Example sentences of "[det] [conj] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody then had the right to make erm protests against this and could be heard at Cambridge , protesting about fare increases . |
| 2 | They consulted a doctor who told them that there was very little that could be done for a rheumatic attack . |
| 3 | There was an obscure but real sense in which you attempted to portray yourself as fundamentally progressive , as achieving as much as could be achieved in the circumstances in terms of liberalising legislation . |
| 4 | This was far more than could be justified in the straitened circumstances of the time ( and indeed it would have produced a large margin of spare capacity on the actual early 1950s peak demand ) . |
| 5 | The DTI received some 60 applications , many more than could be supported within this pilot scheme . |
| 6 | It serves to emphasize that an STV constituency would include many distinct and disparate localities — more in Britain than in Ireland , and far more than could be covered by parties in the thorough Irish style . |
| 7 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
| 8 | Li Yuan studied them a moment , trying to get the key to their relationship — something more than could be gained from the summaries in the file — then returned to the desk and sat , leaving them standing . |
| 9 | The use of simulation allows the observation of many possible stream patterns , far more than could be observed in the real world . |
| 10 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 11 | ‘ Which it would seem is more than could be said for your father 's . ’ |
| 12 | Ultimately the demand for nutrients became more than could be supplied by the Sun . |
| 13 | Any enhancement of HLCA payments ( Articles 13–15 ) ‘ to improve or maintain the natural landscape ’ should be reimbursed by EEC funds and should be linked to conservative needs , e. g. agreed stocking levels below those that could be supported for purely agricultural objectives . |
| 14 | A government can influence private company plans in a variety of ways , and thus achieve objectives which are essentially the same as those that could be reached by ownership . |
| 15 | Further expansion was carried out on the same basis , progressively moving through the model until more specific activities started to emerge , such as those that could be associated with component 8.7 , ie reduce costs : |
| 16 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 17 | A mitochondrial mutant strain of D.subobscura has two mitochondrial genome populations ( heteroplasmy ) : the first ( 20–30% of the population , 15.9 kb ) is the same as could be found in the wild type ; the second ( 70–80% of the population , 11 kb ) has lost by deletion several genes coding for complex I and III subunits , and four tRNAs . |