Example sentences of "they could [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 2 | Whether skilled or unskilled , the vast majority of fathers of brides in the sample were engaged in manual trades ( 110 of the 161 ) , and most of them could safely be assumed to be skilled workers . |
| 3 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 4 | They could not be expected to be automatically loyal . |
| 5 | The problem , Richie explained , was that John and Angela had arrived at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Vienna , but as they had no passports they could not be admitted to the country . |
| 6 | They could well be given to an officer 's deputy or underling , assuring him of promotion when the time came . |
| 7 | Some of these clients can misread political realities , others may perceive that they are ‘ involving clinicians ’ in management whereas they could also be seen to be merely ‘ indoctrinating ’ . |
| 8 | The modules could form part of the bare-bones station or the truncated Freedom ( though they might not get up there early on ) ; they could also be mated to the single-launch skylab . |
| 9 | This was a tolerably painless process since they could generally be provided to a clerical living in their retirement . |
| 10 | The contests , however , were almost impossible to avoid , and they could occasionally be pushed to the extremity of a prolonged election , likely to embitter all concerned in the losing cause . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of the radioactive nuclides would have decayed to stable atoms before they could possibly be released to the environment by the slow corrosion process . ’ |
| 12 | But while it proposed interim restrictions on the consumption of HCFCs — used for making foam insulation — it stepped back from proposing to outlaw their production in the EC , from where they could still be exported to developing countries as a substitute to the much more harmful CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) in refrigerators and air conditioners . |
| 13 | Some of Freud 's patients became more rational in their understanding of their problems , and they could therefore be said to be nearer than non-patients to the standard Freud held up as worthy of human beings . |
| 14 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |