Example sentences of "[det] [prep] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If something drastic were not done , then British politics would drift into class antagonism such as could be observed in France . |
| 2 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 3 | This does not mean that it is the product of labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narration and the mastery of style ) but the very theatre of a production where the producer and reader of the text meet : the text ‘ works ’ , at each moment and from whatever side one takes it . |
| 4 | Barthes says the text is not ‘ the product of a labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narrative or a mastery of style ) ’ . |
| 5 | Second , gravitational data show that the maria are sites of excess mass called mascons such as could be produced by infill of an impact basin as follows . |
| 6 | Not all of could be sampled by the questionnaire but comparison with the 1991 census figures suggests that the number of children in the catchment area could be over three hundred . |