Example sentences of "[to-vb] what could be " in BNC.
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| 1 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 2 | I am hoping , with all my artistic heart , that this report turns out to be a myth , as I have tested a whole range of media including oils , only to discover what could be considered a negative quality in me : I am too damned impatient to allow the oils to dry before continuing with the painting ! |
| 3 | In 1834 Little went to study with Johannes Müller at the University of Berlin in order to discover what could be done to correct his deformity , which English surgeons refused to treat , leaving it to the bone-setters . |
| 4 | To hide what could be an eyesore , Ken has built a housing around the water butt and bath that has echoes of the tea house without being obviously Japanese . |
| 5 | With the tightening of world oil demand which will come in the 1990s and the beginnings of a ‘ catching-up ’ programme of crude price increases , it is to be hoped that measures will be taken in good time to counteract what could be a politically unacceptable and potentially debilitating economic dependence on imported energy , for the US and for the rest of the Western world . |
| 6 | Perhaps the only creature to rouse what could be construed as a maternal sense in my heart had been the Egyptian cat , and Nour had killed it . |
| 7 | Karen McDonald , BML 's NBS co-ordinator , said a NBS committee meeting would be held on 24th May to discuss what could be done to revitalise the sale . |
| 8 | In lumpy wind-against-tide conditions off Yarmouth , Rulor 11 had to be steered through the confusion to avoid what could be described as that familiar IOR slam . |
| 9 | With the white paper scheduled for this week , Mr Major is anxious to avoid what could be seen as another Government muddle and a damaging backlash from his own MPs . |
| 10 | For example , Williams calculated the cost per QALY of a range of health care interventions and divided them into ‘ strong candidates for expansion ’ and ‘ less strong candidates for expansion ’ 1 to illustrate what could be achieved by using available data and to argue for further refinements . |
| 11 | Higher management qualification ( members would need to assess the technical content of such courses to determine what could be considered relevant CPE ) |
| 12 | Although the image of the Trinity is distorted , its powers are not destroyed and this is the activity of God in the soul — the ability to understand what could be , and to desire it : But it is a question of " so near and yet so far " as Hilton adds that man is not near Christ or in him until he has actually found him . |
| 13 | Moreover , there seems to be an element of moral righteousness in Bukharin 's attitude , in so far as he sought to clothe what could be considered necessary violence with an aura of positive good , thereby turning necessity into a virtue . |
| 14 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 15 | In their understandable anxiety to save what could be saved of Greek life by cooperating with the Romans , Polybius and , we must add , Posidonius , had left unexplored the most solid substructures of the Roman-Italian complex . |
| 16 | A good example is the $600 million joint venture with Occidental Petroleum to develop what could be the world 's largest open-cast coal mine . |
| 17 | And he manages to present what could be very dry stuff with the flair of a good detective writer , setting up expectations whose fulfilment contains an element of surprise , while saving up a few clinching strokes for the end . |
| 18 | Taken together , these observations have led us to investigate what could be the effect of homologous telomeric sequences on P. anserina linear vectors . |
| 19 | ‘ To my surprise , several ICI officers came to our house to investigate what could be the cause of the smell . |
| 20 | As the Minority Report put it : ‘ The national Authority dealing with the able-bodied requires … what we might almost term a Human Sorting House , where each man 's faculties would be tested to see what could be made of him ; and a series of Training Establishments , to one or other of which the heterogeneous residuum of Unemployed would be assigned . ’ |
| 21 | They jumped down and ran to see what could be the matter with him . |
| 22 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 23 | Tilda , an expert mudlark , retrieved most of the purple plastic , but the pieces were broken and it was hard to see what could be done with them . |
| 24 | Former Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley went back to his old department today to see what could be done to help crisis-hit Gloucestershire County Council . |
| 25 | Mr Kinnock came to Gloucestershire to see what could be the last housing development built by the Forest of Dean District Council . |
| 26 | He would try to arrange a site meeting with the police to see what could be done to improve safety not only for other motorists but for pedestrians . |
| 27 | Daily treatment sessions started yesterday at Ibrox to see what could be done about clearing a casualty list of Goram , Gough , Robertson , Steven , Stevens and Huistra . |
| 28 | And Nicholson 's have not been slow to realise the commercial potential of this classic heritage ; Langford & Williams ' design brief from them was to restore what could be restored and to reinstate in sympathy with the building where necessary . |
| 29 | No one imagined many customers would actually copy this precisely , but it was an inspiration , or guide , to show what could be done . |