Example sentences of "and [pron] could [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quite frankly , Ken and I could n't be bothered to let our place and give out all those orders . ’ |
| 2 | Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them ! |
| 3 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
| 4 | On the whole individual museums went for drawings that best filled gaps in their collections and which could reasonably be afforded with their limited budgets . |
| 5 | But first there was the other thing , which we seemed to be glossing over and which could n't be glossed over . |
| 6 | The peasantry was constantly eroded by the proletarianisation of those whose holdings were too small to support them , or the emigration of those extra mouths which demographic growth multiplied , and which could not be fed on the family 's land . |
| 7 | Devlin has , however , been defended against such a charge by several commentators , and one of these , Basil Mitchell , argues that it would be fairer to suggest that Devlin 's position is that there are no types of immorality which are not in some way capable of threatening society , and which could therefore be considered to be ‘ outside ’ the scope of the law : |
| 8 | Simply send off your entry form and you could soon be celebrating your success with , naturally , a glass of Champagne ! |
| 9 | ‘ Nazis , ’ she said , once the door was shut and she could n't be overheard . |
| 10 | It would need only fifty feet either way , and she could not be seen . |
| 11 | And we could not be accused of complacency . |
| 12 | Legacies had to be disposed in set words ; trusts on the other hand were entirely free of form , they could be established in any words in any language , and they could even be created by gestures ( nutus ) . |
| 13 | When they arrived at her close he took her inside , along past the stairs to where it was dark and they could n't be seen by the rest of the close . |
| 14 | Indeed , they were both part of the same system , and they could not be separated . |
| 15 | This was because with the older gliders like the T21 or T31 , the wings were very high and they could not be held securely except by keeping one wing low . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Holsteins also tend to have much more white in the coat so that the white areas predominate and they could almost be described as white-and-blacks in contrast to the black-and-white Friesian type . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Okapi '86 word-matching procedures do not require much storage and the look-up is quick and efficient , and they could readily be implemented in commercial library systems . |
| 20 | They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug . |
| 21 | And he could even be challenging for a place in the return leg of Leeds ' European Cup first round tie against Stuttgart at Elland Road at the end of the month . |
| 22 | Churchill relied heavily upon intelligence from Ultra , calling the Bletchley cryptanalysts ‘ the geese who laid the golden eggs but never cackled ’ ; and he could frequently be heard demanding , ‘ Where are my eggs ? ’ |
| 23 | He is suppressing this chagrin , of course — and he could scarcely be suppressing it if he were n't feeling it . |
| 24 | More serious offences such as being drunk and disorderly or damaging property , labelled him as REFRACTORY , and he could then be locked up in a separate room with bread and water for twenty-four hours . |
| 25 | We have seen that , under the ordinary form of a mortgage of freehold land used before the property Acts , the legal estate was conveyed to the mortgagee , so that at law he became the owner of the property ; but that the mortgagor was treated by equity as the owner — he had an equity of redemption , which was an equitable estate in the land ; and he could only be deprived of his equity of redemption in certain defined ways , e.g. by foreclosure or sale . |
| 26 | One would never know ; and meantime the devil was in him , Paul Arkwright , in his blood , for life , and he could never be rid of it ; yet he must live , and work , and write , and surely marry . |
| 27 | Sit behind the wheel of the Calibra and it could easily be mistaken for a Cavalier GSi . |
| 28 | Someone had mentioned that the ski-jump was off to the right , but visibility was only 50 yards and it could not be seen . |
| 29 | Alain had awakened something too and it could not be dismissed . |
| 30 | As the Court of Appeal put it : ‘ Somebody was not telling the truth and it could not be said that it was not a relevant matter for the jury to be told that one man had been dishonest in the past . ’ |