Example sentences of "[Wh det] could be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a static gathering was likely to amount to an obstruction , which could be cleared by the police exercising common law powers . |
| 2 | Such evidence might be taken to show a much less intense use of coinage in the former than in the latter , a view which could be supported by the calculations based on the material from Bath that very little coinage was available in circulation per capita of the population of Roman Britain ( see p. 47 ) . |
| 3 | Congress duly approved funding of $200 million , but subsequently objected to the Defense Department 's initial proposals for projects which could be supported by it . |
| 4 | Is that a matter which could be overcome by detailed position ? |
| 5 | It is already widely-known that sailors suffered the dreaded disease of scurvy ( in Gaelic ) , which could be counteracted by eating the food containing the appropriate substance , ascorbic acid . |
| 6 | These men were aware of the importance of recognizing that these so-called ‘ primitive peoples ’ had complex and elaborate cultures which could be destroyed by the supposedly civilizing influences of the European powers . |
| 7 | ‘ No court shall exercise its powers to make a specific issue order or prohibited steps order — ( a ) with a view to achieving a result which could be achieved by making a residence or contact order ; … |
| 8 | ‘ No court shall exercise its powers to make a specific issue order or prohibited steps order — ( a ) with a view to achieving a result which could be achieved by making a residence or contact order ; … |
| 9 | The court can not exercise its powers to make a specific issue or prohibited steps order with a view to achieving a result which could be achieved by a residence or contact order ( s9(5) ( a ) ) . |
| 10 | THE £3 billion Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link and the £300 million Heathrow Express line are to go ahead , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced yesterday.But the future of the £1.7 billion cross-London rail link Crossrail appeared less certain with Mr Lamont saying the scheme was now going to be a joint venture between the public and private sectors.The much-delayed 68-mile Channel Tunnel fast link will not go into London 's King 's Cross station as British Rail hoped , but instead will terminate at neighbouring St Pancras — a less expensive option.But Mr Lamont did say that Government money would be put into the scheme which could be completed by the end of the decade.The 15-mile Paddington-Heathrow fast link — a joint venture between BR and airport operator BAA — will be started later this year and should be finished by the second half of 1997 . |
| 11 | The author showed shrewd perception of the powers which could be exercised by commercial blockade or by boycott , and he specifically indicates wool and tin as English products which were necessary to the Flemings , who could be brought under pressure by a withdrawal of supplies . |
| 12 | Coun Richmond believes the authority squandered the opportunity to create a shops development in part of the town centre which could be hit by the new Cornmill shopping complex . |
| 13 | The expansion of capital and population beyond a certain point was ‘ a national evil ’ , creating social problems which could be offset by greater prosperity . |
| 14 | He accused BR of malice by employing contractors on work which could be done by redundant rail employees . |
| 15 | These identifications are part of the reason for their continued autonomy from the lowlands , in that they prevent the Buid from developing internal hierarchies which could be manipulated by more powerful state societies . |
| 16 | Finally , Gorbachev proposed the convention of a broad conference on the Mediterranean , similar to the CSCE , which could be attended by the Mediterranean states , ‘ the states adjoining the region ’ , the United States and ‘ other interested countries ’ . |
| 17 | The providers of these training modules were the education authorities and colleges of education who offered a number of area sessions which could be attended by individual members from boards . |
| 18 | The same might be said of the individuals in Britain considering themselves members of the ‘ middle class ’ : there is not an essential characteristic common to them all , which could be discovered by theoretical reflection . |
| 19 | The importance of Leigh is that the court was prepared to treat the " open justice " principle as a rule of law which could be asserted by a journalist against a discretionary policy , rather than as a desirable state of affairs which could nonetheless give way to judicial convenience . |
| 20 | The very act of carving the symbols in the rock can create an electrical charge which could be seen by a sensitive . |
| 21 | The two local policemen came around one day and suggested I place a red light in a window which could be seen by as many neighbours or passers-by as possible . |
| 22 | This defect was ingeniously got over by developing a hardener which could be painted by itself on to one half of the joint while the glue was painted on the other half , nothing began to happen in the glue until the two halves were brought together . |
| 23 | Professor Ferguson also emphasised the existence of serious functional symptoms which could be reinforced by suggestion in a susceptible individual . |
| 24 | At the time this was the longest journey which could be made by tram in London and owing to rapid trolleybus conversions , the last occasion on which it was possible . |
| 25 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 26 | The Law Commission could readily produce a definition , which could be refined by Parliament . |
| 27 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 28 | Now 48 sites which could be maintained by local authorities have been identified . |
| 29 | In practice in Europe , the returns seem to have been slight , of a kind which could be met by resident servants ( Smith 1981 ) , and did not include automatic old-age support . |
| 30 | The environment will generate demands which could be met by the increment in the budget without challenging the existing budget thus leaving existing programmes of expenditure untouched . |