Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not identify the Fairy Topic , either , and this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance , a grey mist , in which floated or could be discerned odd glimpses of solid objects , odd bits of glitter of domes or shadows of roofs in the gloom . |
| 2 | When Charles I went north at the beginning of the rebellion that was to cost him his head , his Lord General sent to Robert Barker , the King 's Printer , to bring a press to Newcastle-upon-Tyne , from which could be disseminated royalist proclamations and pamphlets . |
| 3 | But , if this notable service is rendered by your lordship , it could be recommended that the Earls of Dunbar and March could be made hereditary Keepers . |
| 4 | Or they could be extended strophic pieces developed from the old principle of the ‘ conventional ’ basses , the romanesca and the rest , as some of d'India 's are . |
| 5 | erm I wo n't go through too many of them , erm but Blue Boar Inn , for instance , had 21 extra people , had some of the King 's servants , some of the prince 's servants , they had two Scottish peers , and their servants , £ 21 extra people , in a big inn , there were 14 rooms , I think , that were , could be called living rooms , but never-the-less , I think it must have been pretty crowded . |
| 6 | All of these could be called private fears — they arise out of your own life pattern and needs . |
| 7 | In its verdict , the court found that ‘ the content of Suh Kyung-won 's conversation with the North Korean leader Kim Il-sung does not appear to have contained what could be called top secrets vital to national security . ’ |
| 8 | Judaism and Islam could be called polytheistic religions in the sense that they do contain traditions that represent Jews and Moslems as called upon to choose one of several gods and follow Him to the exclusion of others . |
| 9 | For similar reasons , the committee rejected an application that barristers employed by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Government Legal Service could be given extended rights of audience . |
| 10 | It is possible to imagine concepts in which A , B , … could be negated atomic formulas , but in practice , learning algorithms do not invent such concepts . |
| 11 | While labour could be paid poor wages they must also survive and be able to work efficiently . |
| 12 | Alternatively , the firm 's dividends could be forecast given forecasts of the share of dividends in GDP , assuming that a stable relationship exists between the firm 's dividends , the share of dividends in GDP and GDP growth . |
| 13 | Then Kao , Japan 's detergent giant , found that Japanese households could be sold space-saving packs of ‘ compact ’ powder . |