Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] could be [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already mentioned that woodland could be located at a distance from the settlement , as only infrequent visits needed to be made . |
| 2 | A fresh look could be taken at some of these , in order to determine their effectiveness in helping parishes both to respond to the liturgical changes of recent years and to explore a wider repertoire of music . |
| 3 | He was sitting facing the Assistant Commissioner ( Crime ) , across a desk so neat and orderly and so well polished that you knew no serious work could be done at it . |
| 4 | The report failed to state exactly how much timber could be harvested at present . |
| 5 | Conversely , the perception of replacement presupposes that no such identity could be established at the correspondence stage . |
| 6 | When the best signal is obtained , the optical fibre could be secured at each end using PVC tape . |
| 7 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
| 8 | It is important that this form is completed accurately ; if you fail to do so and , in particular , if you conceal any medical condition which could affect your work , your continued employment could be placed at risk . |
| 9 | If therefore the waters of the sea showed no signs of depletion of fish , an increased supply could be produced at a lower price after a time sufficiently long to enable the normal action of economic causes to work itself out . [ … ] |
| 10 | One possible solution was that fiscal policy could be used exclusively for the management of the level of employment , and monetary policy could be directed at raising interest rates to attract capital inflows and thereby offset the increase in imports in the balance of payments accounts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was found that an all-British car could be built at approximately half the cost of the £300,000 for an imported model . |
| 13 | But one practical contribution could be made at once by the IBA and the Governors of the BBC . |
| 14 | The original flight planned altitude of 31,000 feet was requested by radio on several occasions and the Oceanic Control Centre indicated that a higher altitude could be expected at 50°W longitude . |
| 15 | Speedy success was essential , since records gathered over the previous 80 years showed that at best only three weeks of rain-free weather could be expected at that time of the year . |
| 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 | A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect . |
| 18 | But a three-point plan for Mersey Ferries does create hopes that a new jetty could be built at New Brighton for cruise vessels to berth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The circular note could be cashed at hotels with which Cook had arrangements and a limited number of banks and bureaux de change . |