Example sentences of "[adv] they could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 2 | So , so they could be seen as restorationist but he 's making restorationist into a revolution . |
| 3 | So they could be stopped . |
| 4 | so they could be thrown over Oh this behaviour , no , they 're so inflexible with their programme ! |
| 5 | But how soon they could be made into practical ( let alone commercial ) devices is anybody 's guess . |
| 6 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 7 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 8 | Only she herself knew the evil thoughts she had and how effortlessly they could be translated into action . |
| 9 | And because they have flowered early they could be damaged by frost . |
| 10 | And eventually they could be replaced by American products . |
| 11 | The idea is not to attempt all these at once — rather they could be used as sections in a loose leaf file and added to at intervals . |
| 12 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 13 | Alternatively they could be set an exercise to find examples in annual reports and elsewhere of environmental reporting from a range of organizations or industries such as the Oil industry , the Chemical industry etc . |
| 14 | Maybe they could be used to build up the spiritual life . |
| 15 | As more components of the total error model become available as a result of research then they could be adopted . |
| 16 | This part of the task is very slow and time-consuming and if more than one plate is being constructed then they could be clamped together and all be drilled at the same time . |
| 17 | Colonel Mayhew was another , and Canon Devlin , but then they could be excused as being respected elders , as it were , of the community . |
| 18 | If the plans were laid , then they could be put into effect as soon as the children came home . |
| 19 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 20 | Other planned savings were attacked because they were bereft of any specific proposals as to how they could be achieved ( such as the planned reduction of $1,500 million in farm subsidies ) , or were derived merely from a change of financial practices . |
| 21 | In fact some of the Republics have such such a mixed population , it 's almost impossible to see how they could be separated out , Russians and Tartars erm , and all the rest of it , all intermingled to some extent . |
| 22 | Implicitly , the Government was saying that it knew what the problems were , and how they could be tackled . |
| 23 | But it was his experience as a Sunday-school teacher which left him wondering how discipline could be maintained with older boys and how they could be kept in touch with the Church once they became wage-earners and left the Sunday school . |
| 24 | Those involved in private care should arrange among themselves how they could be represented in the local planning process because if they are going to be covered by the planning arrangements then natural justice suggests that they should have an input in to the planning process . |
| 25 | In the steppes and the Caucasus they knew the dead could rise again , and how they could be stopped . |
| 26 | In the case of the other three functions , it will be argued that it is difficult to see how they could be treated as separate : for example , the placement of tonic stress is closely linked to the presentation of ‘ new ’ information , while the question/statement distinction and the indication of contrast seem to be equally important in grammar and discourse . |
| 27 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 28 | Jones then remarked that , even if there were some commercial benefits , he failed to see how they could be vouchsafed for Utah , and reviewed the history of his own group 's work at Brigham Young University . |
| 29 | The project then examined each of the crafts identified to show how they could be correlated with teaching in other school subjects , in particular , Language , Mathematics and Science . |
| 30 | From Cambridge it is , yes , er that 's actually one of its great strengths , because it is n't a thing which has been revised and added on to , it is completely new , and before we actually made it , our editor , David Crystal , er actually is probably the only person in the world to have sat and read through from cover to cover four other encyclopaedias , to find out what was wrong with them , how they could be improved . |