Example sentences of "could be [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew when to put the tape on , I could start it while she was in the bathroom , she did n't wander off while it was recording , and the machine could be underneath and out of sight . ’ |
| 2 | The fiction was that they could be honestly and legitimately equalized at the same quota figure , even though Haughey had nearly three times as many first-preference votes as Brady , and even though almost half of the votes by which Brady reached the quota were votes of second or lower preference , culled by transfers from nine other candidates in nine counts . |
| 3 | For the first time , the marks made by the artist could be accurately and directly reproduced on to plates . |
| 4 | It is important to remember that the Enlightenment as a set of economic or administrative reforms could be conscientiously and effectively applied by men indifferent or hostile to it in its higher sense as a movement transforming the human consciousness . |
| 5 | ‘ … until Dr Greene told her he 'd decided to deliver , then she perked up immediately and insisted on an epidural so that Bill could be there and she could see the baby straight away . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ After all , if it 's worth so much to you , you could be there and back in a day easily . ’ |
| 7 | Then she sparkled , took a ritzy walk to the bar and could be delightfully and surprisingly coarse . |
| 8 | In The Absoluteness of Christianity he rejected the idea that any historical phenomenon , including the Christian faith , could be absolutely and universally valid , but still tried to hold that Christianity was nevertheless in some fashion the ‘ normative ’ form of religion . |
| 9 | It occurred mainly in communities with poor diets and was eventually identified as a deficiency disease which could be promptly and completely cured by supplying adequate food . |
| 10 | The conception of the centrality of literature could be tacitly and uncontroversially assumed in a 1919 bulletin of the Association where the general goal of promoting " the exact study of our literature which the English Association has at its heart " is simply stated as self-evident . |