Example sentences of "[noun sg] could be [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the Hassan family , carpet manufacturing could be said to be a team effort where one loads , another weaves and another would then inspect . |
| 32 | The decentring of the author as the source and guarantee of his/her discourse , and the increasing preoccupation with the operation of intertextuality in the novel could be demonstrated to be reflected in the work of the nouveaux romanciers . |
| 33 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 34 | On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates . |
| 35 | This analysis could be said to be self-serving , yet it is not without justification ; the president was never as powerful as the critics suggested . |
| 36 | The existence of the provision showed that in certain restricted cases income arising to such an underlying company could be deemed to be income arising under the settlement . |
| 37 | One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail . |
| 38 | Thus , for a short interlude , the religion of the monarch could be said to be neither papist nor Protestant ; and while it was safe to admit to either persuasion , it was wise to support neither too vigorously . |
| 39 | He therefore sought to prove both that the structures of history were necessarily dialectical and that the course of actual history could be shown to be so . |
| 40 | As state pension age is different for men and women , the Rules of the Scheme could be seen to be discriminatory . |
| 41 | Professor Glennerster says that his research shows that none of the alleged scares about the scheme could be found to be true . |
| 42 | Here , one might think , was an occasion when the symbol of national unity would be at its most needed , as citizens prepare to sacrifice their lives for King and Country : under conditions of national threat , the psychological strength of the symbol could be expected to be intensified ( Edelman , 1964 ; Sherif , 1966 ) . |
| 43 | It is difficult to see how conduct could be said to be ‘ used towards ’ another person of whose existence one was oblivious . |
| 44 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 45 | At any particular moment the books might not appear to balance ( for example electrical energy input could be stored to be released as heat later , or energy taken up while forcing the deuterium into the palladium may be returned later U the deuterium leaks out and recombines in the atmosphere ) , so the relevant question was whether there was a net excess output of energy over a long period of time . |
| 46 | In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down ! |
| 47 | If crime and deviance could be shown to be vitally necessary then this would be a serious blow indeed to the correctionalist stance — of both positivists and classicists . |
| 48 | In at least one case , Afghanistan , the regime could be said to be fully subordinate to Moscow . |
| 49 | But particularly in a public sector context , where appeals to the public interest could be assumed to be more common , profound questions remain which can not be resolved by terse definitions . |
| 50 | The hypothesis that states pursue their national interest could be shown to be empirically superior to its rivals , thus grounding a Positive science of international relations . |
| 51 | All in all , the technology could be said to be qualitatively transforming the threat to privacy which information systems , even manually sorted card indexes , have always posed . |
| 52 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 53 | The credit for the laughter at the dinner table could be said to be shared between Henry and Frank Conway . |
| 54 | Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise . |
| 55 | Within the limits of the one party dictatorship prevailing in the Soviet Union Bukharin could be considered to be a consensus politician , seeking growth through co-operation not conflict . |
| 56 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |