Example sentences of "could [verb] be [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had also left her name and address they could have been parcelled up and posted to her — but she had n't . |
| 2 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |
| 3 | One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette . |
| 4 | Perhaps it could have been rounded up to seven hundred — still not quite accurate , but at least more accurate ? |
| 5 | After all , I could have been beaten up because I hinted in the Daily News that there was something improper about the Harley/Supersight deal . ’ |
| 6 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 7 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 8 | Darwin was anxious to show that even quite complex adaptations could have been built up gradually by natural selection from rudimentary origins that were common to all animals and plants . |
| 9 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 10 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 11 | Of course these ticket stocks could have been used up as Day Returns as no rate was quoted on the ticket . |
| 12 | In principle the integration of primary and secondary care should also be enhanced ( although this could have been speeded up if the government had integrated FHSAs with DHAs from the beginning ) . |
| 13 | These sporting contests between the house and the village ended with the arrival of a character who could have been dreamt up by central casting . |
| 14 | With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up . |
| 15 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 16 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |