Example sentences of "[adv] could [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We are saved through the loving obedience of Jesus which is not just a mental state but is expressed and only could be expressed in bodily pain and death .
2 Treasury Department sources have stated that , at most , $3bn annually could be raised by augmented enforcement of the existing transfer pricing rules .
3 The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily .
4 For example , the word ‘ veteran ’ given above could be pronounced in other ways than .
5 Okay , so they 're unexpected can you thing of any , er , another kind of way of erm , other tasks that possibly could be described as reactive tasks ?
6 The lower animals still alive in the world today could be identified with particular stages in the overall development of life — a process that was replayed like a speeded-up movie film in the life of every human being .
7 The first answer is to argue that the computer-science phenomena described here could be established by non-linguistic means ( e.g. hardware readings of some sort ) .
8 On this occasion the Hansards seem to have been the main beneficiaries from the decline in the activity of other alien merchants , but they too could be affected by political rivalry , and periods of tension between England and the Hanse towns , even if this fell short of war , were marked by substantial falls in cloth exports by the Hanse merchants .
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