Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Men could be seen grouping together , bugles and horns were sounded . |
| 8 | Black figures could be seen milling round the ditch at the far end of it . |
| 9 | Evidence of this could be seen week after week from 1989 onwards . |
| 10 | There was a crash and a scream and bizarrely against the unrelentingly cheerful music two figures could be seen fighting . |
| 11 | And that takes your winter term and then you can , yo your clearing could be done starting |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We need to know what a teacher can do in a crisis that could be called teaching . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | If it could be called living . |
| 21 | ‘ If it could be called living . |
| 22 | I say nuclear catastrophe partly because any exchange of nuclear arsenals will bear no resemblance to anything that could be called war . |
| 23 | Like Hornblower , whose temperament was delighting readers with its contradictions at the same time as that of the Quinn adventures , Septimus has adopted certain measures of what could be called self-defence . |
| 24 | This independence means that , even without their head ganglia , insects can show some behaviour which could be called learning . |
| 25 | The link records in the above example could be called TIMETABLE and contain details of the particular class , for example , day , time , room number and so on . |
| 26 | In the eighteenth century none , with the possible exception of that of France , had carried out much that could be called research . |
| 27 | And the cosy civil-service culture of the railway , where poor managers are never sacked , could be turned upside down . |
| 28 | An accident could hospitalise you tomorrow — and your life could be turned upside down for months . |
| 29 | Everything that could be turned upside down was upside down . |
| 30 | Jessamy had been as overwhelmed as he had been , dazzled by the physical passion , and amazed that her own easygoing , relaxed attitude to life could be turned upside down by this one man . |