Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enoch Powell , who needed nobody to tell him that he could n't win ( he knew that perfectly well ) , was not the object of anything that could properly be called a campaign : he was a loner with just a few devoted friends behind him . |
| 2 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 3 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 4 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 5 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 6 | This is a choice ( whether conscious or unconscious is a different matter ) , but could scarcely be called a style . |
| 7 | UP and coming Farnham band Feel could soon be spearheading a wave of fresh talent intent on reviving a staid top forty . |
| 8 | Football , and speculation is mounting that Oxford United 's new manager could soon be leaving the club just six weeks after he was appointed . |
| 9 | YOUNGSTERS with severe learning difficulties could soon be enjoying a holiday . |
| 10 | The skull of a Celtic princess which was dug up more than a hundred years ago could soon be given a face . |
| 11 | BRITAIN 'S first legal red light district could soon be given the go-ahead . |
| 12 | Otters could soon be making a comeback along the banks of our rivers , if a new project launched by a wildlife trust is successful . |
| 13 | The firm which carried out the survey says all Gloucestershire motorists could soon be paying the price for crime in higher insurance premiums |
| 14 | In 1922 the capital of the guberniia could hardly be called a bastion of the proletariat . |
| 15 | LADY in black Jackie Miller could hardly be called a mo-pedestrian either . |
| 16 | Now to an event that could hardly be called a sport , even though it did produce a new British champion . |
| 17 | The elongated , slightly oval hummock could hardly be called a grave , more a burial mound . |
| 18 | The integration of its railway system — it could hardly be called a network — was a major problem . |
| 19 | The garden could hardly be called a garden ; it was large , wild and not too well kept . |
| 20 | There was bougainvillaea in flower , clambering up the stone walls , small white roses on thin stalks among the weeds , and wild flowers in what could hardly be called a garden . |
| 21 | That the evening could still be counted a success was partly down to the attack and verve of the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir . |
| 22 | She had once shown me , at some distance from the train in which we were travelling , a high brick wall enclosing the park of a great house : in this wall could clearly be seen a door , and through that door , Grandma told me , she had always passed when going off duty . |
| 23 | There is nothing that could reasonably be called a head ; merely a small light-sensitive spot ; no heart , only a number of pulsating arteries ; no fins or limbs , only a slight dilation at the hind end like the flight feathers of an arrow . |
| 24 | What Freud called the wishful purpose could also be called the structuring principle . |
| 25 | Over and above setting a brief for the risk management team to identify , analyse and evaluate all risks that could impact on the balance sheet to a greater extent than , say , five per cent of gross profit , Ure recommends it could also be given the task of tackling risk areas where the organisation suffers continual losses . |
| 26 | At Wolverhampton , the bookmakers could also be dealt a blow by Shillelagh ( next best 4.45 ) . |
| 27 | This could now be having an effect on the numbers of immature fish inshore . |
| 28 | And that could fairly be called an act of express consent . |
| 29 | A fund was set up for its restoration , but before the work could even be started the campanile collapsed . |
| 30 | In twenty years time this field full of weeds could well be supporting a wealth of wildflowers . |