Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly that is a great defect : it is impossible not to wish that , musically speaking , the piece could be played an octave higher . |
| 3 | They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . " |
| 4 | Similarly , a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation . |
| 5 | " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , … |
| 6 | The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue . |
| 7 | I had to consider seriously the potential risk to John , but if the hostages could be made an issue at home , at the very least the Government would n't be able to ignore their plight and might , consequently , be influenced in their dealings abroad . |
| 8 | He could be granted a free transfer by FIFA when they adjudicate within a fortnight . |
| 9 | The public could be charged a tax specifically to pay for publicly funded legal services , in the same way as the National Health Service , Stephen Gilchrist , a London solicitor , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg . |
| 10 | The fact that such a proposition could be presented a industrial democracy exposes the reality : that the exercise was about the extension of the powers of unreformed trade unionism . |
| 11 | His personal failure was for two reasons : firstly , that the metamorphosis from the Left-wing backbencher with a CND badge and a baggage of similar lost causes could be seen a mile off . |
| 12 | ‘ This levy could be seen a s a form of compulsory insurance against the need to use money advice services , ’ the NCC said . |
| 13 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 14 | ‘ He could be gone a long time , you know . ’ |
| 15 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 16 | For example : Enigma Variations could be called a character ballet because it describes ‘ the persons empictured within' by Elgar himself . |
| 17 | Robbins ’ Dances at a Gathering could be called a romantic ballet because it uses classical technique coloured by natural emotional expression . |
| 18 | None of the figures on any of the regulatory bodies was exactly a spring chicken , and none could be called a radical . |
| 19 | Not that Tiptoe could be called a child , by any stretch of the imagination . |
| 20 | Lamb House could be called a house of authors . |
| 21 | For example , the Laki eruption taken as a whole constitutes a splendid example of a fissure eruption , but along its twenty-five kilometre length dozens of small volcanic cones were built up , none of them very big , although each one , if considered separately , could be called a central vent volcano . |
| 22 | But some were certainly not : anyone of very advanced age could be called a centenarian ; precise calculations were rare , or rarely accurate . |
| 23 | An alternative science — what could be called a psychodynamic science — has been described as the study of live objects which are seen , experienced and recognised subjectively in contrast to traditional sciences which study ‘ objects only ’ : |
| 24 | Many of our decisions will have enduring practical implications of what could be called a moral sort . |
| 25 | One or two of the few houses that make up the hamlet of San Sano were acquired and transformed by the owner with great mastery into the attractive Hotel Residence San Sano , Signor Matarazzo 's taste runs to what could be called a ‘ glorification of simplicity ’ . |
| 26 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 27 | This pre-existent knowledge could be called a ‘ getting-up schema ’ . |
| 28 | It is could be called a movement , then it is one which is concerned with feelings rather than rights . |
| 29 | It would n't have any point that could be called a beginning or end , any more than the surface of the earth has a beginning or end . |
| 30 | It was virtually desert country , the irrigation channels blocked with debris , nothing that could be called a tree to be seen anywhere . |