Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adding new levies to fuel and power bills could be justified as environmentally friendly following the trend set in the US by President Clinton , and European Community plans to tax consumption that contributes towards global warming . |
| 2 | To a historian of the health services this decision to rationalize the two hospitals on to one site could be seen as rather disappointing . |
| 3 | Such classes appear to have formed the bulk of the programme and little was offered which could be seen as particularly relevant to community action or the problems of social change . |
| 4 | A ‘ very high proportion ’ even of the detailed wording of this 1937 text remains in the published version.i Much of The Silmarillion , then , could be seen as chronologically pre- Hobbit , while the Unfinished Tales ( though much more varied in date and nature ) at least contain a good deal of material whose composition preceded the appearance of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 5 | Whatever the truth is of the ‘ Christmas clashes ’ , the situation in China could be seen as highly volatile . |
| 6 | ‘ I was very torn about whether to use that picture , 'cause it could be seen as too sensitive , but then , why does every photo of me have to be spread legs , arms crossed , strong woman ? |
| 7 | Doctors and Ambulancemen fear lives could be lost if seriously ill patients have to be ferried twenty-five miles for treatment . |
| 8 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 9 | Something which she failed to translate , but which could be recognised as distinctly unflattering . |
| 10 | Even if this number could be regarded as reasonably constant throughout the year , it is clear that the group of individuals exposed to the risk of dying is constantly changing . |
| 11 | By contrast , only about one-third of those recently buying on credit gave reasons which could be regarded as positively favourable . |
| 12 | But if objects to do with God could be regarded as so dangerous , how much more God himself ! |
| 13 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 14 | Mosimann suggests that some of these problems could be overcome if particularly sensitive areas are avoided , especially those above 2000 m above sea-level , and if the topsoil is restored after levelling , etc . |
| 15 | Isolated , they could be treated as virtually impotent , and therefore tolerated . |
| 16 | This pattern of behaviour could be described as generally good with occasional bouts of attention seeking . |
| 17 | In eighteenth-century England there was , in comparison with other countries , a large section of the population which could be described as neither rich nor poor , ranging from the prosperous shopkeeper or yeoman farmer to the skilled artisan in full employment . |
| 18 | Linda McCallum , who works at Milestone House , the Edinburgh AIDS hospice , said people in the latter stages of the disease could be described as hopelessly ill . |
| 19 | Not for the stuffy — white collars and ties are irrelevant and the atmosphere could be described as flamboyantly casual . |
| 20 | Pupils wear a distinctive uniform , and the atmosphere in the school could be described as quite formal . |
| 21 | If the old guard could be depicted as slightly fusty quasi-academics , the ‘ new boys ’ , who became the opinion leaders in the 1970s , with their retinue of henchmen and clones at local level , were more populist in their manner and opportunist in their principles . |