Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] could be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's said that if the flame-retardant with which they 're treated could be bottled it 'd be the first guaranteed aphrodisiac . ’ |
| 2 | App says that the next well where the test might soon be applied could be Cusiana-2A , but that decision will be taken as this issue goes to print . |
| 3 | It would also mean , as Charlotte knew , that awareness of what was happening would remain under one roof , that her judgement of what should and should not be done could be neutralized along with Ursula 's . |
| 4 | All that will be said could be put , although often less comfortably , in terms of individual properties or , occasionally , sets of them . |
| 5 | The poem proposes that a cause which appeared to be defeated could be revived through God 's agency . |
| 6 | For without Shas , Mr Rabin 's ability to deliver the territorial compromise upon which a peace would be based could be fatally weakened . |
| 7 | ( It has been suggested that one method by which a written constitution could be entrenched could be by " manufacturing " such a change in the norm of validity by altering the terms of the judicial oath so that judges would swear to uphold only laws which were in conformity with the constitutional provisions — per H. W. R. Wade , 1989 Hamlyn Lecture : Constitutional Fundamentals ) . |
| 8 | The success criteria against which developments will be judged could be : |
| 9 | The success criteria against which developments are to be judged could be : |
| 10 | In this way the language to be learned could be associated with a wider experience of language and education . |
| 11 | Another of many criteria to be identified could be the subsequent or continuing costs , economic and social , of proceeding with a particular treatment . |
| 12 | The measures to be taken could be pitiless indeed . |
| 13 | It could be argued that defendants who might otherwise have been acquitted could be persuaded to plead guilty to lesser offences . |
| 14 | Computer Based Learning — Multimedia Courseware now being developed could be delivered , or indeed remotely accessed , over a sufficiently fast network . |
| 15 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 16 | Who would have thought that the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written could be encapsulated in a microchip ? |
| 17 | If they make Æthelred 's activities appear considerably rosier to us than they did to contemporaries , this at least does something to explain how the king in whose name these high-sounding utterances were issued could be charged by his subjects in 1014 with hateful practices and injustice . |
| 18 | In this event sites from which they were removed could be returned to their former use as agricultural land , or left to return to a natural condition , without serious difficulty . |
| 19 | So I think it is a matter of erm importance for the structure plan its inclusion er and I think to put the an answer to one of the questions that was put earlier , if it is not to be left to the district to decide on where development is or is not appropriate in open countryside as defined in the structure plan policy , who it is intended could be making the decision on where development would be appropriate . |
| 20 | Skinnergate and High Row will be closed to traffic on an experimental basis , despite claims the town 's disabled could be driven out of Darlington . |
| 21 | Now plans have emerged for what is thought could be the first British private medical village . |
| 22 | how the other part of space is used could be left to individual departments on the basis that |
| 23 | Secondly , an attitude that is expressed could be an attitude towards the listener ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ friendly ’ way ) , towards what is being said ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ sceptical ’ or ‘ dubious ’ way ? or towards some external event or situation ( e.g. ‘ regretful ’ or ‘ disapproving ’ ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Personal politics ’ was the buzzword : the acknowledgement of the ‘ dark side ’ was always grounded in progressive humanism , the belief that what was twisted could be straightened out , that the shadows could be banished by the spotlight of analysis . |
| 25 | During the war my mother worked in a factory making endless ground sheets which I was told could be turned into trench capes . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that legislation was required , because , as said above , mid-nineteenth-century reformers thought that most of what was needed could be achieved by formalising the relationship by means of a lease . |
| 27 | Land which was sold could be made subject to restrictions and future development value could be reserved to the commission . |
| 28 | Recovery occurred within a market in which everything which was produced could be sold . |
| 29 | The Three were negotiating a trilateral free-trade zone to be implemented over a 10-year period , which it was hoped could be signed on July 1 . |
| 30 | He added that Croda-funded research at Stirling was now targeted towards developing a further ‘ Lorenzo 's Oil ’ which it was hoped could be used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis . |