Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) . |
| 2 | Chain , which was introduced in 1811 , could be stowed in a small damp locker and so it can almost be said that chain cleared the space needed below for engines and coal bunkers . |
| 3 | The panel accepted the social work argument that if there was a high degree of Social Work input to the family home , and that if Jim could be placed in a new school for his remaining few months of statutory attendance , then this might be the most suitable response . |
| 4 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 5 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 6 | A body section could be made in a standard four-ply small pattern stitch , possibly a tiny tuck pattern , cast off straight at the underarms , with a woven pattern used for the yoke and sleeves . |
| 7 | Editor , — Though we agree with Fritz H Schröder that some of the intriguing scientific questions about the natural course of prostatic cancer could be answered in a randomised controlled trial of screening , we are concerned that the possible adverse effects of screening may be arguments against such an exercise . |
| 8 | It could be cycled in a prolonged dry spell but most of the year it was waterlogged , its condition made worse by the horses from the riding school attached to the farm at the bottom end . |
| 9 | Knowledge about the harmful consequences of smoking could be maintained in a low key manner through the school curriculum . |
| 10 | The curds could be pulled away from the edge of the vat , in the same way as a cooked Victoria sandwich can be lightly pulled away from the edge of a cake tin , and the curd could be cut in a straight line with a finger . |
| 11 | Here , it is natural to think in terms of the institutionalization of a disposition which could be displayed in a simpler form pre-culturally . |
| 12 | The figures could be displayed in a specified graphical format OR a separate print-out made for each representative including only relevant cells . |
| 13 | Psychoanalysis 's relationship to psychology could be seen in a similar way . |
| 14 | But , like the National Health Service , education could be seen in a different light . |
| 15 | Some months ago I suggested that this could be done in a new version of Question Time . |
| 16 | There must be many , many able Russians who take the same line as the only way forward could be incorporated in a democratic Russia and very , very substantially contribute to its recovery . |
| 17 | It was Roger Fry 's contention that an object , say a bunch of carrots on a market stall , could be viewed in a practical way as something to eat for supper , or aesthetically . |
| 18 | We should therefore be suspicious of any expository textbook which presents the criminal law as if it could be stated in a finite number of propositions from which all solutions could ultimately be derived without further choices at the point of application . |
| 19 | I have always felt that most of the practical differences between the handling of tailwheel aircraft and those with their third wheel at the wrong end could be covered in a single comprehensive magazine article ( like mine in March Pilot ) , but after reading The Compleat Taildragger Pilot I concede that , if you want to cover all the relevant theory too , something this size is required . |
| 20 | But definitely post-Christian because I do not believe that there could be this uniqueness : that God could be related in a particular way to a particular age or to one particular person Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | In a letter to the London Evening News of the late 1920s , Hitchcock expresses his own sense of how Hollywood models could be redeployed in a British context : |
| 22 | If the weather holds out work could be completed in a short time . |
| 23 | The human genome project , which aims to identify the make-up of all human genes , could be completed in a purpose-built US laboratory by the middle of next year , according to a leading participant in the work . |
| 24 | The may maybe I just comment on that that last that last point , which as I understand it it the the justification for a new settlement is brought about solely by increasing the requirement for Greater York to twelve thousand seven hundred , going through those figures there seems to me , for instance , for both Ryedale and Selby to be more provision than could be met in a single settlement , I I think the the figures put forward by Barton Willmore are more than can be met in existing allocations and a single new settlement of a reasonable size . |
| 25 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 26 | By way of a quite proper analogy , suppose there were a certain amazing truth , that all and only the members of one species of tree , say Turner 's Oak , could be described in a given language by sentences of a certain deep structure , or simply a rare surface-grammatical sequence : indefinite article , a curious gerund , preposition of a certain sort , and so on . |
| 27 | General Secretaries would then be obliged to satisfy the membership and could be put in a classic squeeze when they were approached at top level , even if supporting NoS was against their better judgement . |
| 28 | However , as feminists have consistently argued , potentially housework could be organised in a different way . |
| 29 | Alternatively , the proposition could be researched in a non-experimental way . |
| 30 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |