Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 2 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 3 | For not only was the papacy 's practical influence severely circumscribed by schism , and the development of its governmental powers halted , but no theory of papal power could be developed with two contenders for St Peter 's chair . |
| 4 | One might have anticipated an exposition on how this new syntax differed from that of the preceding age and how it could be developed for stylistic purposes . |
| 5 | Councillors on Thursday decided that the 12-acre Cattle Market at Bury could be developed in small-scale phases . |
| 6 | For the import of the " new " sense of design which I have hypothesised could be developed from these sketches is its interaction with social forces — literally its forming of them . |
| 7 | Thus these case roles could be filled with nonsensical objects such as ’ sincerity ’ or ’ steam ’ ; i.e. , one could say ’ steam collided with sincerity ’ . |
| 8 | Specialist local authority homes for dementia , to which new residents could be admitted , or to which residents of " ordinary " homes could be transferred at later stages , are a possibility , but are against strongly held principles of integration and continuity of care . |
| 9 | How many beads could be threaded in 2 minutes would be measured . |
| 10 | The seasonality of advertising is the first consideration , either because the budget is too small to spread over a full year , or because even a very large budget could be weighted towards certain times of year . |
| 11 | Where possible , material which could be salvaged from old buildings or walls was recycled into the new fortifications , while in many places no indemnity was paid to those who were forced ‘ pro bono publico ’ to surrender property on which walls might be built or to provide the open ground , outside a wall , vital for effective defence . |
| 12 | From their social position , the conditions of the working class could be conceived in absolute terms and compared with an abstract model of ordered familial life . |
| 13 | The manufacturer estimates that break-even point could be achieved with 14 meals per day . |
| 14 | Now in a language of potentially unlimited generative capacity , I fail to see how this could be achieved for all expressions across all patterns of combination in the first way described above . |
| 15 | Name had reached a ceiling on what could be achieved under present arrangements ; |
| 16 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 17 | This could be achieved through genetic modifications of crops , increased use of biological controls , such as natural predators , and a planned approach to crop rotation . |
| 18 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |
| 19 | The National Coal Board wanted to close some uneconomic pits and their advice was that this could be achieved by local talks . |
| 20 | A decrease of PAI could be achieved within 2 days by transperitoneal dialysis . |
| 21 | Disbelief that closures could be achieved within these constraints was never to be wholly suspended and in important ways served to hamper the subsequent implementation process . |
| 22 | Before percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology was attempted many groups had shown that a tissue diagnosis could be achieved in some patients with obstructive jaundice caused by malignancy by detecting neoplastic cells in duodenal aspiration . |
| 23 | This could be achieved in three years , using intensive cultivation . |
| 24 | In addition , parents could be asked for voluntary contributions towards non-chargeable activities and the proceeds could be used to subsidise activities for children from poor families . |
| 25 | It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape . |
| 26 | Up to £700 could be invested in these certificates . |
| 27 | Under the agreement , debt could be converted into five varieties of concessionary bonds , each requiring the banks to offer discounts of 35 per cent on the face value of debt owed to them , in return for higher interest rates on the remainder . |
| 28 | These cots were specially made , arranged in tiers of three , and could be converted into comfortable couches for sitting up cases . |
| 29 | Given a slight negative movement of base level , underwater sandbanks may appear above high tide level and could be converted into offshore bars by wave action . |
| 30 | in return for the salon 's fee , clients discovered that they could be entertained by nude hostesses whose sole task was to read them pornographic or erotic literature . |