Example sentences of "it could [adv] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after the permission of the seventies , when sex was banalized by becoming available , it could no longer be the instigator of desperation ( it 's that state of mind that is indispensable to rock , not physical fin ) . |
| 2 | Someone had trapped folded paper in the bottom drawer and removed the handles so it could no longer be opened except , perhaps , by a very strong man . |
| 3 | Some body , when it could no longer be persuaded to ski down a mountainside . |
| 4 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 5 | One speaker was introduced with the sobriquet that his ambition ‘ was never to become involved in Unix ’ , a more general view being that it could no longer be ignored , even if little good might come of it ! |
| 6 | Individuals were rational , and war was not a rational tool of foreign policy , since it could no longer be used to achieve the goals traditionally associated with it . |
| 7 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 8 | This right of access to the Court has not been exercised by many third States , but could failure to deposit a non-party declaration with the Registrar of the Court be taken as non-acceptance of the right so that it could no longer be claimed ? |
| 9 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 10 | Soon it could no longer be seen by the naked eye , but the professor continued to watch it through binoculars . |
| 11 | It could no longer be run efficiently by unpaid part-time officials , however dedicated to the cause of the deaf and dumb . |
| 12 | He was not impressed by all the hocus-pocus with the Scapegoat nor by the gossip which linked Jordan with the dead man , but beyond all that he was beginning to feel — to sense that this was a sinister crime , an expression of hatred , long nurtured in secret until it could no longer be contained . |
| 13 | Eventually , the star would be so dim that it could no longer be seen from the spaceship : all that would be left would be a black hole in space . |
| 14 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 15 | They said because Mr Fallon had achieved so much in bringing industry to Darlington it could no longer be treated as a depressed economic area . |
| 16 | It could even now be starting the greatest revolution our British culture has ever known . |
| 17 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 18 | It could also well be the case that to allege that sponsorship and consultancy are permitted because they offer a lucrative source of additional income would be a contempt . |
| 19 | But it could equally well be a consequence of a difference in difficulty between the two pre-training tasks . |
| 20 | The fact that the Sun is producing far less of these enigmatic particles than expected could well be a symptom that it is going through a quiescent period — although it could equally well be that there is something wrong with our theories concerning what makes the Sun shine . |
| 21 | It could equally well be seen as an attempt to draw attention to problems in the world that her audience might not be aware of . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to sound sinister , but it could equally well be used to trigger off the detonator in an explosive device being carried by an American Air Force bomber . ’ |
| 23 | It might be obvious that an object had a religious purpose , but often even this is debatable : a small , crudely carved wooden figure might be the cult statue of a god , but it could equally well be a child 's toy . |
| 24 | Finally , the high turnover at the polls might be indicative of changes in the local population , or prudential calculations amongst particular electors as to whether it was worth one 's while trying to exercise one 's right to vote ( on the logic that people will not bother to turn up to the poll if they believe their preferred candidates have no chance of success ) ; it could equally well be indicative of various forms of electoral manipulation and influence , such as the artificial creation of new electors , the ability of returning officers to prevent one side 's supporters from polling , or the ability of some members of the local elite to " persuade " electors not to register a vote in opposition to their wishes . |
| 25 | It could equally well be the product of several reconstructed remnants ( Smith 1975 , 280 ) . |
| 26 | It could soon afterwards be 20 or more . |
| 27 | Although the heredity principle still has its proponents in some quarters , few would admit that it could any longer be defended . |
| 28 | Instead , it could more satisfactorily be explained as a continuum , with recall directly dependent on the kind of encoding that is carried out . |
| 29 | Of what use was the truth , she asked herself bitterly , when it could so easily be turned against her ? |
| 30 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |