Example sentences of "[pron] could be [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another question which could be asked is : Would the beast have existed amongst the girls ? |
| 2 | A third objection which could be raised is that it would be undesirable if the suggested approach were to be applied to certain types of jurisdictional error . |
| 3 | A list of the social and economic problems which could be identified was drawn up by the Executive Committee and approved by the full Association . |
| 4 | The aims of the PMIS were outlined and the type of service which could be provided was described and discussed . |
| 5 | Where annual rents were protected by custom , the only payment which could be varied was the entry fine payable by a new tenant , and one can see a decline in these comparable with those in payments for leases . |
| 6 | Overall these are very comfortable necks to play , but the only areas which could be tidied are perhaps the most important ones : the nuts and the fret-ends . |
| 7 | A third effect which could be added is that business experience would be gained by the local merchant , and thus the society begins to develop a pool of people with such business experience . |
| 8 | In the canal carrying business the number of sons who could be involved was limitless and women and children could help to work the boats . |
| 9 | The only type of receiver who could be appointed was a receiver of rates who has no control over assets and no management control which a receiver normally has . |
| 10 | Each end of Glencoe was sealed off and every adult male who could be found was killed . |
| 11 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 12 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 13 | There is a there is but er er but er er the medium er er as best it could be used was was Spanish you see . |
| 14 | No one could go into his yard without a cane — which he appeared to be terrified of — and the viciousness he displayed when anyone was near his food was so extreme that the only way he could be fed was to throw his food over the fence ! |
| 15 | What could be said is that the same moral demands apply to the means as to the ends in the quest for Truth , and that often difficulties arise because of these demands . |