Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx believed that by the mid-nineteenth century workers in England could not easily be exploited any more than they were already : for example , the working day could not be any further extended . |
| 2 | And the disturbances could not strictly be called racial : the most prominent feature was that of violent clashes between young people and the police . |
| 3 | Of a worship service in which no mention was made of Christ , the bible was not read , and no reference made to God 's dealings with the people of Israel or of the early church , we might well say that it was theistic ( if mention was made of God ) , but it could not rightly be called Christian . |
| 4 | We have already said , that of a liturgy in which no mention was made of Christ , we might hold that it was meaningful , even theistic , but that it could not rightly be called Christian . |
| 5 | If I could n't produce a marriage date , and Nigel could n't officially be registered dead without it , perhaps he was n't , because legally he could n't be , and when I got home I 'd find … |
| 6 | The other major seems to be , to do with ideas about what we would qualify , but could equally well be called ritual purity and impurity . |
| 7 | Charged by Bragg with writing up notes on the case , Morton decided that they could equally well be done that night , at home . |
| 8 | If , however , the authority to make appointments to the board of a nationalised industry did not reside solely in Government , but in part in trade unions as the instruments of industrial democracy , the Secretary of State could no longer be held responsible for the fitness of the board to discharge its functions ; and it would no longer be meaningful for Members to ask Questions , nor possible for Government to answer them constructively . |
| 9 | Humans could no longer be allowed any such privileged , mystical feature as free will to distinguish them . |
| 10 | Film-production funds , for example , could no longer be considered compatible with EC law , nor could support funds for the visual arts and for authors and translators of literary works ( the latter being particularly important in the smaller language areas of Europe ) . |
| 11 | The introduction of the ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ system of parole for convicts who could no longer be transported provoked waves of anxiety from 1853 onwards that dangerous criminals were being released to prowl the streets of the metropolis with no evidence of the character reformation promised by the new prison disciplines . |
| 12 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |