Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] in different " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the playing time for both discs and cylinders was the same — about two minutes — but the fact that discs could be made in different sizes , all of which could be played on the same machine , was another advantage . |
| 2 | The reduced predictive power of the former test in treated coeliac disease patients could be explained in different ways . |
| 3 | Like many stories , this one could be told in different versions . |
| 4 | Not about the great figures of the game but of the subtle strategies behind it : the financial deals , how players could be disposed in different formations on the pitch . |
| 5 | I did get the feel , however , of using the pastels on a tinted background and noted the ease with which they could be spread in different thicknesses to achieve variable effects of colour and tone . |
| 6 | The broad support that the ECSC Treaty did receive was perhaps possible because , despite its complexity , it was rather inchoate : because it was couched in rather vague and ambiguous terms , it could be interpreted in different ways . |
| 7 | This could be interpreted in different ways , as later patriots were to find to their cost . |
| 8 | The patterns could be interpreted in different ways ; one possibility is to argue that the correlation with extra-linguistic variables constitutes evidence that the forms are simply different ways of saying the same thing , that differences in modal meaning which do not affect truth-conditions are merely stylistic and so may be ignored . |