Example sentences of "could be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Child benefit could be made taxable , or could be restricted to women whose children are not yet of school age . |
| 32 | But we are aware that many ex-shipyard workers are engaged in some very routine work , and that many of them feel they could be made redundant at any moment . |
| 33 | Almost a quarter of Galway 's manufacturing workforce are being put out of a job and local business leaders say that up to 2,000 more could be made redundant by the ripple effect hitting Digital 's contractors and suppliers . |
| 34 | so you could be made redundant then |
| 35 | Theoretical considerations indicated that if the electric field applied to the surface could be made strong enough to confine the mobile electrons to a very thin layer near the semiconductor 's surface , with thickness comparable to the wavelength associated with the electrons there , then the electrons ' motion perpendicular to the surface would be ‘ quantised ’ . |
| 36 | What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too . |
| 37 | Advocates of participative approaches to the introduction of new technology would applaud the involvement of production workers in ‘ productionising ’ the machinery , arguing that such involvement would mean that the particular knowledge of the workers , gained from their on-the-job experience , could be made good use of , and also that such involvement usually leads to greater commitment to the change . |
| 38 | But that could be made good , Mendoros reckons , by a joint venture with a well known local aero-engine manufacturer . |
| 39 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 40 | He hinted , however , that greater sums of money could be made available by the Community to Poland and Hungary after 1990 . |
| 41 | In the Navigation 's case the ground floor food preparation area was obtained by converting an old-fashioned and unwanted small private bar : similar areas suitable for conversion can not be guaranteed in more than 50 per cent of the units , though equivalent areas could be made available in the remainder through ‘ building out ’ . |
| 42 | A concise report could be made available every month to all managers in the firm . |
| 43 | Farmers were evacuated so that their land could be made available for Japanese immigrants or industrial concerns ; labour conscription was widespread . |
| 44 | Interest was aroused when the University of Cambridge declared that it was prepared , if the necessary funds could be made available , to consider the establishment of an Institute of Criminology . |
| 45 | And , there 's at least eight discs available at the present time , and more could be made available . |
| 46 | Cm.918 sought to address this issue by committing the government to see if these reports could be made available a couple of months earlier . |
| 47 | In either case welfare reports could be made available through the international service . |
| 48 | The Minister said that he understood the points that we were making and would undertake a close examination to find out what information could be made available . |
| 49 | In any scheme where allotment ground is lose , and a residual amount of land is left between the Bypass and the existing allotment boundary fence , this land could be made available to compensate for the loss . |
| 50 | Perhaps if you were able to identify a particular topic a relevant report could be made available to you . |
| 51 | Then that money could be made available to areas in Scotland where coal mining has contracted , such as Midlothian . |
| 52 | The finished suite of leaflets could be made available for sale as a publication in its own right . |
| 53 | A further disbursement of SDR87,600,000 could be made available later if certain conditions were met . |
| 54 | In addition , a further SDR21,000,000 ( about US$28,000,000 ) could be made available under the contingency window of the IMF 's compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) , and SDR33,600,000 ( about US$45,000,000 ) were being made available immediately from the CCFF . |
| 55 | Exemplar assessments could be made available for students to study in order to give guidance on what is expected . |
| 56 | Er and I , as Mr Curtis has suggested , if Mr Shepherd who conducted the greenbelt local plan enquiry decided on massive relaxation or substantial relaxation on the inner boundary , er of the greenbelt , er and the implication being that er some of that land could be made available for housing , then yes , as a matter of principal that would cast doubt on the new settlement er strategy in terms of the in terms of the numbers , conversely , if you look at another option , if you , for example , confirmed the new settlement strategy but thought that the development requirement for Greater York really was er needed to be larger than nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , twelve thousand , thirteen thousand , and I hope not , then the County Council would need to have a look at the issue of one as opposed to two new settlements , and again we will do that , and we will not take any decisions on the basis of having one report , er but not another , and I hope er that that is helpful , I can confirm that er at the end of this month the Greater York authorities will be meeting , erm and er they will be urgently looking towards erm progress erm on this issue . |
| 57 | In Sweden these potential documents ‘ which could be made available by the possibilities to combine and search through information using computer techniques were official documents ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 58 | ‘ His figures show that if Durham reached the top level of civilianisation achieved by other forces , then around 50 new police officers could be made available . |
| 59 | According to a report to today 's meeting the course could be made available to nine secondary schools in Darlington . |
| 60 | It suggests that huge amounts of extra money could be made available for the homeless , improving the condition of houses and tackling the growing shortage of affordable homes for rent if local housing companies were created . |