Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [be] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 2 | The horse could be left at the local inn and its owner would soon come looking for it . |
| 3 | It was found that an all-British car could be built at approximately half the cost of the £300,000 for an imported model . |
| 4 | With great rapidity tea replaced coffee as the major plantation crop , and soon its acreage surpassed that of coffee at its height , for tea could be grown at more varied elevations than coffee . |
| 5 | Ella he had dismissed , as pleasure could be recalled at any time , while the business in hand was urgent . |
| 6 | The future or rather fate of Gloucester rugby club could be decided at Bristol tomorrow … there are two league games to go and the cherry and whites need to win one of them to escape relegation |
| 7 | In theory , any matter which is relevant to whether the applicant should be awarded a remedy at the hearing stage is also relevant to the decision at the hearing stage of whether the application should be allowed to proceed ; in other words , leave to apply for judicial review can be refused on any ground on which a remedy could be refused at the hearing stage . |
| 8 | The supply deal could be terminated at three months ' notice . |
| 9 | In the course of an acrid , 30-minute press conference , called at midday and starting at 3.42 , both men implied that the deal could be resurrected at some time later : ‘ I might consider selling my majority shareholding in the future , ’ said Edwards , ‘ but certainly not this season . ’ |
| 10 | Bringing a force north-west from the French colony on the St. Lawrence to attack them would be very difficult but , if a force could be brought at all , it would not have to be very large to capture all the bases . |
| 11 | He was sitting facing the Assistant Commissioner ( Crime ) , across a desk so neat and orderly and so well polished that you knew no serious work could be done at it . |
| 12 | Rooms were arranged round the atrium and colonnaded garden courts ( peristyles ) so shades or sun could be enjoyed at all seasons and time of day . |
| 13 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 14 | Despite Gloucestershire 's poor showing in the B&H this season , no blame could be levelled at their No. 1 , for Dean went on to register 54 and 80 against Sussex and Surrey respectively . |
| 15 | A farrier could be heard at work in an empty box on the north side and the smell of singeing hoof wafted across the yard . |
| 16 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 17 | Equipment could be located at any of the existing restaurants without serious dislocation or additional expense . |
| 18 | We have already mentioned that woodland could be located at a distance from the settlement , as only infrequent visits needed to be made . |
| 19 | Myriad troubles from which cable systems could suffer included ‘ … silt , uncharted currents … winds — during the monsoon no Indian Ocean cable could be mended at all . |
| 20 | As no progress could be made at that meeting , it was agreed that the matter should be brought to the next stage of procedures which is Joint Industrial Council . |
| 21 | ( Even with the economy-wide agreements in Sweden in the 1983 negotiations no settlement could be arrived at with the union side which insisted upon separate industry level negotiations being conducted . ) |
| 22 | This was so notwithstanding that the field could be closed at any time and that certain people could be refused admission . |
| 23 | The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks . |
| 24 | A fresh look could be taken at some of these , in order to determine their effectiveness in helping parishes both to respond to the liturgical changes of recent years and to explore a wider repertoire of music . |
| 25 | If it does happen however , there is a strong possibility that the fight could be staged at the 70,000-capacity Skydome in Canadian-reared Lewis 's home town of Toronto . |
| 26 | My view is that the community could be put at risk by some of these prisoners . |
| 27 | 144 , it was ruled that the somewhat similar provision in the English Act of 1910 against adjourning for over a month struck only at the consideration of new business and that matters before the court at the general or adjourned meeting could be considered at a further adjournment out with the month . |
| 28 | 144 , it was ruled that the somewhat similar prohibition in the English Act of 1910 against adjourning for over a month struck only at consideration of new business , and that matters before the court at the general or adjourned meeting could be considered at a further adjournment outwith the month . |
| 29 | Cub Scouts It was agreed that the cub scouts could have the use of the hall on a regular basis and that the upstairs committee room could be put at their disposal . |
| 30 | Cub Scouts It was agreed that the cub scouts could have the use of the hall on a regular basis and that the upstairs committee room could be put at their disposal . |