Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from a concerted effort by its backers , which could be shaped at the end of year meeting , Goldstein says only catalytic events will otherwise drive the Architecture-Neutral Format to market . |
| 2 | Apart from a concerted effort by its backers , which could be shaped at the end of year meet , Goldstein says only catalytic events will otherwise drive ANDF to market . |
| 3 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 4 | Similarly , a lower inflation rate could be achieved at the cost of an increase in the unemployment percentage . |
| 5 | A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect . |
| 6 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 7 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 8 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 9 | Replacing ‘ bourgeois ’ relationships with new revolutionary patterns of consciousness meant virtually every aspect of existing life — sexual orientation and partners , domestic arrangements , employment — could be challenged at the whim of a therapist , with accommodation a condition of remaining in therapy . |
| 10 | We excluded 12 patients because no definite diagnosis of ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease could be made at the time of testing . |
| 11 | Here each unit would be taught separately from the others although links could be made at the end of the unit . |
| 12 | The assumption was that , with sufficient care , pupils could be selected at the age of eleven on the basis of a prediction of their success in pursuing an academic education . |
| 13 | If he loses his job Mark could be taxed at the US rate of 33 per cent or Britain 's 40 per cent . |
| 14 | The ‘ poverty lobby ’ sought to persuade the government that family allowances could be increased at the expense of child tax allowances . |
| 15 | Heavy freight 2-8-0- No. 2857 , on loan from the Severn Valley Railway , hauled hourly services between Toddington and Gretton starting at 11am while 50 year old Bagnall 0–6–0 No. 2566 ‘ Byfield No. 2 ’ could be seen at the head of a goods train shunting from the yard to the bay siding at Toddington . |
| 16 | A budget of £7.17.10 in 1910 meant that only twenty-five babies per week could be seen at the clinic ; but the work continued , and expanded . |
| 17 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 18 | It could be heard at the press of a button . |
| 19 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 20 | It could be resold at the market price less 10% selling expenses , or retained for use later in another new product to be manufactured by the company , by which time it is expected that the market price will have fallen by about 25% . |
| 21 | A windfall or an inheritance is not out of the question , and we could be looking at the end of March , May or October-November for a material or financial boost . |
| 22 | A blacksmith whose work involved much sharpening of jumpers ( drill irons ) , could be paid at the rate of , say , so much per 20 dozen — otherwise at so much per day . |
| 23 | ( As drawn , the peak is interior to the interval [ O , PY i ] , but it could be located at the endpoint . ) |
| 24 | In theory , any matter which is relevant to whether the applicant should be awarded a remedy at the hearing stage is also relevant to the decision at the hearing stage of whether the application should be allowed to proceed ; in other words , leave to apply for judicial review can be refused on any ground on which a remedy could be refused at the hearing stage . |
| 25 | It never hurt to know in advance what well-provisioned castles could be put at the King 's disposal at short notice . |
| 26 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 27 | The Stroh Violin was commonly employed ; this was a violin fitted with a soundbox and horn so the upper harmonics of violin tone could be directed at the recording machine . |
| 28 | The same criticism though could be directed at the presumptions approach . |
| 29 | Conversely , the perception of replacement presupposes that no such identity could be established at the correspondence stage . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , they could be established at the discretion of the LGB when ‘ distress ’ was deemed to be suitably acute . |