Example sentences of "[noun] could be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The principles of historical criticism could be applied to religious disciplines other than biblical ones , most notably to the development of doctrine . |
| 32 | Some clauses would need to be printed in red ink with a red hand pointing to it before the notice could be held to sufficient . |
| 33 | Under this proposal , the resulting revenue would be earmarked ( no doubt against strong Treasury opposition ) for a fund , from which capital sums could be paid to selected groups in the population . |
| 34 | This in turn could be added to standard pig feed to enrich its protein content . |
| 35 | One area for concern during the trials was the chance that if the potatoes were to become weeds , the new genes could be transmitted to other similar plants in the area . |
| 36 | No stronger message could be delivered to Labour headquarters of the need to do so than a Conservative victory on Thursday . |
| 37 | Additions could be made to existing New Towns around London , particularly Stevenage and Harlow , but also at Basildon , Crawley and Hemel Hempstead , and also to a dozen other towns in the South-east , all of which offered scope for an expansion of at least 30,000 population : Aylesbury , Banbury , Bedford , Chelmsford , Colchester , Hastings , Maidstone , Medway Towns , Norwich , Poole , Reading and Southend . |
| 38 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 39 | Suppose that x and y are numbers , such that x is greater than y ; then it would appear that there is no conceivable way in which such a relation could be reduced to qualitative properties of one kind or another , and re-expressed , accordingly , in a form that does not require the existence of both its terms . |
| 40 | This lovely fragment from a larger drinking-vessel , the kantharos ( one is held by Dionysos often , as in fig. 56 ) , shows how Kleitias 's elegant strength could be raised to monumental weight and power ; and it is this combination that marks the central tradition in Attic black-figure . |
| 41 | But then ‘ it is difficult to see how analytical reason could be applied to dialectical reason and claim to establish it , if the two are defined by mutually exclusive characteristics ’ . |
| 42 | Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism . |
| 43 | Perhaps that principle could be applied to other opportunity areas . |
| 44 | A similar thesis could be devoted to nautical anthologies . |
| 45 | It seemed reasonable to suppose that such benefits could be applied to other districts of the city without necessarily designating housing improvement schemes . |
| 46 | The distinction between operative know followed by the bare or to infinitive could be imputed to dialectal differences if , as Quirk et al. |
| 47 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 48 | Depends how much ma if you , maybe new P C these days , it would normally have it already on it four thousand K of memory , and three thousand left could be converted to expanded memory , but it 's not worth it only use five hundred K of it probably . |
| 49 | By 1938 98,280 eleven-year-olds in England and Wales could be admitted to secondary schools . |
| 50 | If suitable genes for gluten production could be added to British varieties , or if the genes in British wheat were made to produce more or better gluten , imports would be saved and farmers would get a higher price for a better quality wheat . |
| 51 | Boris Pyankov , discussed which sections of the armed forces stationed in the republic could be transferred to Moldovan control . |
| 52 | European business development director Peter Scott denied rumours that Pyramid — like its OEM customer Olivetti — had been looking at DEC 's Alpha chip for future developments , but pointed out that much of Pyramid 's SMP technology could be ported to other platforms : it has already licenced its bus and systems software to ICL and Siemens-Nixdorf , and says that further deals will follow . |
| 53 | It seems American officials fear that the technology could be diverted to military purposes . |