Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] moved " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toward the end of the war , many artillery pieces were of such a size and weight that they could only be moved around on specially strengthened railway freight wagons . |
| 2 | Food , whether as aid or as normal trade , could not be moved from the ports to the people who needed it . |
| 3 | The plight of the injured was an unenviable one ; several of them could not be moved . |
| 4 | All the stores that could not be moved by native porters or the gallant Timor ponies were destroyed on 22 February and the Company moved south into the mountains , from where they were able to watch an area of 300 square miles ( over 770km 2 ) , patrolling for negative reports as often as they made enemy sightings . |
| 5 | It was considered for use as a barricade but could not be moved without detaching the wings and was therefore left intact ( Corrects September FlyPast ) . |
| 6 | However , the sluggish and top-heavy bureaucratic apparatus of the City Council could not be moved to action . |
| 7 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 8 | The rockets had been damaged by allied bombing raids during the Gulf war and could not be moved to the main destruction site at Muthana , where most of the other 45,000 chemical warheads had been transported . |
| 9 | But if Britain could not be moved towards European economic co-operation , Acheson continued to press for increases to the military strength of the West . |
| 10 | one of the things I 'm thinking of in the longer term and I I bounced this of er was that if groups moved to Stansted could not be moved across to groups to sort this problem out because I think she 's getting bored in what she 's doing |
| 11 | A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches . |
| 12 | If anyone out there wants a crane , makes an offer to Bristol Works Department in about three years ' time — they bought it cheap ( £16,000 ) because nobody else wanted a crane that could n't be moved about easily ! |
| 13 | They used to use it like a canal ; anything that could n't be moved easily by land , they 'd stick it on a boat . |
| 14 | To open the lock , the key would be inserted and turned pushing the teeth into the bolt ; the interlocked key and bolt could then be moved sideways . |