Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my anger breaks the glass , I could be smashed to smithereens . |
| 2 | On the way we stopped in many towns and villages , so that I could be shown to people . |
| 3 | If I could be bothered to . |
| 4 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 5 | Should the patient cease to accept treatment voluntarily and reject supervision , resulting in deterioration of his mental state , he or she could be recalled to hospital . |
| 6 | With her sensuous smile and her bare shoulders , she could be likened to a contented cat who knows she has found a good home . |
| 7 | She could be matched to any of four performers in the floorshow ; Josie was n't sure why , but it was as if her teenager 's skin and certain odd , somehow held-back elements of her personality made her into a blank sheet onto which anything could be drawn . |
| 8 | She died , aged 19 , in 1445 before she could be married to James Douglas , third Earl of Angus . |
| 9 | But the widow of a vassal was commonly at the disposal of the vassal 's lord : so long as her consent was obtained ( by whatever means ) and so long as she was not disparaged , she could be married to whom the lord chose . |
| 10 | It only worked if she could be brought to the surrendering pitch of exhausted or ecstatic release . |
| 11 | Recollecting his churlish behaviour , Isabel wondered how she could be attracted to such a man even for a moment . |
| 12 | You could be invited to one of these . |
| 13 | There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies . |
| 14 | I 'm in no hurry to get married , and anyway , it would n't be right while you 're still wishing you could be married to someone else . |
| 15 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 16 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 17 | Landscapes were empty and without meaning unless they could be related to an inner view , to a feeling of emptiness or apprehension , a sadness , a surge of hope , an ecstasy . |
| 18 | They were not thought particularly interesting , until , in 1952 , Herring and Galt chanced to bend some tin whiskers and noticed that they could be bent to a strain of about 2 per cent and still recover elastically . |
| 19 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 20 | ( Most of the examples come from England , although they could be generalized to other common-law systems . ) |
| 21 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 22 | According to Townsend 's estimates , over half the people in Britain at some state in their lives may well experience relative deprivation to such an extent that they could be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ for those periods . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , they could be said to be implicit justifications of an almost fully formulated nature , in that they provide reasons for the existence of the monarchy and its ceremonial occasions . |
| 24 | They could be likened to the dynamic force of a volcanic eruption . |
| 25 | This was reinforced by the tendency of national governments not to handle unpopular decisions if they could be transferred to the High Authority for action . |
| 26 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 27 | The structure of the ‘ curriculum for all ’ rests fundamentally on the Conservative government 's intention to locate children in standardised hierarchies of achievement in each subject throughout their school career , so that they could be compared to each other , their teachers ' performance compared to that of other teachers and their schools ' standards set against their competitors in the marketplace . |
| 28 | They could be applied to anything regardless of whether it was an Oxford College , or for that matter an oak tree or my dog . |
| 29 | But they could be seen to be so " from below " as well as " from above " . |
| 30 | If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death . |