Example sentences of "[noun sg] could be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbon could be stored in empty gas fields |
| 2 | This has been done in the belief that redundant rural labour could be absorbed by consistent growth in the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy . |
| 3 | Blacks , gays , lesbians , the disabled and other disadvantaged people — all could join in demonstrating how the new thinking could be combined with commercial success . |
| 4 | For it had occurred to me that the proposed trip in the car could be put to good professional use ; that is to say , I could drive to the West Country and call on Miss Kenton in passing , thus exploring at first hand the substance of her wish to return to employment here at Darlington Hall . |
| 5 | This move would have been scientific if , for example , it had involved the prediction of a new kind of aberration in such a way that the existence of the new aberration could be tested by optical experiments . |
| 6 | It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years . |
| 7 | It went on , " I really do not see how a successful result could be achieved by forcible means . " |
| 8 | After the war , plastic-based iron-oxide tape could be cut with non-magnetic scissors ( or even a razor-blade ) , and either welded with cement or stuck with adhesive tape ( 23 ) . |
| 9 | Harmonisation could be limited to essential requirements in order for health and public safety considerations to be accounted for , and to ensure technical compatibility of products . |
| 10 | If the points were electrically stimulated to induce correct electrical balance , the impending physical changes were averted , In many cases they found that a pathological condition could be reversed by stimulating and rebalancing the points . |
| 11 | My account of deixis is such that the methodology could be applied to other kinds of discourse , both literary and non-literary . |
| 12 | Decision : it was clear to the Court that a sentence of detention in a young offender institution could be justified under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4A) ( b ) , on the ground that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him . |
| 13 | From the perspective of the NHS , considerable health gains and reductions in expenditure over the longer term could be achieved by expanding health promotion work with older people , a previously neglected group . |
| 14 | The costs of the programme could be controlled by coordinated use of facilities and personnel in antenatal and STD clinics and laboratories . |
| 15 | Competitive tendering could be extended to certain medical services as well . |
| 16 | In 1987 a significant number of local doctors expressed an interest in assuming greater responsibility for the clinical care of non-insulin treated patients if review could be scheduled in normal surgery time and provided responsibility for retinal screening was not included . |
| 17 | He anticipated new openings for Anglo-American coproduction , in which British talent could be deployed with American actors on films financed by the Americans and given proper distribution in the US . |
| 18 | The ingredient could be retained for other users thereby saving purchases of £34,000 less 25% [ £8,500 ] = £25,500 . |
| 19 | Consideration should be given to whether the requirement to be mobile could be restricted to particular regions while indicating that faster progression might be achieved by staff who were prepared to be widely mobile . |
| 20 | The advantage to Britain of ERM membership would be that , in addition to the Bank of England 's $42bn of foreign currency reserves , the pound could be supported by other European central banks , such as the wealthy West German Bundesbank , making speculation against sterling a much riskier business . |
| 21 | They believed the existing system worked to the enrichment of only a small number ; national benefit could be derived from legitimate commerce with a fertile Africa only if the slave trade did not create misleadingly attractive alternatives . |
| 22 | The vast mass of peasantry could be neutralized by promising land reforms . |
| 23 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 24 | Similarly , within ATE areas testing could be supported by intelligent diagnostic information systems capable of guidance and support to the test engineer helping him assimilate complex failure history data and useful testing procedures . |
| 25 | Specialist treatment bases might continue to exist where intensive work could be done on particular problems , but their aim would be to ensure that children could take advantage of mainstream services . |
| 26 | Kate Collingwood , writing as tutor-organiser for Essex with a Federation Executive highly committed to voluntary participation , felt that ‘ any of my organising work could be done by voluntary branch members if they had the time . |
| 27 | Like the project on information technology , this work could be administered by small directorates within the Department of Industry . |
| 28 | For example the land at Skelton Hall could be regarded as open land but no one is suggesting that that should be part of the greenbelt . |
| 29 | This independence of knowledge sources during processing meant that the lexical access component could be directed to any part of the phoneme graph , and thus left to right strategies as used in HARPY could be compared with island-driving strategies which began anywhere along the time dimension of the search space . |
| 30 | This extra water could subsequently be lost without reversion to cooler conditions , and such a relatively small quantity could be lost by uv dissociation as outlined above . |