Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 2 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 3 | The bulk of the textile manufacturers in northern France at the same period were similarly children of what could already be considered the middle strata ; the bulk of the mid-nineteenth-century Nottingham hosiery manufacturers had similar origins , two-thirds of them actually coming from the hosiery trade . |
| 4 | ‘ That could hardly be called a conciliatory speech , ’ said Isambard delicately . |
| 5 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 6 | Diplomacy could still be made an uncomfortable and even dangerous profession by the slowness and physical difficulty of communications and by the inconveniences of life in the smaller and more remote capitals . |
| 7 | Under the brown stains could clearly be seen the white bumps of calluses . |
| 8 | Ford , distrusting such easy agreement , would seek support for his views from the more experienced officers of the battalion , but those officers , such as Peter d'Alembord , doubted whether the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers could truthfully be called a veteran battalion . |
| 9 | In his view , it is the failure to develop the social and political attitudes appropriate to a welfare society , which could also be called a democratic socialist society , that is responsible for the limited success in building a welfare state . |
| 10 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 11 | The memory was still fresh of the time when he was considered a world-beater , and in receipt of so much weight from Arkle he could certainly be given a realistic chance . |
| 12 | It could therefore be called a 1-bit data latch . |