Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 2 | The jokes could be played out in a fully contemporary setting and could often concern the adventures of very ordinary downtrodden men . |
| 3 | But the referendum plan could be swallowed up in a swamp of indifference — a Russian television opinion poll yesterday showed only 34 per cent of those questioned would take part . |
| 4 | One acoustic theory is immediately exploded : that a whisper on stage could be heard up in the back row ( Greek guides conveniently fail to take the wooden superstructure into account ) . |
| 5 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 6 | ( The printed sheets were ‘ signed ’ with a letter of the alphabet , so they could be gathered up in the right order — one of each , B , C , D , etc . |
| 7 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 8 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 9 | However , the Associated Press news agency reported on Feb. 8 that the package could be held up in the European Parliament , due to opposition from the socialist group because of concerns about Syria 's human rights record . |
| 10 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 11 | In a period of cultural stability , the infantile , irrational demands of the superego which conflicted with the mature superego could be worked out in the analytic process . |
| 12 | Exactly what extent they could be taken up in the period to ninety six , is not necessarily erm clear because we we do n't know exactly when those are going to be taken up . |
| 13 | What are the advantages of implementing the control unit of a processor by microprogramming , Wilkes ( 1951 ) introduced the concept as a means by which the design and implementation of a control unit could be carried out in a Systematic and logical manner ; this advantage is a Particularly valuable one today , when uniform electronic layouts are well suited to the technology of LSI . |
| 14 | The method , however , lacks flexibility , and for an apparatus this size it was essential to have an independent power source so that adjustments could be carried out in the event of failure . |
| 15 | This could be carried out in the school , the clinic or the child 's home . |
| 16 | Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests . |
| 17 | Below was a boot containing a folding camp bed of polished steel ‘ of commodious size with a tester-top and on castors ’ and so constructed that it ‘ could be folded up in a minute . ’ |
| 18 | The magistrates said the issue of compensation could be sorted out in the civil courts . |
| 19 | However , Keegan 's No 2 , Terry McDermott , hinted that the move could be sorted out in the next few days . |
| 20 | But the COS had refused to acknowledge the role of economic forces with respect to character , justifying J. A. Hobson 's jibe that their philosophy could be summed up in the phrase ‘ character is the condition of conditions ’ . |
| 21 | The way that we 've found it in this this year 's Liberal Democrat Conference was to actually put forward the suggestion that Regional Government could be brought in in a flexible sense . |
| 22 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 23 | Rural housing had been the first to receive attention because it could be regarded as the responsibility of each landowner ; but the housing in towns was literally nobody 's business and could pass unnoticed , just as factory hands could be laid off in a recession , as farming labourers with tied cottages could not . |
| 24 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 25 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |