Example sentences of "and could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have , for example , a spare traverse of the Skye Ridge which must have high bargaining value and could be swopped for the Mamores , the Grey Corries , the Aonachs or similar . |
| 32 | Rotary generations take many forms , however they are all based upon rhythmic rotation through an angle and could be expressed graphically as a waveform along a time axis . |
| 33 | Growing up was much harder than was ever said , involving , as it must , both the practised , clinical coldness to which she aspired combined with a proper sense of pity when it was called for and could be expressed with dignity and without embarrassment to the parties concerned . |
| 34 | This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it . |
| 35 | Meanwhile , giant Hull prop Ian Marlow is out of Saturday 's Regal Trophy semi-final match with Wigan and could be joined by at least five other pack colleagues . |
| 36 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 37 | It would also appear that the rule applies to realty and could be applied to the builder of a house and possibly a local authority building inspector . |
| 38 | There are so many suffixes that it will only be possible here to examine a small proportion of them ; we will concentrate on those which are common and productive ( that is , are applied to a considerable number of stems and could be applied to more to make new English words ) . |
| 39 | On a visit to Northern Ireland , he was brash enough to taunt the region that it was a burden on the Westminster exchequer and could be cut off without a penny . |
| 40 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 41 | Hospital ethical committees have been suggested as an independent source of advice to doctors and families to the most appropriate decision , but Prof McLean said their conclusions would have no legal standing and could be challenged . |
| 42 | It is a question of management policy what terms are quoted and could be based on any of the following systems : |
| 43 | They have regularly been used to put pressure on management during major negotiations , and could be said to be part of the ritual of collective bargaining . |
| 44 | All the TARDIS sections were integrated , like a jigsaw , and could be arranged in any number of abstract ways without the visual suggestion of the set being lost . |
| 45 | Conversely , as the ( mainly Italian ) school of ‘ criminal anthropology ’ purported to prove , the criminal , the anti-social , the socially underprivileged , belonged to a different and inferior human strain from the ‘ respectable ’ , and could be recognised as such by measuring the skull or in other simple ways . |
| 46 | However , the latter 's impact was extremely superficial and could be explained on the grounds of the familiarity of Koreans ‘ with the laws of their quondam masters ’ . |
| 47 | Such a commodity , once acceptable , performed the role of a medium of exchange and could be regarded as money . |
| 48 | President Carlos Saúl Menem began an official 10-day visit to France and Belgium on Feb. 12 , continuing the efforts of his government to project the image of a new Argentina which was economically and politically stable and could be regarded by the West as its most reliable ally in Latin America [ for Menem 's November 1991 US tour see p. 38572 ] . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Thanks to Clive Wilmer among others , an exhibition of paintings , sculptures , photographs and printed material bearing on Pound 's interests in ‘ the visual arts ’ was mounted for the Cambridge Poetry Festival on 14 June , and could be seen in Cambridge 's not sufficiently renowned Kettle 's Yard Gallery until 4 August ; it will now be at the Tate from 11 September to 10 November . |
| 51 | ‘ We have to recognise the strong feelings among black and white people that the party should not set up an organisation which is racially exclusive , and could be seen as a form of apartheid . ’ |
| 52 | By not calling it a ‘ Nuclear Obligation ’ , the government hoped to avoid a charge of totally rigging the market and could be seen to at least throw out a lifeline to the renewables . |
| 53 | But for him too , as for most working-class children ; the closest memories were of grandparents who lived nearby and could be seen frequently . |
| 54 | The P. pictus were very active and could be seen at all times of the day , the Bumble Bees were a lot more secretive and only ventured out to grab some quick grub and late at night . |
| 55 | An aquatic monster , the grampus frequented English lakes and could be seen spouting huge columns of water as it wallowed in warm , muddy water . |
| 56 | On one level the policy of local agencies evolves in a way that is ‘ disjointed ’ and ‘ incremental ’ and could be seen as the antithesis of responsible party policy-making . |
| 57 | Other charity administrators say that Wolfson 's policy could help to legitimize the campaigns of anti-vivisectionists and could be seen as implicit criticism of the efforts of laboratory researchers . |
| 58 | colleges these days , but then I realised that he would not be interested in a girl unless she had cantilever overhangs and could be seen five miles away from the top of a bus . |
| 59 | Willis had noticed Woodie 's return , and could be seen gesturing behind the window of the deckhouse , expressing joy , pointing him out to Janet , and waving to him to come on in . |
| 60 | Working conditions of the taxi driver are extremely poor and could be likened to Victorian times , hours worked are ra rarely less than sixty per week , there is no holiday pay , no pension rights , no sick pay , and no say in which way the trade is administered by local authorities . |