Sentence examples for could be means from inspiring English sources
The former Labour health secretary suggested some benefits currently protected from cuts - such as free TV licences and winter fuel allowances for pensioners - could be means tested in order to share the burden of austerity more fairly.
although top-up fees might deter poorer students if applied universally, they could be means-tested.
Personally, I can't understand how anyone could be mean-spirited enough to object.
I just don't understand what could be meant by "another act, which sustains".
They learned that friends could be mean as well as kind, and that life was not always fair.
When we were kids, my father had within him a well of anger that could be mean and bullying.
What they meant by this phrase was not merely that cops could be mean, but that capitalism had declared war on blue-collar prosperity itself.
One fifth-grade classmate, Mariah Campbell, recalled other students making fun of Mr. Harris-Moore's dirty clothing and said he could be mean to classmates.
THE idea that there could be mean streets on the Upper East Side may seem, to some New Yorkers, akin to the suggestion that alligators swim in the sewers.
