Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly that is a great defect : it is impossible not to wish that , musically speaking , the piece could be played an octave higher . |
| 3 | They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . " |
| 4 | " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , … |
| 5 | The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue . |
| 6 | I had to consider seriously the potential risk to John , but if the hostages could be made an issue at home , at the very least the Government would n't be able to ignore their plight and might , consequently , be influenced in their dealings abroad . |
| 7 | The public could be charged a tax specifically to pay for publicly funded legal services , in the same way as the National Health Service , Stephen Gilchrist , a London solicitor , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg . |
| 8 | His personal failure was for two reasons : firstly , that the metamorphosis from the Left-wing backbencher with a CND badge and a baggage of similar lost causes could be seen a mile off . |
| 9 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 10 | It would n't have any point that could be called a beginning or end , any more than the surface of the earth has a beginning or end . |
| 11 | A product could be called a part , product or finished product depending on the department . |
| 12 | If a swirling spiral of panic could be called a blank . |
| 13 | He was smiling , if that could be called a smile that drew his long mouth out of line , plucking the left corner obliquely upwards . |
| 14 | Not that Tiptoe could be called a child , by any stretch of the imagination . |
| 15 | None of the figures on any of the regulatory bodies was exactly a spring chicken , and none could be called a radical . |
| 16 | It was virtually desert country , the irrigation channels blocked with debris , nothing that could be called a tree to be seen anywhere . |
| 17 | McJannet said : ‘ With both Darlington and Torquay in the bottom three , it could be called a six-pointer . |
| 18 | For example : Enigma Variations could be called a character ballet because it describes ‘ the persons empictured within' by Elgar himself . |
| 19 | It would help to define how widely the term Gypsy applied , and who exactly could be called a gypsy . |
| 20 | The method used to achieve this could be called a filtering technique for , by analogy with the process of filtering as used in the chemistry laboratory , a particular part of a mixture ( the edges or boundaries ) was isolated and then added back to the original image to give Figure 5.14 . |
| 21 | Lamb House could be called a house of authors . |
| 22 | But some were certainly not : anyone of very advanced age could be called a centenarian ; precise calculations were rare , or rarely accurate . |
| 23 | It is could be called a movement , then it is one which is concerned with feelings rather than rights . |
| 24 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know what they were doing and I guess that could be called an orgy . |
| 26 | Also as has been suggested in the Non-Statutory Guidance for history from the National Curriculum Council pupils could be given a selection of materials in a scissor and paste exercise to design a poster explaining why French people wanted a revolution in 1789 . |
| 27 | It works better in another piece , beginning : ‘ If every event which occurred could be given a name , there would be no need for stories . ’ |
| 28 | The desire to isolate the factors associated with child abuse is understandable ; social workers and other professionals could be given a list of tell-tale signs , and they could then keep a particularly close eye on families at risk . |
| 29 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 30 | The college could be improved a lot . |