Example sentences of "[noun pl] could be put " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never hurt to know in advance what well-provisioned castles could be put at the King 's disposal at short notice . |
| 2 | Data about different castles could be put into the computer and the different castles compared . |
| 3 | These solutions could be put in place with or without the implementation of a managed competition system . |
| 4 | My mother used to tell me how Grandmother scrimped and saved during the summer months so that precious golden sovereigns could be put away in a padlocked wooden box to ensure survival during the next winter . |
| 5 | The demands placed upon them by academic subjects could be put on one side , they could devote their minds with urgency to the mastery of new skills and knowledge . |
| 6 | To develop their awareness and need to know their product simple questionnaires could be put to the staff along the lines of : |
| 7 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 8 | Various reasons could be put forward . |
| 9 | An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that |
| 10 | Until new institutions could be put in place , this common confidence in de Gaulle was the only effective source of unity in the nation . |
| 11 | The role of the probation service became clear when the Home Office published , in 1988c , Tackling Offending — An Action Plan ' , a document setting out how these proposals could be put into practice . |
| 12 | She said she would like to hear from members of the central community council who were wondering how their opinions could be put forward ‘ now that the local Labour Party has denied them a voice ’ . |
| 13 | In his first address to both houses of the Congress on March 1 , Lacalle requested a 100-day " social truce " between business sectors , trade unions and political parties in order that state accounts could be put in order . |
| 14 | To highlight the problem , and to try to explore solutions , SAVE published a report , A Future for Farm Buildings , which illustrated the many uses to which farm buildings could be put without compromising their character or integrity . |
| 15 | Beyond these factors were the numerical weakness and cultural backwardness of the working class , the low average productivity of labour ( even if the factories could be put back to work ) , the vastness of the land area and the isolation of its rural inhabitants , the barbaric inheritance of Tsarism — all in comparison with the exiguous forces of the Bolshevik party . |
| 16 | If employees , consumers , and other corporate victims had their awareness sharpened and supported by trade unionism , consumerism , and environmentalism , and if the state and legal institutions could be shamed into closing the gap between lofty principles and tawdry practices , then some of these old ideas could be put into effective operation . |
| 17 | If , in some way , the text cursor could be treated like a graphics cursor , which is free to roam under the control of a joystick or trackball , these ideas could be put into practice . |
| 18 | Her mother and Omi and Paul were in , going through the arrangements for the party and wondering where the various guests could be put up — for free . |
| 19 | EXTRA GUESTS COULD BE PUT UP OVERNIGHT ON THEIR SAILING BOAT , USUALLY MOORED AT THE END OF THE THEIR BALCONY . |
| 20 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 21 | The auditor must examine whether resources could be put to alternative uses , whether objectives could be achieved by an alternative strategy and ( if practicable ) compare the operations of one particular department with another . |
| 22 | The old man 's offer to buy the cottage was tempting , a few thousand pounds could be put to immediate use , but it was an offer he could n't accept . |
| 23 | At this stage it is anticipated that quota trading to secure premium payment on ewes that were already part of the 1993 claim will take place between 15 April and 15 June — although the dates could be put back and the period might be shortened . |
| 24 | She wondered how long ago it had begun and how many of her difficulties could be put down to whatever was the matter with her . |
| 25 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 26 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 27 | He thought that modern techniques could be put to use , where in some cases they 'd been tried and failed beforehand . |
| 28 | These controls could be put in place through legislation or indirectly through the expansion of tightly managed care plans that in turn monitor use of technology . |
| 29 | ‘ The risk of cot death could be greatly reduced if children could be put to sleep on their backs . ’ |
| 30 | Walton thought that larger stores could be put in smaller towns : ‘ There was a lot more business in those towns than people thought . ’ |