Example sentences of "could [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon . |
| 2 | The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent . |
| 3 | We could only do so if in our view he was so clearly and outrageously wrong that his decision could properly be said to be irrational . |
| 4 | Since the unit almost certainly operated some Piper Cubs , it could loosely be said to be an airfield memorial ! |
| 5 | Moreover , the excavations produced much evidence of the destruction of buildings and the massacre of the population , which took place after the successful Roman siege of 211BC , and among the destruction layers were found a number of the earliest issues of the Roman denarius coinage , whose introduction could thereby be dated to 211BC or shortly before . |
| 6 | He gave it as his opinion in 1926 , shortly before Browne 's inglorious departure , that the current state of affairs in Masai District represented ‘ indirect administration in its purest form ’ , and thought this happy circumstance could mostly be credited to Browne , whom the Masai ‘ greatly respect and honour ’ . |
| 7 | The difference in phosphatidylethanolamine values between the two patient groups could perhaps be related to the type of cellular rarefaction typical of chronic atrophic gastritis and to the difference in quantity of inflammatory infiltrate between the two groups . |
| 8 | A simple pro forma could perhaps be designed to this end for 1993 . |
| 9 | A simple pro forma could perhaps be designed to this end for 1993 . |
| 10 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 11 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 12 | It could only be assimilated to it if ‘ I disapprove of prostitution ’ were treated as a tentative way of saying that prostitution is wrong , that is , as a tentative expression of an attitude against prostitution rather than as an expression of one 's awareness of one 's own disapproval of it . |
| 13 | The Brecknell-Munro ‘ B/1 ’ trolley mast was slightly offset towards one side and one end , although identical in appearance to those on Corporation cars , these could only be turned to one side and small arrows had to be painted on the bulkheads ( later inside the headlamp . ) |
| 14 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 15 | He thought that precisely because it was impossible for the human mind to construct an idea of God from its inherent mental resources , such an idea could only be given to it by revelation — in other words directly implanted by God Himself . |
| 16 | It could only be given to a child in very mild doses because excessive use could cause ‘ retard growth and lasting disfiguration ’ . |
| 17 | In the other indirect antecedent condition the information in the target sentence could only be related to the context sentence by the making of a bridging inference . |
| 18 | After landing , the aircraft was found to have split fabric and extensive minor damage to the wings , which could only be attributed to overstressing at high speed . |
| 19 | ( Civil cases in Singapore could only be taken to the Privy Council in London if both parties agreed in advance of hearings at the Court of Appeals . ) |
| 20 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 21 | While Fountains Abbey , the great Gothic ruin set in beautiful parkland , could naturally be transferred to the National Trust given a suitable endowment ( who would provide the millions needed for that ? ) , and Westminster Abbey 's Chapter House could be entrusted to the Church of England , it is uncertain whether some of the less glamourous archaeological sites could be hived off to local councils without risk to their future . |
| 22 | But once the reforms really bite — signs would be a sharp rise in unemployment a far bigger influx of private western investment and radical currency reform — then it would be worth offering the sort of help that could sensibly be given to reforming debtors in Latin America : capitalization of interest payments above a certain share of export earnings . |
| 23 | This was a tolerably painless process since they could generally be provided to a clerical living in their retirement . |
| 24 | The prolonged duration of reflux seen during pH monitoring or after a meal in PSS could thus be related to defective clearance or to a greater quantity of reflux . |
| 25 | Whatever their ultimate truth or falsity , beliefs and ideologies could thus be subjected to exactly the same kind of functional analysis as other social phenomena . |
| 26 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 27 | In other words , although the Formalists took a very important step in making language central to their definition of literature , their theoretical shortcomings could largely be attributed to their failure to extend a theory of language to other spheres . |
| 28 | A dangerous junction in Darlington could soon be closed to motorists after a series of accidents . |
| 29 | Councillors heard last night that the junction of Orchard Road and Hollyhurst Road , near Darlington Memorial Hospital , could soon be closed to cars . |
| 30 | Even as this work was being carried out , freight traffic was in decline and BR soon made clear its intention to close the line as it could not be converted to 25 Kv AC . |