Example sentences of "[prep] they could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly each of these aims could be furthered by standing rules ; but their are probably other ways in which each of them could be achieved . |
| 2 | He chose to spend his moments of relaxation with his political cronies , though none of them could be said to have enjoyed his full confidence . |
| 3 | I do n't know if any of them could be bribed to poison the water . |
| 4 | POLICE are clamping down on Scarborough 's night clubs and it is likely that the licence of one of them could be threatened . |
| 5 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 6 | But 90 per cent of them could be prevented actually if we had better working and environmental conditions or were n't so stressed and needed to smoke and drink to kill the pain of daily life . |
| 7 | The only reliable way to see them was to pass in front of the building and turn left into the road to the cemetery : from that side some of them could be seen craning out of the windows and waving . |
| 8 | Sometimes the two of them could be seen muttering together in the playground . |
| 9 | On the capital side , this meant that instead of all residential units being costed as if they would be ‘ new build ’ , twenty-five of them could be sited in existing buildings . |
| 10 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 11 | So what was the point of discussing any of the myriad amendments over the past six months if so many of them could be shrugged off as ‘ ineffective ’ ? |
| 12 | When you have both finished , talk about them and think of ways in which each of them could be improved . |
| 13 | Additionally , Blake was involved in checking Communist infiltration into the British sector and as part of these duties he began to learn Russian and had some officially approved contact with the Russians as part of a plan to see whether any of them could be persuaded to become British agents . |
| 14 | Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike . |
| 15 | Neither was short of opportunities to form new relationships , but somehow neither of them could be bothered to do so . |
| 16 | Until these attitudes change , a lot of teeth — and their owners — are going to be subjected to grief which many of them could be spared . |
| 17 | Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence . |
| 18 | Not one of them could be described as ordinary . |
| 19 | The Cambridge group showed that most of these radio sources must lie outside our galaxy ( indeed many of them could be identified with other galaxies ) and also that there were many more weak sources than strong ones . |
| 20 | Some of them could be reversed by making the engine almost stop then run the opposite way . |
| 21 | During this time , churches were frequently the private property of a local lord , they were part of the resources of an estate , and any revenue from them could be used by the owner . |
| 22 | Sizes range from They could be used for perimeter walls and the like if finished with a decorative rendering , if other materials prove too expensive . |
| 23 | These factors — the noble connections of churchmen and the extent of their involvement in the secular world — meant that the king 's attitude to them could be determined not only by the importance of their spiritual role in a society in which religion mattered , but also by an intricate web of personal political allegiances and aspirations deeply rooted in lay affairs . |
| 24 | Moreover , only a conditional right of savages to the land occupied by them could be recognized . |