Example sentences of "[adv] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 2 | Such problems can quickly develop into the situation revealed among the 20-50 employee size range in the job generation study — and perhaps could be improved by the development of support networks . |
| 3 | Here much could be achieved by freeing the existing facilities from obstructions and by introducing short-cuts to link up parts of the present network . |
| 4 | The primary visual cortex is surrounded by many secondary visual regions that seem to deal with special qualities of the image such as colour and movement , and in theory much could be achieved by assembling in appropriate ways information about the occurrence of different trigger features . |
| 5 | But in a court of law much could be made of these things . ’ |
| 6 | Much could be said about all these characteristics but of most significance for our purpose is the role of impartiality in relation to legislative and legal reasoning . |
| 7 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 8 | Maybe much could be learnt from my experience , which did go badly wrong . |
| 9 | Much could be learnt from day by day contacts . |
| 10 | Under the previous law , the conduct of the members of the group taken together could be assessed in deciding whether or not the behaviour was threatening . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 13 | Treasury Department sources have stated that , at most , $3bn annually could be raised by augmented enforcement of the existing transfer pricing rules . |
| 14 | The syntactic information for boy and +s below could be combined by a word grammar to produce the syntactic information for boys : e.g. |
| 15 | Dana was steadily centred right in the middle of Libra , and so could be regarded as a perfectly balanced human being , with a true equivalence of male and female , physical and intellectual , animal and spiritual , and I think it was from this delicate balance , never upset , that his magnetic force of personality derived . |
| 16 | Standard trestle piers could be joined , and so could be constructed to any height , width , or length . |
| 17 | But to do so could be seen as the prelude to a deliberate devaluation , rather than the logical consequence of the German action . |
| 18 | In Greaves [ 1987 ] The Times , 11 July , it was held that it was a question for the jury whether a gap of 17 days between burglary and handling meant that the accused was not the burglar and so could be convicted of handling . |
| 19 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 20 | Those who refused to do so could be removed from office or fined for neglect of duty . |
| 21 | Firstly , most of the competing hypotheses scored sufficiently less than the correct hypothesis and so could be eliminated by forwards pruning from the search on acoustic grounds ( see Fig. 9.2 , point B ) , thus preventing the growth of an increasingly large band of hypotheses . |
| 22 | All avenues were explored to see whether such a guarantee could be given by the Americans , but no way of doing so could be found without breaching the US Constitution . |
| 23 | East Prussia , jutting out from the River Vistula almost to the centre of the River Niemen , was penned between the Baltic Sea and the northern frontier of Russian Poland and so could be attacked from either , or both , east and south . |
| 24 | The vast majority of offences that are tried in the Crown Court ( almost 70 per cent ) are ‘ triable either way ’ ( see page 3 in the Introduction ) , so could be tried by either tier of court . |
| 25 | Although this was a far cry from the power and authority of a body like the United States Supreme Court , it nevertheless could be seen as the beginning of a practical appreciation of the concept of constitutionality as understood in the West . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 28 | The analysis above could be expressed in the following rules : In these rules the arrow means written as . |
| 29 | For example , the word ‘ veteran ’ given above could be pronounced in other ways than . |
| 30 | It became clear to the teachers that many of the objectives of the research model identified above could be achieved by building up skills of co-observation and self-evaluation within and between teachers . |