Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the drive to impose an appearance of order on the world , nineteenth-century science created a vast body of numerical information all carefully arranged so that geographical variations could be ascertained at a glance . |
| 2 | This version of a marketable discharge licence process employs a national airshed , but it could be applied at a state or local level and for other pollutants in the future . |
| 3 | Products were shown individually and in room settings with the complete new collection showcased on the right-hand pages so that all the designs and colours could be seen at a glance . |
| 4 | Cray Research Inc is expected to ship its first massively parallel processor , due in the second half of 1993 , in configurations with up to 1,024 Alpha processing nodes , hears Electronic News : indeed ‘ several thousand ’ processors could be supported at a customer 's request . |
| 5 | We have already mentioned that woodland could be located at a distance from the settlement , as only infrequent visits needed to be made . |
| 6 | Another complaint was the waste of police time in court , but by a relatively straightforward change in the law — to allow certain evidence to be produced by sworn statement without the witness having to appear personally — it could be eliminated at a stroke . |
| 7 | The computer could be used to rescale the image pixel values so that the lowest value in the image ( 25 ) was interpolated onto the lowest value that the display system could accommodate ( 0 ) while the highest value in the raw image ( 90 ) was mapped to the maximum value that could be held at a pixel point in the image memory bank ( 255 ) . |
| 8 | The treaty could be signed at a UN conference on the environment and development in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , in 1992 . |
| 9 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |