Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be expanded to cover certain forms of oral sex as well as vaginal and anal penetration by objects or parts of the body and could be rendered gender neutral . |
| 2 | One is a bare-bones system that would start with just solar panels and could be developed bit by bit into a laboratory for space-shuttle crews to visit . |
| 3 | For static recognition , this could be achieved pre-processing the whole text to determine the topic . |
| 4 | Everything could be converted tot he market : people and needs parcelled up on to some sort of national supermarket shelves . |
| 5 | The continuous darkness of the winter time could be made use of , but this has been less attractive both to volunteers and experimenters . |
| 6 | Institutions could be granted charters or licences to confer their own awards but it would be in the interests of higher education if the C.N.A.A . |
| 7 | A ‘ day certain ’ may be a fixed date or could be fixed b reference to the seller 's performance of his part of the contract . |
| 8 | Since 1987 , people declaring on their visa applications that they were HIV-positive could be debarred entry to the USA ( under legislation to control serious and infectious diseases , dating originally from 1951 ) . |
| 9 | Men could be seen grouping together , bugles and horns were sounded . |
| 10 | Black figures could be seen milling round the ditch at the far end of it . |
| 11 | A supermarket now occupies what was once a substantial spinning mill and green fields have replaced the massive four storey plate glass weaving shed that could be seen miles away with the BMK logo illuminated on top . |
| 12 | Evidence of this could be seen week after week from 1989 onwards . |
| 13 | There was a crash and a scream and bizarrely against the unrelentingly cheerful music two figures could be seen fighting . |
| 14 | And that takes your winter term and then you can , yo your clearing could be done starting |
| 15 | The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling . |
| 16 | Although only two attested examples of this usage have been found in modern English , the contrast between the bare and the to infinitive in these contexts confirms the percept/concept distinction observed above : ( 88 ) The smallest pin could be heard drop . |
| 17 | When I told him , his scoffing could be heard miles away . |
| 18 | In an attempt to define the basis on which a comprehensive GIS user environment could be built Rhind et al. ( 1989 ) proposed the Universal Geographic Information eXecutive ( UGIX ) as a system design . |
| 19 | On July 27 , 100 deputies and senators from the Solidarity Centre Alliance had petitioned Jaruzelski to stand down so that Walesa could be named President in his place . |
| 20 | The stronger move could be called anti-realist ; it denies the existence of evidence-transcendent truth and holds that differences which we are in principle incapable of recognizing do not exist . |
| 21 | The Government have created what could be called Frankenstein private monsters . |
| 22 | In fact we could be called Grattan Couriers but we call it , we 're called Direct Line . |
| 23 | The report suggested that these could be called Faraday Centres . |
| 24 | Iakov Solov'ev calculated that of the thirty-nine appointees only thirteen could be called opponents of reform , and three of those withdrew when they realized their helplessness . |
| 25 | We need to know what a teacher can do in a crisis that could be called teaching . |
| 26 | That such people could be called oligarchs is not surprising , since their aim was to keep power in their own irresponsible fingers . |
| 27 | In the tropics , where the bulk of the anurans live , it is not nearly so clear , and there are intermediate forms which could be called frog or toad with equal accuracy . |
| 28 | Both Mr Lewin and Mr Howard had displayed what could be called courage , Mr Lewin by throwing a punch at his assailant and Mr Howard by pursuing him even though he was being shot at . |
| 29 | Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ . |
| 30 | If it could be called living . |