Example sentences of "[Wh det] could [be] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congress duly approved funding of $200 million , but subsequently objected to the Defense Department 's initial proposals for projects which could be supported by it . |
| 2 | This defect was ingeniously got over by developing a hardener which could be painted by itself on to one half of the joint while the glue was painted on the other half , nothing began to happen in the glue until the two halves were brought together . |
| 3 | The only improvements which could be made to them are minor ones . |
| 4 | Even if Popper 's claims for ‘ World Three ’ and Olson 's for ‘ autonomous text ’ were valid — and Rommetveit 's work casts further doubt on them the world which they are striving for would be an impoverished one and the ‘ knowledge ’ which could be stored in it would be narrow and limited . |
| 5 | The presence of two different guanine-nucleotide exchange proteins in the same complex questions their respective physiological roles , which could be related to their specific N-ter domains . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is true , certainly , that a number of workers who have investigated it with a view to debunking it were so impressed by the results which could be obtained with it that they became its champions instead of its detractors . |
| 8 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 9 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 10 | Terry Heneaghan , Pittencrieff 's chief executive , said he did not look at the deal in terms of oil or gas production and reserves which would be acquired , but rather in terms of cash flow which could be generated for his company by rationalising operations of the two companies in parts of the US where they both have interests . |
| 11 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
| 12 | It is just conceivable that the Inland Revenue , thicketed about with legislation and case law , might think these provisions of the Income Tax Acts had some concern for a transaction of that nature , but that is hardly a view which could be shared by one who got out and looked at the wood as a whole . |
| 13 | There were heavy curtains which could be pulled around it , to hide the sleeper from anyone else in the room . |
| 14 | The preacher had taken a girl out to kill her , but had made of her a weapon which could be used against him . |
| 15 | President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines stood by her decision to forbid the return of Ferdinand Marcos 's body for burial , saying his corpse still had a ‘ malignant power ’ which could be used by his followers to seize power . |
| 16 | Nothing had to get through which could be used by his enemies . |
| 17 | One patient found that the privacy of a separate room , which could be personalised by her own possessions , was important to her mental well-being . |
| 18 | The careers of the bourgeois world were indeed open to talent , but the family with a modest amount of education , property and social connections among others of the middle rank undoubtedly started with a relatively enormous advantage ; not least the capacity to intermarry with others of the same social status , in the same line of business or with resources which could be combined with their own . |
| 19 | As far as the knowledge and business enterprise of the producers reach , they in each case choose those factors of production which are best for their purpose , the sum of the supply prices of those factors which are used is , as a rule , less than the sum of the supply prices of any other set of factors which could be substituted for them ; and whenever it appears to the producers that this is not the case , they will , as a rule , set to work to substitute the less expensive method . |
| 20 | To combat this recurrent worry , they had long since introduced random underpant inspections which could be sprung on us at the most absurd moment . |
| 21 | BM says that behaviour is influenced by two powerful forces , both of which could be modified by you in some situations . |
| 22 | She located most of the resources but checked with the librarian to see if there was anything " in the pipeline " which could be added to what she already had . |
| 23 | The quota , in short , forced some British filmmakers to be realistic about the economic constraints operating in British filmmaking , and to look to what could be achieved within them rather than simply hoping that film budgets could rise on some magic carpet to figures close to those of Hollywood pictures . |
| 24 | As the Minority Report put it : ‘ The national Authority dealing with the able-bodied requires … what we might almost term a Human Sorting House , where each man 's faculties would be tested to see what could be made of him ; and a series of Training Establishments , to one or other of which the heterogeneous residuum of Unemployed would be assigned . ’ |
| 25 | Minor revenue posts , and as in this case , even the location of rented office space , were one of the more effective methods of impressing the members of a town council with what could be done for them , or to them . |
| 26 | Tilda , an expert mudlark , retrieved most of the purple plastic , but the pieces were broken and it was hard to see what could be done with them . |
| 27 | We have looked at the different types of land and seen roughly what could be done with them . |
| 28 | Nigel Lawson showed what could be done with it . |