Example sentences of "and [pron] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was her age she supposed , and nothing could be done about it . |
| 2 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 3 | He and his son John protested their innocence to a Parliamentary committee , and nothing could be proved against them . |
| 4 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 5 | This clause named countries which the USA thought had restrictive or unfair trade practices and which could be targeted for retaliatory sanctions if negotiations failed to bring about an improvement . |
| 6 | An idea used by both a leading paint manufacturer on the introduction of a new type of paint and a hair product manufacturer on the launch of a new shampoo and which could be adapted to quite a number of other fields was based on the headline " Do n't write about it until you 've tried it . " |
| 7 | One such obsolete mentality was religion , which scientists sponsored by Elena Ceauşescu had exposed as a delusion caused by neurological disorders , and which could be cured by simple surgical interventions into the brains of believers . |
| 8 | Hawkridge starts with survey of new information technology and its jargon aimed at readers new to the field , and which could be skipped by those who know about it . |
| 9 | You 've disobeyed mine and you could be hotted for it . |
| 10 | Wander around the centre , and you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole of Leeds was built in Victorian days . |
| 11 | Ten years later , and you could be forgiven for thinking you 'd stumbled into Liberace 's Grotto . |
| 12 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 13 | So that 's very , very important because it can be very misleading and you could be fooled into thinking that there 's nothing wrong with the baby , then there 'll also be swelling of the hands , feet and the eyelids might swell up , the medical word for that is oedema which you may well see in books , which means swelling occasionally the overlying skin is |
| 14 | And who could be cast in the inevitable biopic of the greatest living Irishman ? |
| 15 | To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership . |
| 16 | But I am constantly in trouble with the law , because I always kiss my boyfriend in public and we could be prosecuted for that . |
| 17 | But from what is available it looks as though typing Services will be rid of Wang by the end of September and we could be linked by December ( this does seem optimistic ) . |
| 18 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 19 | The cars will be built by a team of 40 , only a few of them Italian , and they could be joined by British engine designer Brian Hart for the Italian job to be done in Surrey . |
| 20 | SDRs could now be used more freely among participating countries : it became possible to use them to settle obligations without changing them first into currencies ; they could be loaned to other countries ; and they could be used as a security for a loan by another central bank or government . |
| 21 | At one time execution might be made against the debtor 's person , and he could be kept in prison indefinitely in default of payment . |
| 22 | The provision should be construed liberally in favour of the rent payer since the deduction was mandatory and he could be assessed on the tax with interest and penalties if the deduction was not made . |
| 23 | In his late teens , there were still signs of puppy fat , and his rounded face sat under an unruly head of hair trimmed to the current style , though not especially trendy , and he could be lost in a crowd as being just another boy on the block ; unassuming and unspecial . |
| 24 | It does not come in an envelope and it could be seen by anyone in the office which may , in itself , help to achieve its purpose . |
| 25 | Organisers are staging another event at Moortown on September 6 and it could be followed by a World Over-80 's tournament . |
| 26 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 27 | Weaken , turn your back for a moment and it could be lost for good . |
| 28 | This seems to be a rather narrow and limiting definition , and it could be refuted by pointing out that both subject knowledge and research methodology could equally well be tested by examination , without going to the additional effort of writing a thesis . |
| 29 | The the concept of the promotion was absolutely brilliant and it could be handled from Europe |
| 30 | job if there 's gon na be an exercise or a they like it to be a real-life practical situation , almost like a simulation of the job rather than something that 's er for example if you were to do a case study , pragmatists would like it be in an insurance-related case study and it could be related to their job very . |