Example sentences of "and could [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They knew how it should be used , and could doubtless be taught more and more about how to put this knowledge to good effect . |
| 2 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 3 | Although the picture he gives is over-simplified it is thought out clearly and could scarcely be presented more lucidly or vividly . |
| 4 | Another candidate is the Burgess Shale Echmatocrinus , currently interpreted not as a cnidarian at all , but as an echinoderm , the earliest crinoid : the supposed tube feet are very large and could instead be anthozoan-like tentacles . |
| 5 | It literally means a rug manufactured in the Orient , and could legitimately be applied to any rug of oriental origin , regardless of its appearance or how it was made . |
| 6 | X and her husband could find peace of mind and could somehow be helped to strengthen their marriage . |
| 7 | Gay said with a chuckle , for Felicity loved to pose as a Cassandra , and could generally be relied upon to make a remark of that kind . |
| 8 | The rubbish stuck to the bottom of the wax , and could easily be scraped off to leave the scented fawny cake clean and pure . |
| 9 | The technology has been developed by scientists at Britain 's Department of Transport and could easily be used to cut traffic in cities in Britain and elsewhere . |
| 10 | The fourth is a few steps up the ladder and could easily be used as a gigging guitar , although it still carries hallmarks of the mass-produced Korean instrument . |
| 11 | Absences due to sickness and holidays could easily be covered because most people now knew most jobs and could easily be switched around . |
| 12 | In 1875 Caton , the professor of physiology at Liverpool , had shown that electrodes placed on the exposed brain of a rabbit could record electrical pulses , but Berger 's records came through the skull and could easily be dismissed as artefacts until his results were systematically vindicated by the Cambridge neurophysiologists Adrian and Matthews in the mid-1930s . |
| 13 | Chapman was particularly struck by the fact that the ground was just across the road from Gillespie Road Underground station , and could thus be reached easily from most parts of London . |
| 14 | The latter , Durkheim asserted ( wrongly , as later anthropological field studies were to show ) predominated in primitive conditions and could thus be employed as a measure of the mechanical solidarity present . |
| 15 | Morphology was a descriptive rather than an experimental science , but it was conducted in the laboratory rather than the field and could thus be presented as a symbol of modernization . |
| 16 | Probably this is due , more than anything else , to the sheer quantity of plant material and could thus be a measure of area . |
| 17 | The accord followed a decision reached in July by the European Court of Justice that waste was not necessarily a " commercial good " , and could thus be exempted from the principle of free movement of such goods , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 18 | Reggie is in Blundeston jail , Suffolk , and could soon be free . |
| 19 | Sandra Walker finds her inspiration in bricks and buildings rather than landscapes , and could soon be accepted into the prestigious Royal Institute of Watercolour painters . |
| 20 | The Joynes Jukebox is already attracting alot of interest from abroad and could soon be gracing cafes and bars all over the world . |
| 21 | — DARLINGTON defender Les McJannet and midfielder Gary Gill came through a game for the reserves unscathed and could soon be set for first-team action . |
| 22 | This step is highly VAX/VMS specific and could probably be replaced by some more universal coding in the perturbation software . |
| 23 | This interpretation of trust law is founded on well established authorities and could probably be overturned only by a decision of the House of Lords . |
| 24 | However , the patterns used in these studies were extremely coarse and could probably be discriminated by developing tricks like scanning the eyes across the stimuli and judging how much the brightness changes during the course of the scan . |
| 25 | We reasoned that the lack of cooperativity at the UV5 promoter should result from the loss of productive interactions between the two proteins and could probably be visualized on the promoter DNA at the hinge region between the binding sites of the two proteins . |
| 26 | both these play as ‘ amateurs ’ and could probably be bought for a relative small amount of pounds … other ‘ amateurs ’ include Bohinen ( who made 2–0 against England at home and is linked with Nottingham and an Italian Serie A club ) and technical wonderboy Erik Mykland who might go to France or Italy ( he is really to small and skinny to play in England ) . |
| 27 | After 1714 the balance shifted to a point where the King and the Commons had something like mutual vetoes : the King chose the ministers and could normally be sure of not having to put up with a minister he disliked , but the Commons could reject a minister they disliked by refusing to vote for the taxes he proposed , thus pushing the King into dismissing him . |
| 28 | Traditionally the Pru was a passive investor and could normally be counted upon to favour the incumbent management in a takeover bid — under Newmarch that approach has changed . |
| 29 | Ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease belong to the group of idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases and could theoretically be extremes of the same disease . |
| 30 | When she was very close and could finally be heard , she said , ‘ Where are you both going ? ’ |