Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triticale breeders were keen to make the plant insensitive to day length so that it could be grown successfully at the Equator as well as in temperate regions . |
| 2 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 3 | In order that the correct quantity of numbered questionnaires could be despatched close to the course end date , organisers were asked to advise [ MS on the number of SERC supported students still on the course , and the number of non-SERC " home " students completing in 1984 . |
| 4 | I would be grateful if the cheque could be despatched along with the attached document to reach the creditor by 14 July . |
| 5 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 6 | These conflicts , he contended , although highlighted in the differences between the Western Marxism of Lukács and the orthodoxy of Marxist-Leninism , could be traced back to the work of Marx himself . |
| 7 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 8 | On that occasion three miles of slums were levelled as a pathway along which the stranded plane could be dragged back to the International Airport runway . |
| 9 | If , however , you feel unable to do this , it would still help us if the questionnaire could be filled in for the largest course , and some indication be given of provision in other courses . |
| 10 | The controversy hinged around whether Convocation could be summoned only by the King or had to be convened as of right when Parliament sat , and thus raised questions concerning the autonomy of the Church and the extent of the Crown 's ecclesiastical prerogatives . |
| 11 | The publication of the General Theory before the war was part of Keynes 's campaign to persuade his fellow economists that his proposition — that the trade cycle could be ironed out by the government adjusting the volume of demand in the economy — was correct . |
| 12 | While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises . |
| 13 | No words could be clawed out of the air to calm him . |
| 14 | Although the advance tax would be payable on the special dividends , it could be clawed back under the Chancellor 's proposed scheme . |
| 15 | It could be chopped out of the calendar today ( Thursday ) by the FISA World Council meeting which goes ahead in Paris this afternoon . |
| 16 | The NMR solution structure for domain 1 ( ref.16 ) could be placed immediately in the electron density to give a very good fit . |
| 17 | Such an ambitious programme , which could have at least some negative consequences in the member states , could be achieved only under the supervision of a supranational authority with the necessary powers to determine what the policies of the member states ought to be . |
| 18 | The lack of an overall majority in the 252-member House of Councillors ( the upper chamber ) for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , however , meant that the bill 's approval could be achieved only with the co-operation of some of the opposition parties . |
| 19 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 20 | As has been noted earlier , TANU 's cadres felt that nation-building could be achieved only through the control of the centre — a view which extended itself to the press . |
| 21 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 22 | Peace and security , they argued , could be achieved only by the creation of some effective international authority able to override the selfish or aggressive impulses of any individual ruler and to persuade him , if necessary by force , to respect the rights of his neighbours . |
| 23 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 24 | This is clearly wider than the circumstances outlined by Lord Denning in Ghani where the seizure of the evidence which was totally unconnected with the investigation could be justified partly by the seriousness of the offence in question . |
| 25 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 26 | Neither of these could be assumed merely from the conclusion of the treaty . |
| 27 | But Malebranche rejected various parts of Descartes 's proof , concluding that theoretically the material world was no more than a possibility , and could be accepted only on the basis of faith . |
| 28 | but her statement could be applied simply to the love she feels for Paris , which will both morally and physically ‘ undo ’ Trojan society . |
| 29 | Parents could be involved sooner in the childrens ' educations . |
| 30 | Once typed on to special paper , the copy could be pasted on to the boards and , with no need for hot metal , or skilled printers , was camera-ready . |