Example sentences of "could be [verb] [adv] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to Easingwold , well of course Easingwold is at present outside the area of search , erm but again I do agree with what Mr Courcier has said , it would be a doubling the size of Easingwold , Easingwold is a small market town of high environmental quality , the existing form and pattern of development within Easingwold , erm exercise constraints over the scale of future development , the central area is of a certain size , of a certain quality , it 's got a certain amount of capacity to accept further development , and I do n't believe that a a erm grafting a fur further fourteen hundred houses could be fitted in to that existing infrastructure without serious harm . |
| 2 | To allow the army in Egypt to deliver an early riposte to the Axis forces facing them , before these could be built up to any really dangerous strength , a fast convoy carrying 295 tanks , 180 motor vehicles , and 53 crated Hurricanes had been despatched from England , leaving Gibraltar on the morning of 6th. with Force ‘ H ’ in attendance . |
| 3 | There were even Jacobite ballads , some of them performed by itinerant singers ; in this way , the Jacobite message could be transmitted even to those who could not read . |
| 4 | It would be unreasonable to expect the reader to believe that so many professional scientists and administrators could be taken in to such an extent as the tale required . |
| 5 | If only we could be transported instantly to some Eastern couch , in some dream , out of time … |