Example sentences of "[noun] could be [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 2 | The horse could be left at the local inn and its owner would soon come looking for it . |
| 3 | It never hurt to know in advance what well-provisioned castles could be put at the King 's disposal at short notice . |
| 4 | In theory , any matter which is relevant to whether the applicant should be awarded a remedy at the hearing stage is also relevant to the decision at the hearing stage of whether the application should be allowed to proceed ; in other words , leave to apply for judicial review can be refused on any ground on which a remedy could be refused at the hearing stage . |
| 5 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 6 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 7 | Green belts were made feasible by the land use planning system established by the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 : local authorities were obliged to prepare development plans showing land use allocations and , because of the compensation provisions , green belts could be included at no direct cost to local authorities . |
| 8 | We have already mentioned that woodland could be located at a distance from the settlement , as only infrequent visits needed to be made . |
| 9 | Quite often operations could be cancelled at the last moment owing to worsening weather conditions , and this must have been a terrible let-down for them , after getting themselves keyed-up for yet another hectic night . |
| 10 | It would seem an appropriate forum in which the issue of mountain bikes could be considered at a strategic policy level . |
| 11 | Five years ago , schools were asked to develop their programme of personal relationships so that the right sort of foundations could be laid at an early age . |
| 12 | The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks . |
| 13 | If it does happen however , there is a strong possibility that the fight could be staged at the 70,000-capacity Skydome in Canadian-reared Lewis 's home town of Toronto . |
| 14 | 144 , it was ruled that the somewhat similar provision in the English Act of 1910 against adjourning for over a month struck only at the consideration of new business and that matters before the court at the general or adjourned meeting could be considered at a further adjournment out with the month . |
| 15 | 144 , it was ruled that the somewhat similar prohibition in the English Act of 1910 against adjourning for over a month struck only at consideration of new business , and that matters before the court at the general or adjourned meeting could be considered at a further adjournment outwith the month . |
| 16 | As no suitable package could be purchased at an acceptable cost , it was decided to carry out all systems analysis and programming work in-house . |
| 17 | Products were shown individually and in room settings with the complete new collection showcased on the right-hand pages so that all the designs and colours could be seen at a glance . |
| 18 | A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect . |
| 19 | Thus unacceptable strings could be rejected at an earlier stage , leaving fewer for the lexical look-up to check . |
| 20 | Cray Research Inc is expected to ship its first massively parallel processor , due in the second half of 1993 , in configurations with up to 1,024 Alpha processing nodes , hears Electronic News : indeed ‘ several thousand ’ processors could be supported at a customer 's request . |
| 21 | As part of the drive to impose an appearance of order on the world , nineteenth-century science created a vast body of numerical information all carefully arranged so that geographical variations could be ascertained at a glance . |
| 22 | Similarly , a lower inflation rate could be achieved at the cost of an increase in the unemployment percentage . |
| 23 | If all the health authorities performed at the same rate as the top 25 per cent. , an additional 186,000 patients could be treated at no extra cost . |
| 24 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 25 | The British consul-general in Seoul , D. W. Kermode , informed London on 8 February that Rhee intended sending Byung Chic Limb on a ‘ goodwill visit ’ to Britain and that Rhee hoped Limb could be received at the Foreign Office . |
| 26 | A budget of £7.17.10 in 1910 meant that only twenty-five babies per week could be seen at the clinic ; but the work continued , and expanded . |
| 27 | The treaty could be signed at a UN conference on the environment and development in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , in 1992 . |
| 28 | One son of a senator lived in hope : the partition wall separating his double bed from the one in the guest suite next door could be removed at the pull of a lever . |
| 29 | It might be held so that this currency in turn could be used at a later date to make foreign purchases of goods or services , a method often used to hedge exchange risk . |
| 30 | John Pain also had vivid memories of this occasion : ‘ Once again the loss of a pilot could be laid at the door of the A.V.M. He was still insisting that the most senior officer led the flight . |