Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thus the entry into the fourth bombing year could be termed a watershed in the fortunes of the Allied bomber offensive . |
| 32 | But before the alliance could be cemented a number of problems had to be resolved , not least of which was residual opposition within the society to its recent shift in direction . |
| 33 | A school with , for example , a difficult second year might need and could be offered a selection from in-service training for staff , an analysis/assessment exercise focused on the whole or particular parts of the school , a support teacher for particular departments , some kind of on-site unit , some share in off-site provision . |
| 34 | Humpage managed to dismiss both Gloucestershire openers , Broad and Stoviold , so the move by skipper Bob Willis could be accounted a success . |
| 35 | Hetzler saw in Joyce an intelligent and dedicated recruit to the Nazi cause , though it was unlikely that he could be found a job in any of the ministries . |
| 36 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 37 | The state is better able to protect the corporate ‘ grass ’ because he ( or she ) could be guaranteed a job for life as a reward for information leading to conviction for a serious corporate crime . |
| 38 | If anything I think women 's education now has to compensate a little erm and provide for those areas in which women start in a way that could be considered a handicap to men . |
| 39 | The suffering and self-conscious first-person singular manifested in Dyer could be considered a creation of the Gothic novel that came after him , and Dyer can also bring to mind the magus of a time before . |
| 40 | It could be considered a waste of prime parliamentary time . |
| 41 | Alternatively the story of how the Robartes family came to have the money to build Lanhydrock House in the Fowey valley could be considered a tale of blatant exploitation , outrageous usury and greed . |
| 42 | One way of indicating this intention would be to take some action contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty , but such signalling action could be deemed a breach of Article 18 . |
| 43 | The clever ones soon discovered that while banknotes could be seized a bank balance could not . |
| 44 | but I think that a sort of , the time we have perhaps on a could be used a lot more constructively . |