Example sentences of "this [noun] could [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this support could be gained from voluntary befriending schemes , single parent advice groups and possibly the kinds of ‘ divorce workshops ’ that have gained a degree of popularity in American mental health centres . |
| 2 | In addition this ban could be applied to all political parties in a locality for up to three months . |
| 3 | There is a real possibility that this payment could be limited in future or even means-tested . |
| 4 | If coherence of this kind could be brought to the conduct of government policy , the prospects for the economy remain far from forlorn . |
| 5 | Although this difficulty could be resolved by adopting some kind of stratified sampling procedure ( Trudgill , for example , sampled four electoral wards of which the social characteristics were known ) , a more general question emerges of whether it is always reasonable to take the population of an urban area as a sampling universe , when in fact a high proportion of the higher-status people who work in that city actually reside in neighbouring towns . |
| 6 | Perhaps a future valid contribution to this field could be made by a combination of experimental simulation of mechanical and chemical compaction in conjunction with the use of computer imagery in volume reconstruction ; at present we only know compaction is extremely effective at reducing both absolute volume and porosity in many sediments . |
| 7 | Some of this teaching could be done in classes — the routine language work , for example . |
| 8 | This case could be regarded as an example of the first presumption applying and neither of the exceptions being relevant . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , it would not be an easy matter to construct a home-made optical system using digital signals so that this technique could be compared with the analogue one . |
| 10 | Using a small board to wire the wicket l.e.d.s This board could be made from stripboard . |
| 11 | This fight could be followed by another between rival claimants to the throne . |
| 12 | But this shirt could be worn with the skirt , could n't it ? |
| 13 | This sentence could be regarded as an elliptical version of the deductive explanation given in ( 27 ) . |
| 14 | This provision could be written into the marriage contract . |
| 15 | This description could be described in terms of Freud 's dreamwork as a sort of cortical rearguard action in the face of incoherent but highly active discharges from the hindbrain . |
| 16 | This study could be seen as a pilot study that gives an intimation that if one has the right methodology the data which is yielded can be richer than that created from other methods . |
| 17 | Board secretary John Morris said : ‘ The Board 's main consideration was whether the title should remain on ice or whether this contest could be accepted for that championship . |
| 18 | A proposal to this effect could be made from within the Congress itself or by a two-thirds majority of the USSR Supreme Soviet , but subject to findings by the USSR Committee for the Supervision of the Constitution . |
| 19 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 20 | It is a testimony to the magnificent holdings of the Centre 's Alexander Baykov Library , that much of this research could be done without setting foot outside the University Campus ( or , indeed , outside the Ashley Building ) . |
| 21 | This analogy could be extended to the source and application of funds statement . |
| 22 | This reasoning could be applied to claims by or against the United States with respect to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea . |
| 23 | the full extent of uses of potassium hydroxide , which is currently used to produce ‘ Victrex ’ thermoplastics , have not been fully developed ; This chemical could be used as the starting material for the development of a range of potassium salts , Hunt believes . |
| 24 | It was even more difficult to ask serious questions about the system for radiographing the integrity of welds , which the engineers were keen to explain , when what really mattered was whether this monster could be stopped from crossing the Channel . |
| 25 | This result could be achieved through the application of similar reasoning to that adopted by the Privy council in NZ Shipping Co Ltd v AM Satterthwaite Co Ltd [ 1975 ] AC 154 . |
| 26 | This result could be explained by the absence of a fall in blood pressure between as well as within groups . |
| 27 | The success of this liaison could be seen through the arranging of seventeen day schools and six residential WETUC weekend schools . |
| 28 | This exercise could be used in conjunction with image sequencing exercises we might do in Media Studies . |
| 29 | This question could be answered by a economic evaluation of the prophylactic use of misoprostol . |
| 30 | Like the project on information technology , this work could be administered by small directorates within the Department of Industry . |