known place of residence under s 115 , TMA 1970 , according to Chancery Division in Re a Debtor ( No 124/50/91 ) , Ex Parte the Debtor v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 888 . |
| 4 | He had bare parity of strength with the Austrians — 38 divisions to 37 — a wholly inadequate number with which to mount an attack , since all evidence had shown that a ratio of 3:1 was the least that could reasonably be expected to ensure success . |
| 5 | That could hardly be called sampling the capital 's restaurants ! |
| 6 | The morning engagements Thrush Green could readily understand , for a man living alone could not be expected to polish and clean , to cook and scrub , and to wash and iron for himself ; though , as Ella pointed out , plenty of women lived alone and did all that with one hand tied behind them , and often went out to work as well into the bargain , and no one considered it remarkable . |
| 7 | Germany was not bound by an agreement between the Netherlands and Denmark , and Article 6 could not be used to achieve indirectly what had not been done directly . |
| 8 | A careful distillation of the principles of public service broadcasting submitted by the Broadcasting Research Unit to the Peacock Committee in 1985 showed that the old values that were in place in 1945 could still be made to fit the diverse and vastly changed system forty years on . |