Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he wanted was wide open spaces that could be converted to one of his new-style holiday camps , offering bargain , trouble-free holidays for the whole family . |
| 2 | Unshielded , an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare . |
| 3 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 4 | Treatment was considered adequate if the oesophageal lumen could be dilated to 15 mm and there was complete relief of dysphagia . |
| 5 | The new processor is expected to operate in 8-bit mode rather than the 4-bit approach used in the MP-1 ( processors sourced from Sierra Semiconductor Corp ) ; theoretically , the MasPar architecture could be expanded to 64 bits . |
| 6 | This suggests that the rise could be limited to 63 centimetres by 2100 — compared to earlier predictions of as much as 5 metres . |
| 7 | The study states that temperature increase could be limited to 0.2 degrees per decade , due to the oceans ' ability to absorb additional heat . |
| 8 | If the mid-point were taken arbitrarily the implication is that the UK manpower in R&D could be increased to 13–14 per cent of total manpower with continuing improvement in productivity . |
| 9 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 10 | The total time in work could be raised to four days for someone aged between fifteen and sixteen . |
| 11 | You could be invited to one of these . |
| 12 | The brain regions responsible for storing the memory could be located to one of the major lobes into which the octopus brain was divided . |
| 13 | ( Under certain circumstances the DH have indicated that this limit could be dropped to 9000 . ) |
| 14 | If these four risk factors were eliminated then mortality from sudden infant death syndrome could be reduced to 0.8/1000 for both Maori and non-Maori infants . |
| 15 | Some manufacturers guarantee CDs for only 30 years but Mr Bert Gall , general manager of optical systems at Philips , said the life of the average disc should be more than 1,000 years , though it could be reduced to 50 if manufacturing was poor and the discs were mistreated . |
| 16 | Before any sale , the Department of Energy would want to remove any loss-making capacity , but all parties were shocked by a government-commissioned report from merchant bank NM Rothschild , which was widely leaked , forecasting that the industry could be reduced to 12 deep pits over the next three years . |
| 17 | Now scientists believe the gas could be linked to two and a half thousand cancer deaths per year . |
| 18 | An indication of the importance of the two financial measures ( RSX and JXC ) is provided by the decisive rejection of a joint test of whether both their coefficients could be set to zero . |
| 19 | In contrast , a play could be performed to thousands at a time . |