Example sentences of "[Wh det] could also be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This display or retail system , which could also be adopted for domestic use , consists of shelving , rails , hangers and tables , with white-painted metal tubular elements finished with the almost classic black shiny ball trim . |
| 2 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
| 3 | In his view , it is the failure to develop the social and political attitudes appropriate to a welfare society , which could also be called a democratic socialist society , that is responsible for the limited success in building a welfare state . |
| 4 | This refusal is much more of a " classic " polite refusal : it is not immediate ( being offset instead by laughter , which also marks it as " non-serious " ) and is immediately followed by an excuse ( " I 'm gon na take Natasha over the park " ) , which could also be seen as a bid to be treated as doing something equivalently onerous : looking after a child instead of washing up . |
| 5 | This had a single edge and a thick , heavy blade which could also be used as a bludgeon ( the ‘ flesh cutter ’ and the ‘ bone breaker ’ ) . |
| 6 | Of course , there are internal aspects , such as the semantic cohesion within the lexical field established by my drink , which could also be appealed to in claiming that this chunk of discourse is a unit of some kind . |
| 7 | The FIS and IS in this passage can equally be understood as " narrative report of speech act " ( NRSA ) ( Leech and Short 1981 : 323 – 4 ) which is a mode of speech summary less faithful than FIS and IS to the actual verbal structure of the original ; and the ambiguity is amplified by the suggestion in the third sentence that Rousseau 's text autonomously " yields " information without intervention from a critic — a sentence which could also be considered as a form of NRSA . |
| 8 | Each beatitude begins with the word ‘ blessed ’ , which could also be translated as ‘ happy ’ . |
| 9 | But as I argued earlier , there is in every social scientific theory a component which Schumpeter called ‘ vision ’ , but which could also be described as the background ideas in a paradigm , that is influential in determining the focus of attention and the choice of central issues for analysis . |