Example sentences of "could [adv] be [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Global warming could soon be accelerated dramatically due to a thinning of the sea ice , Mrs Thatcher said yesterday in the 50th anniversary lecture of the parliamentary and scientific committee at the Lords . |
| 2 | GLOBAL warming could soon be accelerated dramatically due to a thinning of the sea ice , Mrs Thatcher said yesterday . |
| 3 | A famous Champagne house sporting blatantly low stocks , or declaring cellars which could easily be judged too small for the firm 's recorded production , would have invited the Nazis to make an intensive search . |
| 4 | The effect unsettled him , and he found the fact that he could still be unsettled somehow curious . |
| 5 | In the 1850s a factory of 300 in Britain could still be considered very large , and as late as 1871 the average British cotton factory employed 180 people , the average works manufacturing machinery a mere eighty-five . |
| 6 | Here " head " ( , ) and " pate " ( ) are the pair , and are perhaps completely synonymous ( though the latter could reasonably be thought more specific or " concrete " than the former ) . |
| 7 | A statutory definition more restricted than existing law could also be rendered reasonably precise , especially if it abandoned the idea of public benefit and rejected many charities now falling under the fourth head . |
| 8 | The most genuinely modest personality it is my pleasure to know , George had to be bullied by a number of us to sit for his sculpture by Archie Forrest who could well be considered as adept with clay as he is with paint . |