Example sentences of "[noun pl] could be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | These guidelines could be influenced by certain religious ideas towards abortion . |
| 2 | A resulting stream of electric pulses could be sent by wire to the receiving device where a second synchronised pendulum swept across chemically-treated paper , leaving a dark mark wherever a pulse occurred . |
| 3 | As he points out , a large part of the former Soviet Union 's food shortages could be eased by better packaging of agricultural products . |
| 4 | Yes , she agreed with Louise , quarrels could be mended by talking . |
| 5 | She said she would not blame teachers for concluding that their profession was being utterly deprofessionalised after Mr Lang 's suggestion that schools could be run by parents and local busy-bodies . |
| 6 | ‘ The risk of serious injury , particularly to the arm , while playing on bouncy castles could be reduced by providing a cushioned landing around the open side of the castle . ’ |
| 7 | Attempts to cheat the system , however , by discharging a patient briefly every three months could be thwarted by insisting that the period of discharge must last at least two weeks before the admission could be considered separate . |
| 8 | Sources and applications of funds could be represented by decreases and increases in reservoir volume , respectively . |
| 9 | The funds could be provided by you as a shareholder either as a loan or as further share capital . |
| 10 | Premiums could be cut by a fifth if consultants passed on savings they have made with the increase of private work , said the Norwich Union . |
| 11 | Bowls and drinking vessels could be raised by rotating and hammering gold discs . |
| 12 | It was Field in 1977 who had suggested that the glucose/sugar component of oral rehydration solutions could be replaced by long chain polymers of glucose , ie. starch . |
| 13 | It was much harder to show that the economy of large estates was superior to that of medium or even small units , especially when most of the labour demands of such units could be met by the virtually unpaid labour of large peasant families . |
| 14 | It implied that there would be ways of modifying it , just as peripheral transmission at ganglia could be blocked by methonium compounds and transmission at certain nerve endings by beta-blockers ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 15 | However , even in the present stage of battery technology and without recourse to any of the many new battery types under test at present it is estimated that due to the preponderance of short trips ( this is in an industrialised country equivalent in size to the UK ) 70% of present fuel consumption in cars could be substituted by use of battery vehicles . |
| 16 | Parliament never intended that the limit on the amount of compensation payable to individual depositors could be side-stepped by dispositions made after formal steps had been taken to initiate the winding up process . |
| 17 | The notion that clerical wealth was at the disposal of the realm when need arose was echoed and supported by some other developments of the reign : the practice whereby donations of land to the church first required royal licence ( and at a price ) ; the growing , though still limited , legal procedure and principle whereby endowments whose purposes were neglected by the receiving clergy could be recovered by the donor ; the practice of founders and patrons ‘ resuming ’ possession of the lands of religious houses embarrassed by debts ( not least debts resulting from taxation ) until they could again operate effectively ; the seizure of alien priories ; and lastly , the widening definition of temporalities at the expense of spiritualities . |
| 18 | Other manual methods of signalling included flags , arc lights operated by gas , and heliographs whose flashing signals could be read by telescope . |
| 19 | As for how many personal computers could be supported by a local network-connected PS/2 , the company admits that it simply wo n't know until the code is finished , but the implication is that it will be many more than 40 , and that the local network might run out of capacity before the server will . |
| 20 | Again , the Pentagon 's fears that the computers could be used by the military defeated the Commerce Department , which sees the sale of advanced technology as crucial to improved Sino-American relations . |
| 21 | Assuming that the reforms were approved by the People 's Assembly — scheduled to debate them in early 1991 — opposition parties could be legalized by the end of March . |
| 22 | Under English law , ordinary passers-by could be required by a constable to come to his assistance in making an arrest , failure to do so being a punishable offence . |
| 23 | ‘ Amnesiacs could be covered by the Act . |
| 24 | Under the Covenant of the League , disputes between nations could be settled by discussion and arbitration . |
| 25 | Candidates could be nominated by political parties , party coalitions , or groups of 500 voters . |
| 26 | Such spiral waves could be induced by injecting the non-metabolizable analogue InsPS 3 ( ref. 70 ) , whereas the injection of calcium had no effect even though it caused a localized elevation of calcium . |
| 27 | Our experiments confirm Darwin 's suggestion that the evolution of ornaments of monogamous sexually monomorphic animals could be driven by mutual sexual selection . |
| 28 | The Agriculture and Food Research Council reckon cereal yields could be increased by another 25 per cent this century , freeing even more land . |
| 29 | While the development of some large oilfields could be helped by the changes , smaller finds could be hit by the cost of drilling rising fourfold through the loss of tax relief . |
| 30 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |