Example sentences of "could easily be [verb] by " in BNC.

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1 The unwary traveller could easily be perplexed by the names of shops in Japan , as it 's fashionable to give shops names in Japlish , with no regard — or with the wrong regard — to the word 's original English meaning .
2 The plastic floats at the top of the net could easily be detected by sonar , but in drift-nets , they are on the surface , where , even if detected , they would not give the dolphin any cause for alarm .
3 However , if bottom-up recognition was poor , P could easily be misled by extraneous words into following incorrect hypotheses .
4 The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production .
5 ‘ That letter could easily be disowned by the Chancellor .
6 Based in the international press room along with some 60 or so other reporters from around the world , Mace watches , records and listens , aware that any time , his imminent live report could easily be overtaken by events .
7 Some could easily be found by incorporating screening for AF into the routine health checks on over 75s already carried out by UK general practitioners .
8 In the first exact solution of this type , given by Bell and Szekeres ( 1974 ) , the singularity on the hypersurface was shown to be only a coordinate singularity that could easily be removed by a coordinate transformation .
9 The Vietnamese and their Cambodian friends say that any peace plan so far offered could easily be subverted by the Khmers Rouges .
10 Again , this could easily be resolved by using more nurse speakers .
11 This could easily be produced by orogenies occurring simultaneously in two or more continents .
12 By putting up a clergyman as a candidate , he could rely on the vote of hundreds of MAs who , sitting in their country rectories , could easily be persuaded by a judiciously worded letter that their old University was falling into the hands of infidels .
13 This could easily be used by other members of a herd as a way of naming an individual zebra .
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