Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was defeated in the General Election of June 1970 before further progress could be made on proposals which would have added another 3.3 million people to those already to be covered by two-tier local government . |
| 2 | The problem of conserving the noble land fund was the central preoccupation of a high-powered ministerial conference which Nicholas set up in 1897 to consider what further aid could be given to the nobility . |
| 3 | The birth of the Prince Imperial had been so difficult — the Empress had been in labour for 18 hours — that no further child could be hoped for . |
| 4 | Better use could be made of radio and newspapers . |
| 5 | It is one thing to determine that better use could be made of staff , it is another to change the existing situation . |
| 6 | As yet no better solution could be found to the problem that there were more ‘ workers ’ than work available . |
| 7 | However , tests showed that a faster schedule could be operated with a train of Gresley 's comfortable coaches seating double the number of passengers and hauled by one of his steam ‘ Pacific ’ type locomotives . |
| 8 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 9 | On the one hand , if the landlord has redevelopment plans or if a higher rent could be achieved on a reletting of a greater part of the building , it will be in the landlord 's interest to ensure that all tenancies are expressed to expire on the same date . |
| 10 | It was here that the resolution was reached ‘ that no further institutions of higher education could be wrested from local authority control ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | From the perspective of the NHS , considerable health gains and reductions in expenditure over the longer term could be achieved by expanding health promotion work with older people , a previously neglected group . |
| 13 | Debt due for repayment within two years could be paid within five years , and debt due to be repaid over a longer period could be paid within eight years . |
| 14 | No stronger message could be delivered to Labour headquarters of the need to do so than a Conservative victory on Thursday . |
| 15 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 16 | A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect . |
| 17 | In 1969 the calendar was revised so that greater emphasis could be given to the major festivals of the Christian year . |
| 18 | Improved polished stone implements , such as axes , meant that a greater impact could be made on the naturally forested wildwood landscape . |
| 19 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |
| 20 | At the same time , progress towards greater equality could be hampered by schools necessarily giving higher priority towards the development of the curriculum in the light of the National Curriculum changes in general . |
| 21 | The assumption of the Government in the 1980s was that the trend towards earlier retirement could be managed without new legislation to protect older workers from discrimination in the workplace . |