Example sentences of "[noun prp] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the day grew ever nearer the excitement mounted and if November 5th fell at a weekend , we had an added bonus because the whole of Saturday could be spent in topping up . |
| 2 | From their historical perspective Marx and Engels could be forgiven for arguing that late-nineteenth-century Britain had a repressive capitalist state . |
| 3 | For their point of view , if Gundovald could be established in the kingship , he would be a new patron . |
| 4 | The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Hurd , who on Oct. 4 had sketched out the idea that an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait could be followed by a Middle East peace conference involving all five permanent members of the UN Security Council , switched the emphasis of UK public policy towards a more threatening posture on Oct. 14 , asserting that Saddam Hussein 's " only choice is whether he leaves of his own free will or at the point of a gun " . |
| 6 | Mr Gorbachev could be forgiven for wishing he could plead a diplomatic cold , and steer clear of celebrations where a wake would be more apt . |
| 7 | He also believed that greater financial support for the WEA could be obtained from the LEAs in the region . |
| 8 | Eleanor could be presented to his mother , even if Karen and Caroline and all the others could n't . |
| 9 | In addition , United States bankers , and beneficiaries of and applicants for the issuance of letters of credit remained concerned that unless the solvency and reliability of the NVOCC could be established by the FMC prior to the issuance of an NVOCC bill , cases of non-existent goods or of unpaid freight or related charges would multiply with the growing number of issuances . |
| 10 | AS England 's most capped and successful scrum-half , Richard Hill could be forgiven for swapping his boots for a pair of slippers and gazing with fond memories at a trophy cabinet bulging with evidence of a career full of top honours . |
| 11 | Relief came more quickly than my troubled heart expected , for it had been decided that the matron of the SPG hospital at Mandalay could be spared for rural medical work . |
| 12 | This importance was partly strategic : by walling off the Isthmus ( land narrows ) of Corinth , as was done in the Persian Wars and again in the hellenistic period , the Peloponnese could be turned into an island , or a tortoise with its head tucked in , as the Roman commander Flamininus put it . |
| 13 | When Williams appeared to like the idea , Orton totally changed the part so that it could fit him , not so much like a glove , but like a well-crafted cabinet , one in which Ken could be displayed at his finest and with plenty of space to ensure that nothing got in his way . |
| 14 | There needs , however , to be a significant movement of political will before , in the first instance , OSF could be re-admitted to the fold . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose Jefferson could be connected with a magic ritual which made use of Cathedral candles , ’ Ian said speculatively . |
| 16 | TIPSS could be undertaken in the acute situation or soon after haemostatic injection sclerotherapy for the index bleed in patients with a high risk of rebleeding but this requires evaluation in controlled trials . |
| 17 | With his latest southern signings , Harry Kenny and Ray Duffy , arriving after the deadline for Europe , Walker could be forced into a comeback himself to make up the numbers . |
| 18 | With over 60 per cent of the French market tied up between them , the Peugeot-Citroen group and Renault could be forgiven for thinking they had little to worry about . |
| 19 | Debt-ridden Poland and Hungary could be sucked into hyperinflation . |
| 20 | Military planning and preparations were begun , and as early as 5 August Eden was suggesting to Eisenhower that if Nasser could be compelled to " disgorge his spoils " the " secondary objective " — the collapse of his regime — might follow . |
| 21 | Pondering on , I wondered how Ireland could be prevented from copying every harmful change in English life as soon as it occurred . |
| 22 | Such enemy forces based in Korea could be neutralised through air action . |
| 23 | In all truth , no place in Scotland could be compared to the Gorbals of Glasgow . |
| 24 | Scotland could be placed in something of a dilemma if both were ruled out , but Paterson remained confident both will recover . |
| 25 | Christopher could be featured on the BBC after a television crew filmed his brave story . |
| 26 | An area in England could be contrasted with the experience in Wales or Scotland . |
| 27 | England could be sent to Sicily . |
| 28 | It says something for Ramsey 's person and mind and reputation that one of the two most Anglo-Catholic professors in England could be elected on the proposal of two nonconformists . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it was now possible for men to decide their political allegiance for religious reasons ; England could be identified with the Protestant cause . |
| 30 | Elizabethan England could be portrayed as a period before emigration to the American colonies began , before the ruptures between a British and American way of life existed . |