Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the import of the " new " sense of design which I have hypothesised could be developed from these sketches is its interaction with social forces — literally its forming of them . |
| 2 | It could be argued from this , that er , Wilson 's father began to identify more of his son rather than the other way round . |
| 3 | The counts of Champagne were quick to realise the lucrative sources of income that could be made from these fairs and dropped any inhibiting feudal dues , guaranteed the safety of the merchants and generally policed the fairs . |
| 4 | This semi-autonomous status , compounded by the administrative disintegration of China during these years , persuaded Japan that the future of Manchuria could be separated from that of China . |
| 5 | Patients with true ARF could be separated from those with chronic renal impairment by having values of carbamylated haemoglobin below 95 g VH/g Hb ( sensitivity 100% , specificity 80% , positive predictive value 69% ) . |
| 6 | These results suggested that the 660 kb Sfi I restriction fragment within RH 128 ( a ) had not undergone rearrangement during hybrid construction and ( b ) could be separated from most human Sfi I fragments by PFGE . |
| 7 | It says that life-support equipment could be withdrawn from some terminally-ill people . |
| 8 | Eventually there came the discovery that a scented oil could be extracted from those flowers or leaves which were perfumed . |
| 9 | Norweb stated that the small scale sizes of renewable energy sources made them highly suitable for local integration and concluded that 12 per cent of electricity demand could be generated from these sources . |
| 10 | This involved making a ‘ negative ’ version of the recording , with ridges instead of grooves , so the copies could be formed from that . |
| 11 | On the prairies these stations , with their high steep-pitched roofs and their larger adjacent grain elevators , could be seen from many miles away . |
| 12 | P/O Atherton was a very experienced pilot , with a second pilot as navigator , so one can not accept that they could be so far off course as to reach the target thirty minutes later , especially as the fires started in the docks by the bombing raid of Blenheims of 59 Squadron could be seen from many miles away . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the early-morning sun the incomparably beautiful Shwe Dagon pagoda with its gold-plated spire could be seen from some miles away . |
| 15 | It could be seen from these that the problems faced by Eastern European museums since the decline of the socialist regimes are strikingly similar . |
| 16 | The low rumble of artillery fire could be heard from this nearby Thai border town . |
| 17 | Rifle and tommy gun fire could be heard from several directions at once . |
| 18 | Examples could be given from many of the centres visited so far . |
| 19 | Moreover , through their well directed efforts , that vast resource of past literature and scriptures , every item of which is capable of innumerable interpretations , could be saved from that ultimate oblivion and loss to humanity which could result from its sheer overwhelming quantity and complexity . |
| 20 | Thus one John Armstrong could be distinguished from another as John of the Park or Jock of the Side , the Laird 's Jock ( son of the chieftain ) , Jock Stowlugs , and so on . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , an awareness that Japan was acutely vulnerable to threats of superior force , a resentment that Japan was considered inferior because she did not conform to Western standards and models , and a perception that other nations were prepared to act ‘ unfairly ’ to maximize the advantages that could be gained from any particular situation , made Japan determined to achieve equal status with the so-called Great Powers , or indeed , to surpass them . |
| 22 | The working principle is that obstructions are built into the lock to prevent the wrong shape of key from working the mechanism , and similar designs of lock are still use today ( although it has been suggested that the Romans were not able to invent a lock that could be operated from both sides of a door ) . |
| 23 | Attention was then turned towards possible funds which could be recovered from former Drexel employees , most notably Milken . |
| 24 | Excavations such as those of the German excavator Heinrich Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) at Troy and Mycenae , of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans ( 1851–1951 ) at Knossos , and of many others at this time began to prove that much more than objects for display in a museum could be recovered from these sites . |
| 25 | The truth , if truth could be anticipated from this subtle creature , even in circumstances of desperation , might shed light in more than one direction . |
| 26 | That is , I think , another great benefit that could be reaped from these developments . |
| 27 | Apparently they feared the burning timbers more than the bullets , but no doubt they were feeling some reaction after more than four hours in action : four hours of dodging snipers ' bullets and bursting open doors that all too often concealed a rifleman who fired , while around the houses a grenade could be dropped from any window . |
| 28 | But if the victuallers were to have their stores ready only by the end of August , and the king was intending , as it seemed , to continue his journey eastwards across the centre of England , equidistant from the possible battle-grounds of the Welsh and Scottish borders and the threatened south coast , and ready to move in whichever direction should first require his presence , then there was no longer anything to be gained by loitering here , and he had better be making his way over to Owen with what information he had , and whatever intelligent inferences could be drawn from that information . |
| 29 | The conclusion that could be drawn from this argument is that is not a phoneme of English , but is an allophone of several different vowel phonemes when those phonemes occur in an unstressed syllable . |
| 30 | But what else could be expected from such a stiff-necked people ? |