Example sentences of "them could [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they can not detain us here , an examination of them could well be a step towards dispelling them for ever . |
| 2 | The Department of Justice also published the names of 787 people granted indemnity for leaving the country without authority , although it was not clear how many of them could still be liable for prosecution for other offences . |
| 3 | This meant that West European currencies when paid to non-Western Europeans for goods and services imported from them could now be freely converted . |
| 4 | Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining : these were the rules of the game , and the two of them could only be patient . |
| 5 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 6 | The value of this work can be assessed by the fact that of 2,000 parts which may be needed for the repair of a bomber , 1,000 of them could often be obtained from such recoveries . |
| 7 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 8 | Only the priests remained , and the Colonel and the Factor and none of them could really be asked . |
| 9 | Now however Ludens had stepped for a moment inside the charmed circle , and things between them could never be the same again . |
| 10 | Whether skilled or unskilled , the vast majority of fathers of brides in the sample were engaged in manual trades ( 110 of the 161 ) , and most of them could safely be assumed to be skilled workers . |