Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enoch Powell , who needed nobody to tell him that he could n't win ( he knew that perfectly well ) , was not the object of anything that could properly be called a campaign : he was a loner with just a few devoted friends behind him . |
| 2 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 3 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 4 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 5 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 6 | This is a choice ( whether conscious or unconscious is a different matter ) , but could scarcely be called a style . |
| 7 | The skull of a Celtic princess which was dug up more than a hundred years ago could soon be given a face . |
| 8 | BRITAIN 'S first legal red light district could soon be given the go-ahead . |
| 9 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the British began to drop hints to American diplomats to the effect that , while they wished to remain a Middle Eastern power , this could not be considered a certainty without some assurance of American support . |
| 11 | He could not be considered a priority case , but officer Ms Jayne Gardener managed to find the bed and breakfast place in Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | In 1922 the capital of the guberniia could hardly be called a bastion of the proletariat . |
| 13 | LADY in black Jackie Miller could hardly be called a mo-pedestrian either . |
| 14 | Now to an event that could hardly be called a sport , even though it did produce a new British champion . |
| 15 | The elongated , slightly oval hummock could hardly be called a grave , more a burial mound . |
| 16 | The integration of its railway system — it could hardly be called a network — was a major problem . |
| 17 | The garden could hardly be called a garden ; it was large , wild and not too well kept . |
| 18 | There was bougainvillaea in flower , clambering up the stone walls , small white roses on thin stalks among the weeds , and wild flowers in what could hardly be called a garden . |
| 19 | That the evening could still be counted a success was partly down to the attack and verve of the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir . |
| 20 | She had once shown me , at some distance from the train in which we were travelling , a high brick wall enclosing the park of a great house : in this wall could clearly be seen a door , and through that door , Grandma told me , she had always passed when going off duty . |
| 21 | There is nothing that could reasonably be called a head ; merely a small light-sensitive spot ; no heart , only a number of pulsating arteries ; no fins or limbs , only a slight dilation at the hind end like the flight feathers of an arrow . |
| 22 | What Freud called the wishful purpose could also be called the structuring principle . |
| 23 | Over and above setting a brief for the risk management team to identify , analyse and evaluate all risks that could impact on the balance sheet to a greater extent than , say , five per cent of gross profit , Ure recommends it could also be given the task of tackling risk areas where the organisation suffers continual losses . |
| 24 | At Wolverhampton , the bookmakers could also be dealt a blow by Shillelagh ( next best 4.45 ) . |
| 25 | And that could fairly be called an act of express consent . |
| 26 | It had been given to her in case an emergency arose , but it seemed to Mrs Blakey that the atmosphere which had developed in the house could n't be called an emergency . |
| 27 | A fund was set up for its restoration , but before the work could even be started the campanile collapsed . |
| 28 | Palmer could well be given a marking job on Bergkamp . |
| 29 | Actually some groups in current Western society wear what could almost be termed a uniform , in that it serves to give them a distinct identity , for example skinheads , hippies , and the tinted , spiked hair brigade ; in fact these non-verbal cues can influence interaction to such an extent that one has to be careful to avoid stereotyping , sometimes quite erroneously . |
| 30 | This ‘ sport ’ is , of course , confined to scruffily attired , working-class yobbos , and therefore , I am certain , in Mr Worsthorne 's eyes , could never be accorded the status of a ‘ tradition ’ . |