Example sentences of "this could be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be moved to Sunday if the Drama Department could come up with something more suitable . |
| 2 | As a supporter of balanced budgets , however , he insisted that this could be funded from defence cuts made possible by the " peace dividend " , rather than through deficits or higher taxes . |
| 3 | Furthermore , gradation could equally lead to heavier sentences than might otherwise have been given for conduct which comes within the higher categories , although this could be regulated by appeal courts and sentencing guidelines . |
| 4 | This could be merged with names and addresses from the database in Task 1 . |
| 5 | This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed . |
| 6 | ( It is suggested that this could be developed in association with COSLA ) . |
| 7 | This could be developed by reference to the following arguments : ( 1 ) History is a social necessity . |
| 8 | This could be precipitated by instillation of 210 ml of air into the stomach . |
| 9 | There are suggestions this could be achieved in Britain by joining fundholding surgeries . |
| 10 | The British public , after years of sacrifice , were less and less inclined to tolerate prolonged austerity ; and , though in other fields the Labour Government was extremely successful in diverting resources away from consumption and towards investment and exports ( at considerable cost to its own political popularity ) , there were limits to the extent that this could be achieved in electricity . |
| 11 | ( On Fig. 2 , this could be represented by evolution up to the optimum life history by a series of horizontal or vertical steps . ) |
| 12 | This could be represented by Figure 1 . |
| 13 | Superficially , this could be cited as evidence of progressive social change . |
| 14 | Perhaps this could be tackled by section : garlic for Cookery , cordite for Thrillers , baby lotion for Children 's , Musk Rose for Romance . |
| 15 | If they then still chose to seek engineering jobs , this could be seen as evidence of commitment . |
| 16 | This could be seen as evidence that there is a level of automatic syntactic processing which is not always used in sentence comprehension . |
| 17 | Although this could be seen as evidence that subjective risk was not present for this subject , it could equally be regarded as a self presentational bias on the part of the subject who may have felt that feeling risk would imply dangerous driving . |
| 18 | This could be seen as indoctrination and not education . |
| 19 | This could be seen in standards of literacy and taste . |
| 20 | This could be done through questions , by building up a diagram of some kind , by giving a synopsis with gaps in it , or simply by giving a resume in the learner 's native language . |
| 21 | But new barriers were built up at every step , so he continued to seek an opportunity to resign , if this could be done without disobedience to the will of God . |
| 22 | ACL would communicate the issuance of the DFR to ACL 's office at the consignee 's location ; this could be done in conjunction with the sending of an arrival notice and manifest , or separately . |
| 23 | This could be done by questions and answers such as , ‘ Did you intend ? ’ or ‘ Were you aware etc. ? ’ |
| 24 | Surely this could be done by computer . |
| 25 | This could be demonstrated for Lukács or indeed for Marx himself . |
| 26 | This could be expressed in terms of a formal grammar . |
| 27 | If BW approval can be arranged , I would be grateful if this could be communicated to David Oldham of the Green Belt Trust , so that he can arrange the funding . |
| 28 | This could be combined with enclosure , but was not necessarily identical with it . |
| 29 | Pupils using early photographs as one of their sources for instance , may want to put the invention of photography onto their time-line , and this could be linked with experiments and science work on the behaviour of light . |
| 30 | So far as digital penetration with one finger is concerned , if this is less serious than other types of penetration , this could be reflected in sentencing . |