Example sentences of "that [noun] could be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evan Campbell , or John Hay , or Laughland Vass , or perhaps all three Highlander guides , knew that milk could be had from the Macraes of Auchnasheal ; the travellers sat down outside a house and were brought wooden dishes — Johnson calls them ‘ pails ’ — of milk . |
| 2 | We have just seen how Kierkegaard rejected any idea that faith could be proved by the appeal to historical argument . |
| 3 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 4 | The team had already identified the capability of the switchboard equipment itself as a major cause of delays and one recommendation was that Direct Dial In [ DDI ] facilities should be installed so that calls could be dialled direct to specific people , by-passing the switchboard . |
| 5 | The European Court of Justice ruled on Oct. 17 , 1989 , that employers could be called upon by wage tribunals to prove that wages paid to women were equivalent to those for men , whereas previously the burden of proof as to non-equivalence had rested solely on the plaintiff . |
| 6 | The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks . |
| 7 | The treasurer felt it would be advantageous to have the addresses of those in charge of the regular activities using the hall so that accounts could be sent out . |
| 8 | The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected . |
| 9 | this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ . |
| 10 | Suggestions made by Arthur Holmes and others that continents could be moved by convection currents within the mantle were ignored rather than countered by opponents of drift . |
| 11 | English merchants felt confident that money could be made out of settlements there , if only they could acquire enough influence at court to secure a charter to launch them . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a nice shopping centre but now we feel that money could be spent on a refurbishment programme , ’ she said . |
| 13 | The format of the tables is n't fixed for all time ; if you think that improvements could be made , write to Colin Urie at SCOTVEC with details . |
| 14 | In 1988 the District Council , responsible for maintainance of pathways , had said that improvements could be made if ‘ Spokes ’ , the Lothians cycle campaign , would supply voluntary labour . |
| 15 | The scale of the problem is such that £94m could be spent in Middlesbrough alone and there would still be housing need in that town . |
| 16 | It also claims that emissions could be stabilized by 1994 through the use of new technologies and tax incentives for fuel-efficient cars . |
| 17 | Home advantage meant that pitches could be prepared especially to suit fast bowlers , and come the first Test in Jamaica it was soon evident this is what had happened . |
| 18 | He said people who condemned the scheme for being too extreme should remember that rules could be relaxed , while it would be unpopular to introduce more stringent byelaws after the trial . |
| 19 | In this the sociology of knowledge follows what he calls a ‘ reactionary prejudice ’ of Hegel and Engels that asserted that freedom could be gained by knowledge about the determinants affecting social being ( Popper 1966 : 223 ) . |
| 20 | The issue of cost was to be tackled head-on in this research programme , so that guidance could be offered on the cost-effectiveness of a variety of approaches to a variety of local circumstances . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Alkali and Clean Air Inspectorate spelt out its wobbly rationale for taking no action in its 1981 Report , saying that its powers were ‘ intended to protect the population and environment of England and Wales ’ , so ‘ it is unlikely that action could be taken under the legislation solely to protect the environment of other countries . ’ |
| 23 | It was sheer Utopianism to think that officialdom could be destroyed ‘ immediately , everywhere , completely ’ ( p. 42 ) . |
| 24 | How to avert both these dangers became a major concern among employers , politicians and in the press , although optimism remained that solutions could be found . |
| 25 | Her heart throbbed heavily at the thought that Dana could be hurt , perhaps worse . |
| 26 | while the European Communities ( EC ) warned that aid could be withheld . |
| 27 | One on-set photographer was quoted as saying : ‘ It became a standing joke that Kylie could be heard saying : ‘ Charlie 's right ’ . ’ |
| 28 | The deal also meant that Kylie could be given a better than average contract , he revealed in Business Review Weekly . |
| 29 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 30 | By the late 19th century , hard-knotted rugs had almost ceased to be made in Europe , as the advent of weaving machines meant that rugs could be produced much more quickly at a fraction of the cost . |