Example sentences of "[Wh det] could [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The same kind of basic research continued after the war and provided the groundwork for endless discoveries which could be applied to peaceful ends .
2 This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering .
3 The model most frequently projected by medics was of a militarized conception of health , which could be extended to key groups within civil society .
4 Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject .
5 If an undergravel filter is in use , whether downflow or reverse-flow , then extra biological filtration is totally unnecessary within the canister which could be put to better use with chemical media .
6 Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience .
7 In future , it recommended the construction of something which could be transported to several shows .
8 It is perhaps a feature which could be added to many of the existing railways in some way so that the many enthusiastic photographers can enjoy that aspect of our hobbies without some of the restrictions that are presented today ?
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