Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So were the shapeless spaces between the buildings , which could never be called streets . |
| 2 | As a result , in the nineteenth century a national region which could fairly be called Yakutia extended over 1,6000 kilometres from the Vilyui river to the Kolyma and nearly as far from the middle Lena to the shores of the Arctic Ocean . |
| 3 | No — their secrets were first revealed to curious scientific men , to apothecaries and simples-collectors , to people who could now be called botanists , and such was Evan Roberts . |
| 4 | ‘ That way , you could just be adding lines that are n't there . |
| 5 | ‘ With a lot of will we could still be building ships there , ’ said 57-year-old Hughie , who has seen the Whitby shipbuilding industry decline so much that there are now just two people making traditional Yorkshire cobles . |
| 6 | Even in 1939 there could still be found peasant holdings in eastern Europe where the old pattern of division of open fields into scattered strips survived , and it was commoner still in 1880 . |
| 7 | It is conceivable that they could even be denied permission to reproduce their own work . |
| 8 | If , for any reason , South African Richard Snell decides to go back to his studies or does n't ask for a renewed contract with Somerset , they could also be eyeing Aqib . |
| 9 | They could therefore be called continuants , though the term is usually applied to the frictionless continuant /r/ . |
| 10 | It could also be called ordeal by song , though the traditional and somewhat discordant songs sung by the trainers are said to have a soothing effect . |
| 11 | By all accounts , Elena was the architect of this meanness : it could hardly be called peasant hoarding , since she would not keep leftovers , but certainly discouraged even her husband from rare bouts of generosity to the staff . |
| 12 | She listened to the Beatles on the radio ; it could only be to annoy Ken . |
| 13 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 14 | A particularly tight swarm hummed around Mme Andre Malraux , widow of France 's first Minister of Culture , admiring a group of what could politely be called doodles by her late husband at prices between £100 and £800 . |
| 15 | They also seemed to have what could only be snorkeling devices on the tops of their heads . |