Example sentences of "that [noun] could be [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ .
2 The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time .
3 It intervened to regulate trade ; in 1651 the republican Parliament passed a Navigation Act which set out to protect the English shipping trade by laying down that imports could be taken to the ports of England or of English colonies only by English ships or by those of the country that produced the goods .
4 The speed of the system was an important consideration as was the fact that Signet could be adapted to the firm 's precise needs .
5 A spokesman said yesterday this was the earliest that details could be given to its workforce .
6 Darwin 's theory emphasized the interaction between organisms and their environment and made it clear that species could be driven to extinction when the conditions to which they were exposed changed too rapidly for them to cope .
7 Many fear that France could be relegated to a secondary role .
8 It is unlikely , however , that fees could be paid to speakers .
9 The case was adjourned to a date to be fixed so that Bourgois could be remanded to hospital to be further assessed .
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