Example sentences of "but [pron] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Interim Committee reached the decision on 26 February 1948 that UNTCOK should adhere to the original intention in so far as this could be accomplished ; elections would be supervised in the south but nothing could be done about the north . |
| 2 | It widened but nothing could be seen in the gap , save for the path ahead , winding on down to the valley . |
| 3 | ‘ But I could be accused of negligence ! |
| 4 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 5 | This is a rich , satisfying casserole with more than a taste of the exotic , but which could be included in nearly any dinner party menu . |
| 6 | After tedious checks a clutch of people who had been seen on Hampstead Heath around the time of the death had been traced but none could be linked to the murder . |
| 7 | The Grade V test was , therefore , taken by a number of students who had no particular interest in the theory of music , but who could be pushed through the test provided that they could learn the requirements and carry them out without too much in the way of understanding . |
| 8 | But they could be seen to be so " from below " as well as " from above " . |
| 9 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 10 | These dogs look happy enough , but they could be riddled with canine complexes . |
| 11 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
| 12 | Now , many of the other items are also sound and have a part to play but they could be improved upon . |
| 13 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
| 14 | Speadsheets have not so far figured largely as a resource for history , but they could be used with certain types of documentary sources . |
| 15 | But he could be pricked like a balloon . ’ |
| 16 | Browne has maintained his innocence all along , but he could be banned from all Britain 's racetracks and a friend said : ‘ They are just out to get him . ’ |
| 17 | The procedure was necessarily long-winded but it could be completed by the end of term . |
| 18 | The counter is more likely than not to be manufactured by an enemy country , but it could be manufactured by the same country , even by the same company ! |
| 19 | This version of a marketable discharge licence process employs a national airshed , but it could be applied at a state or local level and for other pollutants in the future . |
| 20 | The reason for this is not clear but it could be explained by the finding of a lower prevalence of H pylori in NSAID patients , and by the tendency of NSAID related damage to be maximal in the gastric antrum . |
| 21 | Naturally , with the increasing prosperity of Scotland in the course of the eighteenth century , the value of minor private patronage diminished , but it could be replaced on occasion by alternatives , and at no time did the agents of administration control all available employment . |
| 22 | But it could be made into a poster . |
| 23 | A proposal to hold such referendum could be submitted by either the Czech or the Slovak parliament , or by the Federal Assembly , but it could be vetoed by the federal President , Vaclav Havel . |
| 24 | The motto refers to a dynastic permanence ; but it could be stolen for this novel , where a ‘ now and always ’ is on show . |
| 25 | That is bad , but it could be dealt with . |
| 26 | ( As drawn , the peak is interior to the interval [ O , PY i ] , but it could be located at the endpoint . ) |
| 27 | The style of the poem is in many ways seventeenth-century , though there are plenty of resemblances to later hymns ; but it could be described as an emblem-poem in the seventeenth-century tradition . |
| 28 | In terms of the land which is lost and will it be counted , er I would agree with David Allenby , in so in so far as where small sites are lost , they are in fact largely taken up in past land-take trends , but when a major site is lost , that at the moment forms part of the ninety one base of employment , and it it is something that we would n't have anticipated , therefore I think in terms of when we look at land availability figures and availability of supply erm we would have to look very carefully at land which is lost or significant land which is lost , or a significant number of jobs , it would n't necessary be added onto the structure plan requirement , but it could be deducted from the land availa land availability figures as land lost . |
| 29 | But it could be used as an instrument to achieve greater equality in the distribution of the nation 's resources . |
| 30 | Watching Richard Arthurs was a lesson to us all , but what could be said about Ian Harrison ? ! |