Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the demand for labour is a decreasing function of the real wage rate and the supply of labour is ( perhaps ) an increasing function of the real wage rate , they argued that the origins of general unemployment could be traced to the maintenance of a real wage rate , w 1 , which exceeded the market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 2 | From this nucleus , royal territory was in the future to expand to the point at which , in 1239 , the whole county could be annexed to the royal demesne . |
| 3 | By 1983 these services accounted for almost £I billion of the annual budget and any savings made there could be transferred to the main activity of treating patients . |
| 4 | In this way , the basic pattern in the egg could be transferred to the cells . |
| 5 | If it could be transferred to the road instead , even modest traffic would keep the road so warm that ice could never form . |
| 6 | This was reinforced by the tendency of national governments not to handle unpopular decisions if they could be transferred to the High Authority for action . |
| 7 | Where a seller was not in possession of a licence which could be transferred to the buyer at the date of completion of the contract it was decided that , the seller having failed to execute the contract , the purchaser could repudiate it : Day v. Luhke ( 1868 ) L.R. 5 Eq . |
| 8 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
| 9 | Richard was immediately content , as he only was when something could be ascertained to the nearest degree of accuracy . |
| 10 | And I think the main question , and the best question that could be asked to the audience if they really |
| 11 | Once personal information gets into such a network it will be difficult if not impossible to restrict access to it ; it could be that such an open system could be justified to the data subject as the latest desirable addition to the role of consumer in the acquisitive society — why not order one 's claret from one 's fireside by the keyboard direct from the château , with instant payment by electronic fund transfer at point of sale , debiting one 's bank account instantaneously ? |
| 12 | As long as matter was considered to be inert , its motion could be ascribed to the divine will . |
| 13 | Freud thought it was difficult to see how communism could be generalized to the whole world , unless national rivalries could cope with aggression without full-scale wars . |
| 14 | This principle could be applied to the current script recognition system to make best use of all available information . |
| 15 | This concept could be applied to the machine-readable database in very literal ways . |
| 16 | It was uncertain whether the methods developed to survey fossiliferous sediments could be applied to the deformed crystalline rocks which underlie so much of Scotland . |
| 17 | Soviet leaders have not accepted that the essence of the Brezhnev initiative for the Gulf could be applied to the different strategic and military environment in which Afghanistan lies . |
| 18 | It would also appear that the rule applies to realty and could be applied to the builder of a house and possibly a local authority building inspector . |
| 19 | So sensitive was the occasion , approval had to be given by none other than the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury before Mr Hibbert could be exposed to the harsh winds of public controversy . |
| 20 | But his stable revealed that the 10-year-old could be diverted to the Hackett Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow over a distance just over half a mile shorter than the Mackeson . |
| 21 | As well as enjoying local amenities , excursions could be made to the more famous and extensive Bois with their artificially created lakes , waterfalls and grottoes . |
| 22 | Amongst other things , the examination had revealed possible areas where improvements could be made to the services that the CSSU provided , in particular those services concerned with supplying the information needed for staff to fulfil their functions . |
| 23 | Payment could be made to the monarch himself or it could be made to the current holder of the office . |
| 24 | Payment could be made to the monarch himself or it could be made to the current holder of the office . |
| 25 | While there are some aspects of the redraft where it might be argued that the law has not been accurately expressed , there is no doubt that both its language and typography suggest that there are considerable improvements which could be made to the present drafting and printing of statutes in the UK . |
| 26 | Areas to be examined include what barriers may prevent greater use of company voluntary arrangements , the potential to reduce the number of Companies House filing requirements , what simplifications could be made to the law affecting private companies , the law on groups of companies , disincorporation , and the restrictions on companies helping people to buy shares in them . |
| 27 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 28 | One , application could be made to the court that Mr the landlord is unreasonably withholding consent to the lease , if the court finds that this is in fact the case they will permit the assignment of the lease to you , not withstanding the landlord 's objection . |
| 29 | Land which was sold could be made subject to restrictions and future development value could be reserved to the commission . |
| 30 | With an emphasis on design and economy the Ministry advised on the density of residential areas , showing how schemes of varying densities could be fitted to the same unit area of land . |