Example sentences of "could [adv] be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secular arm could only be enlisted in specific cases against named and duly warned individuals ; it could offer no aid against those categories of offenders pronounced , in various general and local sentences , as excommunicate ipso facto . |
| 2 | Through the eyes of bishops we can catch an occasional glimpse of little groups of them ; but with the conversion of the Franks from c .500 and of the English from c .600 onwards , they could only be found in large numbers on the fringes of Western Christendom and in the outer darkness beyond . |
| 3 | And more importantly , most rural schools do n't have electricity , so the television programmes could only be used in urban areas . |
| 4 | Iron concentrations ( 3.5 µM ) could only be estimated in gastric juice because of unavoidable contamination , but these were about 15-fold lower than previously reported values . |
| 5 | ( TV 5 could already be received in western Europe , north America and the Caribbean ) . |
| 6 | In any case , such approaches could scarcely be adopted in existing residential areas , because of high cost , the unsuitable arrangements of roads , or lack of space . |
| 7 | Although the serum antigliadin antibody-IgA value was more closely related to the study phase , a negative result could still be found in coeliac disease patients challenged with 500 mg/day of gliadin , a dose corresponding to a ‘ visible ’ amount of daily gluten containing food ( approximately 12.5 g of wheat flour ) . |
| 8 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 9 | Since he has shown this sort of network to be discernible in a wide range of different kinds of poetry , and since it is hard to imagine that it could also be found in non-poetic language , there seems to be a strong prima facie case for accepting his argument that the principle of equivalence provides an objective criterion for identifying the poetic function . |
| 10 | It could also be used in other subject fields , which currently lack specialist thesis listings , to generate maps of research activity . |
| 11 | Discretionary power of prosecution could also be used in deviant ways . |
| 12 | " Culture " provided a powerful countervailing force to those by now discredited attempts from the left during the 1930s to introduce " class as a category bearing on literature.a Liberty and individual freedom could now be defined in cultural rather than social or political terms as the free play of the human critical and evaluative impulse . |
| 13 | With the building boom brought on by suburbanization , land for a chapel could now be bought in prominent locations : the days of buildings tucked into a court of back lane had passed . |
| 14 | Authors belonging to either Silhouette , Harlequin or Mills and Boon could now be serialized in popular women 's fiction magazines , and Anne Mather 's Mills and Boon title Leopard in the Snow became a ‘ major motion picture ’ , distributed throughout the United Kingdom and North America as an ‘ Anglo-Canadian Co-production ’ . |
| 15 | The stability of the Gittins family could almost be matched in other parts of the parish by the Hanmers and the Atcherleys of Marton , the Watkinses of Shotton and less wealthy farmers such as the Downtons of Alderton . |
| 16 | The Okapi '86 word-matching procedures do not require much storage and the look-up is quick and efficient , and they could readily be implemented in commercial library systems . |
| 17 | We would argue that the kind of research conducted into the referral and investigative service of Rochdale NSPCC Child Protection Team could usefully be repeated in other social work agencies , particularly social services departments . |
| 18 | Farm workers could instead be housed in tied cottages which had other advantages in addition to providing suitable accommodation , not least of which were the convenience of having workers on call , the greater stability tied housing conferred on the labour force , and the reinforcement of ties of dependency . |