Example sentences of "[noun] that could [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He avoided travelling , and if he had to fly , he went only on charter flights , for fear that on a scheduled airline his name would show up on computers that could be tapped by Iran Air officials . |
| 32 | Most information about terms and their relationships that could be of assistance to the user of the index will be transferred from the list to the index or catalogue itself . |
| 33 | Tel. 071–272 1266 ) may be able to arrange for someone to conduct a non-religious ceremony , or can send a form of words that could be used ( leaflets are available from these organisations on receipt of an sae ) . |
| 34 | The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people . |
| 35 | Most of the wordings initially used for trusts in Roman law are words that could be described as precatory . |
| 36 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 37 | The brief period of time in which the words were presented to the subject in our experiment , however , limited the kinds of words that could be used as stimuli . |
| 38 | In the dialect-divergent community we found this problematic , and we located only two vowel variables that could be reliably quantified in this way . |
| 39 | There was a plentiful supply of cheap labour that could be easily employed in tiny sweatshops . |
| 40 | Does my hon. Friend agree that such an arrangement would not only broaden the health services already made available to patients but achieve financial savings that could be ploughed back into the provision of other services ? |
| 41 | She looked at the healthy gloss of black hair springing from a widow 's peak , the thickly lashed eyes under winged brows , the mouth that could be austere and cruel but was now warm and sensuous , and said thickly , ‘ Perhaps we could go into the garden ? ’ |
| 42 | They rode a wave for a while , thinking they saw a pool of talent that could be exploited and a cultural scene rich in potential stories which , together with the relative cheapness of British film production , would be enough to guarantee success . |
| 43 | I do n't want to over-hype it , but it would be equally wrong to underestimate what Tencel might be , which is the beginning of a new industry that could be both material to Courtaulds and change the world fibre industry completely . |
| 44 | But his claim to be able to represent the three major philosophical schools of the Vedānta does not prevent him from regarding Truth ( Satya ) as the most correct and most fully significant term that could be used for God . |
| 45 | In fact , it 's a term that could be aptly used to describe that whole flowery genre of catch-all fiddle-and-flute pop that has sprouted up in this country since Mike Scott first became an executive member of An Bord lascaigh Mhara . |
| 46 | And Skillbase markets their skills to other organisations as well , calling it ‘ executive leasing ’ ( or for highest positions ‘ interim management ’ — perhaps a term that could be applied to Sir Len Peach 's stint at the NHS ) . |
| 47 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 48 | The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft . |
| 49 | Are we talking about a figure that could be approaching that sort of level , or substantially lower ? |
| 50 | Erm we asked the question about the aircraft 's reduced operational capabilities as far as Britain is concerned , we were told that there was no reduction , erm there was no percentage figure that could be produced but w now what about the other countries , I mean , which countries are asking for what to be omitted and by how much is the percentage , in percentage terms er is the performance of the aircraft reduced in those cases and further on from that , picking up something that that Wing Com er Group Captain Granville White has just mentioned which i is the question of sales . |
| 51 | Other sorts of beans had to be shelled like peas , from pods that could be whitish-yellow , or cream speckled with pink . |
| 52 | A caring parent would pay a penny or tuppence for some old coat or skirt that could be cut up to meet the needs of some child . |
| 53 | Leicester continue to blow hot and cold , although one of the reasons they looked a little below par in their first game was because they were playing a Gloucester side that could be a dark horse for the title . |
| 54 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 55 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
| 56 | I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army . |
| 57 | As commander-in-chief — he would not co-operate with Spanish generals on any other terms — Wellington was loth to regard native troops as an instrument that could be used with safety in battle . |
| 58 | The use of investment tax credits , so that firms can offset some of the cost of capital equipment against corporation tax liability , is one instrument that could be assigned to this target . |
| 59 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |
| 60 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |