Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing had to get through which could be used by his enemies . |
| 2 | This vicious circle tends to leave a ‘ rump ’ of inhabitants who are unable to run a car , many of whom could be defined as the ‘ transport poor ’ ( this term will be discussed below ) . |
| 3 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 4 | On the capital side , this meant that instead of all residential units being costed as if they would be ‘ new build ’ , twenty-five of them could be sited in existing buildings . |
| 5 | Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence . |
| 6 | The Cambridge group showed that most of these radio sources must lie outside our galaxy ( indeed many of them could be identified with other galaxies ) and also that there were many more weak sources than strong ones . |
| 7 | Some of them could be reversed by making the engine almost stop then run the opposite way . |
| 8 | You should keep a photograph and description of each rug on record , copies of which could be lodged with your bank or solicitor as an extra precaution . |
| 9 | There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame . |
| 10 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 11 | At first , the playing time for both discs and cylinders was the same — about two minutes — but the fact that discs could be made in different sizes , all of which could be played on the same machine , was another advantage . |
| 12 | The peace plan , which would allow for republics to declare independence , had been amended to allow for republics to form a common state , the economy of which could be organized on non-market lines ; the article granting autonomy to the ( currently Serbian-controlled ) provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina was deleted . |
| 13 | Wilkes and Stringer ( 1953 ) suggested the provision of several control stores , one of which could be plugged into the basic hardware to create a particular architecture . |
| 14 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 15 | In the background all this time was the knowledge on both sides of the Atlantic that one or two airlines had adopted anonymous reporting systems which had brought to light the most important and hair-raising incidents , some of which could be eliminated without difficulty by altering certain operating practices . |
| 16 | A celebrated , final , example is that of Sideroxylon ( Calvaria ) sessilijlorum ( Sapotaceae ) , only geriatric trees of which could be found in Mauritius , to which island it is restricted . |
| 17 | BM says that behaviour is influenced by two powerful forces , both of which could be modified by you in some situations . |
| 18 | Within the Sheffield proposal and Training Agency requirements , a high profile was given to the development of Careers Education and Guidance , Work-Experience , industry visits and work shadowing , all of which could be provided through a partnership . |
| 19 | He was still distressed , however , by the prolific trade in mutton bird feathers , two-and-a-half tons of which could be taken in a season — the produce of roughly 112,000 birds — and which would be sold for about 6d per pound in Launceston . |
| 20 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 21 | Both had wash-basins , one of which could be changed to a kitchen sink . |
| 22 | This effect can not merely be explained by a conceivable depletion of TBP , because transcription of the classical pol III genes requires only a very low amount of TBP ( 6 ; and our own unpublished results ) , the presence of which could be verified by western-blot analysis of hTFIIIB and hTFIIIC containing fractions used for the assay ( our unpublished results ) . |
| 23 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 24 | Up to one tenth of our domestic waste is glass , all of which could be recycled without any deterioration in quality . |
| 25 | Mr Milnes said most of Guisborough 's problems were caused by heavy lorries and tourist traffic , both of which could be alleviated by re-opening the railway , which would link into the Esk Valley , Middlesbrough to Whitby line . |
| 26 | Its practicability was also sometimes alleged to be proved by the existence of the Holy Roman Empire or the Swiss cantons , both of which could be considered as types of loose federation . |
| 27 | For example , domains that are closely related may have a large number of collocations in common , such that the recognition of one could be facilitated by a dictionary taken from the other . |
| 28 | It did not want to part with the medium-wave lengths which allowed simulcasting on both FM and medium-wave , so that the deficiencies of one could be remedied by the other . |
| 29 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 30 | Some of it could be ascribed to a basic weakness in the Council of Ministers ' decision-making machinery . |