Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 2 | It was in France , however , that during the eighteenth century a well-organised foreign ministry of a recognisably modern sort could most easily be found . |
| 3 | He suggested that in order to take the decision , organizations could most usefully be categorized in one of three different ways : |
| 4 | The research should also indicate specific geographical regions where in-depth analyses of syntactic variation could most usefully be carried out . |
| 5 | What fun there was at Party conferences could most often be found outside it — in the Grand Hotel , where the prominenti stay and the Irish plant bombs , at the many and various meetings of the conference ‘ fringe ’ and among the bars , coffee stalls and bookshops which accompany the conference on its triangular three-year odyssey between Blackpool , Bournemouth and Brighton . |
| 6 | The most important Old World sources of corundum are located in Thailand , Burma , Sri Lanka , Kashmir and Afghanistan , which shared the characteristic that they could most readily be tapped by the India trade to the west . |
| 7 | French cooperation in the EEC in the years immediately after 1958 could perhaps best be described as the lull before the storm . |
| 8 | ‘ This new era could perhaps best be labelled ‘ the era of free market competition ’ . |
| 9 | It could perhaps also be called squarane . |
| 10 | The reasons could perhaps only be determined by interview , as supervisor pressure may well be the factor operating here . |
| 11 | The reasons could perhaps only be determined by interview , as supervisor pressure may well be the factor operating here . |
| 12 | Four agents were detected in less than three patients each , however , and could threfore not be tested at 5% significance level . |
| 13 | However , I should add , it is with regret that we have to take such drastic intervention , a course which could so easily be avoided through co-ordination and commitment by other agencies close at hand . |
| 14 | Nigel and I were , above all , struck by the sympathetic treatment of an area which could so easily be spoiled . |
| 15 | Middle-class ladies needed to vet prospective female servants ; they could so easily be morally defective . |
| 16 | Of what use was the truth , she asked herself bitterly , when it could so easily be turned against her ? |
| 17 | One of the chief limitations on cowries as currency is that their value was liable to be severely depressed by reason of the huge quantities in which they occur in some areas and the fact that they could so readily be transported by ship . |
| 18 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Possibly , to authorise financial assistance to be given by the target as part of the Court Scheme under the exemption for schemes of arrangement contained in CA 1985 , s153(3) ( e ) ( see para 22.1.5.3 below ) , which could only otherwise be provided afterwards ( with consequent delay ) . |
| 20 | But this reform could only feasibly be carried out within companies and plants by single employers , rather than by multi employer associations.7 Hence , the move towards single employer bargaining in Britain became more firmly established , especially in large firms which had the necessary managerial expertise to undertake such reforms . |
| 21 | The light was fading to a point where the battlements of the Hovis tower could only just be distinguished from the pinkish-gray of the sky . |
| 22 | If you present the letters very rapidly , just so they could only just be detected , erm you 'd find that sometimes X and Y would be confused , whereas X and P were very rarely confused . |
| 23 | But the proposed analogue HDMAC could only ever be an interim standard , as it has been generally accepted , for some time , that analogue HDTV would eventually be superseded by digital HDTV . |
| 24 | Great numbers might drift through the drama , of course — thousands in fact — but they could only ever be phantoms , agents or , on rare occasions , reflections of the three real and self-willed beings who stood at the centre . |
| 25 | Such arrangements are also often associated with the custom of keeping men 's and women 's worlds sharply segregated , although as Saifullah Khan ( 1976 ) points out in her discussion of purdah in Bradford , the luxury of remaining truly separate could only ever be afforded by the comparatively wealthy . |
| 26 | She said that there could only ever be one true faith , and that must come from the Apostle Peter , the rock upon which the Lord had founded His church and to whom He had given the power to loose and unloose on earth and in Heaven . |
| 27 | And yet , self-denied , he was still dominant , rampant male , she the one reduced to mindless begging for the release she now knew could only ever be temporary because she was an addict already , enslaved by him as he fed her again the fatal taste , the bitter-sweet of his passion , and her own . |
| 28 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 29 | A citizens charter could only ever be a creature of a Conservative Government , for one cardinal and overriding reason — the Labour party is beholden , in terms of funding , finance and philosophy , to the producers , rather than the consumers , of services . |
| 30 | If desired the expulsion clause might specifically leave such matters to the discretion of the partners , though that discretion could only validly be exercised in good faith . |