Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be [verb] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the war my mother worked in a factory making endless ground sheets which I was told could be turned into trench capes . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's said that if the flame-retardant with which they 're treated could be bottled it 'd be the first guaranteed aphrodisiac . ’ |
| 3 | And the conditions under which they are kept could justly be described as intolerable in any society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Die Frau ohne Schatten is a complex allegory , with an earthquake , a flood and a lengthy musical ending which it was suggested could be cut . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Recovery occurred within a market in which everything which was produced could be sold . |
| 10 | 2 In an effort to achieve this , she began a series of charcoal drawings on inexpensive white paper , which make it clear that what she was feeling could not be expressed with traditional , representational imagery . |
| 11 | The pub 's action would be more understandable if what you were wearing could cause offence to other customers , but it is hard to see how the item you describe could have upset anyone . |
| 12 | The voice-over device ( their spoken thoughts ) only works intermittently because much of what they are thinking could be spoken . |
| 13 | What he was saying could as easily have been a lecture delivered to a silent class : the starchy language , the self-satisfied delivery . |