Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SE would be a hybrid ( and to this extent some of the original purpose of the SE has been lost ) ; it would be incorporated in a particular Member State , whose domestic laws would govern certain aspects of its operations ( e.g. insolvency ) , but its registered office could be transferred to another Member State . |
| 2 | Any new vein discovered , but left unwrought for the space of six months after notice was given by the estate to the captain or purser of the mine , could be licenced to any other person to work . |
| 3 | But I would like to note in passing that Mrs. Campbell-Fisher 's observation could be applied to all second-order experiences , not just the arts . |
| 4 | In addition this ban could be applied to all political parties in a locality for up to three months . |
| 5 | The same policy could be applied to all areas of communication , such as between the CBI and the Government , which Mr Davies described as ‘ quite a tricky business ’ . |
| 6 | If it works with melonoma it could be applied to all the other forms of cancer . |
| 7 | There are so many suffixes that it will only be possible here to examine a small proportion of them ; we will concentrate on those which are common and productive ( that is , are applied to a considerable number of stems and could be applied to more to make new English words ) . |
| 8 | A higher standard of planning control could be applied to these designated areas , with special consideration given to the height and bulk of buildings , materials , colours , vertical or horizontal emphasis and the grain of design . |
| 9 | She always loathed naturalistic and realist writing , and locates in Raymond Carver a ‘ grey … glum … discontented acquiescence ’ that could be applied to any number of British anaemic depressives . |
| 10 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 11 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 12 | Such choices are made on a national basis , and bibliometric methods could be applied to either . |
| 13 | This was one way in which astute owners could circumvent the earlier statutory provisions ; a building could be neglected to such an extent that demolition was unavoidable , thus giving the owner the possibility of reaping the development value of the site . |
| 14 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 15 | In the early stages of the planning of the New York show , it had been mooted that the pictures from the Russian , French and American institutions could be lent to each musem in turn . |
| 16 | Mobility allowance , for example , could be extended to all older people who were eligible to claim it , but to do so requires an expression of political conviction that age discrimination is unjust . |
| 17 | This need not be confined to salaried partners as such , but could be extended to all ; for example , introducing a salary scale based on age and experience comparable with Civil Service pay at its administrative grades with an equal division of surplus profits . |
| 18 | This arrangement could be extended to any group in the health service prepared to give a similar pledge . |
| 19 | The same argument could be extended to any other region of the electromagnetic spectrum ( although a creature able to see using , say , X-rays is vanishingly improbable in terms of basic biology ) . |
| 20 | Standard trestle piers could be joined , and so could be constructed to any height , width , or length . |
| 21 | He could be sent to another war zone at any time . |
| 22 | The structure of the ‘ curriculum for all ’ rests fundamentally on the Conservative government 's intention to locate children in standardised hierarchies of achievement in each subject throughout their school career , so that they could be compared to each other , their teachers ' performance compared to that of other teachers and their schools ' standards set against their competitors in the marketplace . |
| 23 | This measure was important , first , because it was the first extension from the field of schooling into that of welfare of the principle that a publicly-financed benefit could be granted to those in need , free both of charge and of the disabilities associated with the Poor Law ; second , it was a step towards recognition that parents were not necessarily culpable for the undernourishment of their children and that , with public support , needy children could be well cared for at home and did not require withdrawal into public or voluntary care . |
| 24 | A group of people politically sympathetic to the government of the day could be appointed to each department to assist ministers with advice that would have a political content . |
| 25 | Probably the first piece of advice that could be given to any new practitioner is that whilst a friend may be a client , a client should never become a friend , for an easy transition from a client to a friend can often lead to serious problems and difficulties . |
| 26 | The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time . |
| 27 | This financial crowding out , as it is called , could be offset to some extent by an increase in the speed at which money circulates — the velocity of circulation . |
| 28 | She could be matched to any of four performers in the floorshow ; Josie was n't sure why , but it was as if her teenager 's skin and certain odd , somehow held-back elements of her personality made her into a blank sheet onto which anything could be drawn . |
| 29 | If approved , the building would stay there for two years and then could be moved to another site . |
| 30 | The use of investment tax credits , so that firms can offset some of the cost of capital equipment against corporation tax liability , is one instrument that could be assigned to this target . |