Example sentences of "[pron] could be [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case a solution was at hand , although it helped the teacher rather more than the children : it was to neglect those children working in curriculum areas perceived to be relatively unimportant ( such as art and topic work ) , to devise for them low-level activities which could be tackled with minimal teacher intervention , and to focus attention on those children who demanded it . |
| 2 | It includes assets which could be converted with relative ease and without capital loss into spending on goods and services . |
| 3 | Private sector use of the SDR as a unit of account or the basis for international transactions has been very limited because of the absence of SDR-denominated assets which could be purchased with SDR-denominated deposits . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These dogs look happy enough , but they could be riddled with canine complexes . |
| 6 | Initially , they were filled with slate dust , so they could be played with ordinary heavyweight pickups . |
| 7 | Speadsheets have not so far figured largely as a resource for history , but they could be used with certain types of documentary sources . |
| 8 | It is interesting , however , to consider one particular aspect of climate and leisure facilities to see if they could be coupled with other national benefits and needs . |
| 9 | They could be purchased with hard currency but not roubles . |
| 10 | It was marketed under the name Distaval and the advertisements in 1961 indicated that it could be given with complete safety to pregnant women . |
| 11 | He says it could be to do with common land rights or fertlity , but no one really knows . |
| 12 | Such solitariness was a condition and not a mood , however ; it lay beneath those moments of inexplicable high spirits when Eliot seemed , as Sherek put it , " as gay as a cricket " , just as it could be combined with apparent activity and " busyness " in the world . |
| 13 | It could be linked with other tourist attractions in the city by running steam trains along an existing track through the docks . |
| 14 | Is not some examination of our moral responsibilities called for , and how much better if it could be associated with economic success . |
| 15 | Mr Davies ' remarks can be interpreted in two ways : the public expression of a maverick opinion , in the manner of Bill Cash or Ivan Lawrence ; or he could be acting with covert government backing as a kind of stalking horse to gauge the reaction from MPs , and the public , to his suggestion . |
| 16 | Services were often inadequate and expensive , because the Treasury had refused to provide money for investment ; managers were full of ideas of what could be done with new and cost-cutting technology . |