Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoarding at the entrance to the sliproad leading off the A643 five miles out of Mainz warned of the penalties which could be imposed on any unauthorized personnel attempting to gain illegal entry into the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant a mile further down the road . |
| 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 | These have been used for surveys of ruined areas in North Africa with , in the view of the archaeologists , a success rate better than could be achieved by any other aerial platform . |
| 4 | On a simple majority requirement therefore , victory could be achieved by any two of the big three if they gained the support of one of the smaller members , or by an alliance of the three large states . |
| 5 | Within this region , as Professor Hoskins suggested , there are various names and alignments which raise questions in the mind of any landscape historian , questions which could be asked of any part of England . |
| 6 | Philosophically , it could be argued in any case that most or all words present analogous difficulties , and need to be put in scare quotes ( " the 'topic' of this 'essay' is the 'issue' of the 'author's ' 'intentions ' " , etc . ) . |
| 7 | The Revenue believes that the proposals would significantly simplify the personal taxation system , as in most cases returns and payment could be accepted without any further enquiries or correspondence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All the TARDIS sections were integrated , like a jigsaw , and could be arranged in any number of abstract ways without the visual suggestion of the set being lost . |
| 12 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 13 | The existence of the standard meant that any Red Book disc could be played on any Red Book player , anywhere in the world . |
| 14 | Extremely powerful local area networks will be needed to handle the kinds of data volumes that could be involved at any given moment . |
| 15 | A recent international meeting of computer-literate historians addressed these very questions and resolved to prepare a curriculum of instruction in computational methods and techniques which could be adopted at any number of institutions ( Davis , et.al. 1993 ) . |
| 16 | For instance , Swordfish Pilaki could easily be made with halibut or cod and the Tuna Tortiglioni could be made with any other fish or indeed some ham cut into pieces . |
| 17 | A request for the consideration of the establishment of an EWC could be made by any employee , or by central management . |
| 18 | Unlike those to consultants , however , referrals could be made by any member of the primary health care team . |
| 19 | In 1647 he implemented a suggestion for a universal ‘ character ’ made by Francis Bacon [ q.v. ] ( 1605 ) , and later by John Wilkins [ q.v. ] in Mercury ( 1641 ) , by inventing A Common Writi ng , i.e. a system of symbols which , like Arabic numerals , represented words which could be realized in any language . |
| 20 | This arrangement could be extended to any group in the health service prepared to give a similar pledge . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | He went on to experiment with how far a branch could be extended in any one direction before the tree tipped over . |
| 23 | Standard trestle piers could be joined , and so could be constructed to any height , width , or length . |
| 24 | However , he refused to attach too much importance to these since they could be withdrawn at any time unless they were passed into law . |
| 25 | The Pathfinder Force should be on a different basis and these should consist of 45 sorties , but crews could be withdrawn at any time after the completion of 30 sorties . |
| 26 | A world set in a universe whose furthest reaches could be explored by any rambler with a pair of nailed boots , a packet of sandwiches , and a one-inch map . |
| 27 | I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so . |
| 28 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 29 | As he remembered the description , the pedestal was a single ruby of gigantic proportions and everything between the pillars was carved in crystal so that the inside of the dome could be seen from any angle . |
| 30 | What could be done with any realizations ? |