Example sentences of "that could be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a speech to the 1915 Congress , the president , Mrs Barton , pointed to the example that could be followed by guildswomen : |
| 2 | Other scientists were more concerned with physics that could be studied on earth . |
| 3 | Colonial administrators began to restrict the natives ' access to species that could be killed for food by establishing reserves where hunting was only permitted under licence . |
| 4 | Subject , however , to the limitations to which I have referred I do not see why any restriction should be placed on the type of order that could be made under section 6(2) . |
| 5 | Everything that could be made of iron was , from the churchyard fence and gates to the interior columns and arches , the window tracery and door frames , and even the pinnacles on the tower . |
| 6 | They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production . |
| 7 | Each sacrifice , upheld by God 's promise and power had real effect and potency , but this was not a power that could be manipulated by man . |
| 8 | The war , and the region 's complex geopolitical concerns , are also preventing naturalists from undertaking the most effective means of monitoring the Siberian crane - ringing the flock with miniature transmitters that could be tracked from space . |
| 9 | School subjects are all worthwhile but the time-table is filled and many of these subjects are pre-empting spaces that could be filled with subjects much more relevant to the modern world . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the fact that these bound states arose from the well-defined N = 8 theory should enable us to make a number of predictions that could be tested at energies that are accessible now or will be in the near future . |
| 12 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 13 | In the 1960s and subsequently the discovery of the need to study processes led to appreciation of the need for familiarity with subject matter from interdisciplinary origins and to acquire and develop techniques that could be employed for process investigations and particularly for empirical measurements . |
| 14 | We also welcome the provision in part III that removes the use of the private Bill procedure to obtain powers that could be granted by orders for harbours . |
| 15 | However , the energies necessary to test a GUT or a TOE are unimaginably greater than anything that could be achieved on earth . |
| 16 | I should like to speak longer , because the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) spoke about the losses that he envisages would be incurred by the development of the station at King 's Cross , and if I had the time I should love to expand on the economic benefits that could be achieved in employment terms , the environmental benefits that would accrue to the area and the safety benefits that would be brought about by the Fennell provisions in the Bill . |
| 17 | To Chapman 's horror , Arsenal were a goal down fifteen minutes from the interval , to deafening cheers from the home supporters that could be heard for miles around . |
| 18 | I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army . |
| 19 | Before the Second World War , there were , apart from those from the Royal Humane Society and Society for the Protection of Life from Fire , no appropriate awards that could be given to civilians who had performed outstanding or exceptional deeds of bravery ( the George Cross and George Medal were not instituted until World War II ) . |
| 20 | Avice Cam deserved the highest honour that could be given for service to others . |
| 21 | Albert Tarr , who was unmarried and lived with his widowed mother at the tiny Devon village of East Anstey , was subsequently posthumously awarded the Carnegie Bronze Medal — at that time before the introduction of the George Medal , one of the highest possible civilian awards that could be given for acts of heroism and bravery . |
| 22 | The highest award that could be given in peacetime at that time , the Albert Medal , was confined largely to members of the armed forces . |
| 23 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 24 | The social services would have had powers to protect not only the injured party ( even without evidence that could be proven in court ) , but also all the other children , probably by their removal from the home . |
| 25 | And if you do pages that could be done in metal , they are more convincing than pages that can not be done in metal . |
| 26 | For instance , it is not difficult to think of linguistic features that could be defined as disfluencies . |
| 27 | List the sorts of information about a planet that could be obtained by radar and which would be difficult to obtain by other means . |
| 28 | This new ‘ workflow ’ software opened up vast new possibilities for DIP solutions that could be justified on time savings and service improvements as well as space savings . |
| 29 | For example , it gave news of ships in peril that could be seen from Fanefjord but not from Elmelunde ; of fires raging in the forest near Magleby that could not be seen at Børre ; of women in labour , requiring the services of a midwife . |
| 30 | Do judges and lawyers recognize legal rights mainly in circumstances that could be explained on pragmatist grounds ? |