Example sentences of "could be put [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 2 | Blindfolded and presented with this and a Def Leppard album , sensible money could be put on 80 per cent of those challenged failing to tell the two apart . |
| 3 | By the late 1950s the breed was again in decline and part of the blame could be put on the 1949 Agricultural Act , which set guidelines for bull licensing and required bulls ' dams to have high recorded milk yields . |
| 4 | Pyle asked if a ‘ block ’ could be put on Laing boarding any flight at all , even internal . |
| 5 | The demands placed upon them by academic subjects could be put on one side , they could devote their minds with urgency to the mastery of new skills and knowledge . |
| 6 | Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped . |
| 7 | Perhaps during social education discussions in schools , more emphasis could be put on the importance of considering the long-term supportiveness of a potential marriage partner , of thinking through one 's aspirations for work and children and taking positive steps to achieve one 's hopes rather than letting things ‘ just happen ’ . |
| 8 | I was stunned and very angry that five pence could be put on a child 's life . |
| 9 | Lord Justice Glidewell said no reliance could be put on her confession and said it is likely that the conviction would eventually be quashed . |
| 10 | But if you do find an area where you could save a key person several hours a day , then that is real money saved where he could be using his special expertise in his business to get more business , and then one would have to look more closely at erm the particular application , particular jobs that he 's doing and that could be put on the computer . |
| 11 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 12 | The following extract is exactly as written : ‘ When I tell you that something you use every day could be put to better use — and that using it better could help you to win greater influence , more respect and higher status , promotion and a larger income … it could widen your circle of friends and possibly even secure you fame and power — you might well be curious to know what that ‘ something ’ is … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Before , however , the plan could be put to the test preliminary peace terms had been agreed and England 's victory in the Seven Years War was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763 . |
| 15 | In the eyes of those who believed that the Masai were decorative but unproductive idlers sitting on land that could be put to better use , the unco-operative attitude of district officials was mere romantic obstructionism , proof positive that they had been bewitched by the Masai . |
| 16 | If an undergravel filter is in use , whether downflow or reverse-flow , then extra biological filtration is totally unnecessary within the canister which could be put to better use with chemical media . |
| 17 | Do n't forget , either , that tobacco is a cash-crop : intrinsically worthless , taking up land that could be put to far better use . |
| 18 | RADICAL proposals to cut the Premier League to 18 teams and introduce a Second Division could be put to the vote today . |
| 19 | The Church has already agreed to let Pat have our morning tapes to give them free of charge , and if anyone else would like to send anything , it could be put to good use . |
| 20 | An efficiently organised reception office should always have an up-to-date set of reference books in order to be able to answer the innumerable and varied questions that could be put to them by the guests . |
| 21 | To develop their awareness and need to know their product simple questionnaires could be put to the staff along the lines of : |
| 22 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 23 | If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death . |
| 24 | The auditor must examine whether resources could be put to alternative uses , whether objectives could be achieved by an alternative strategy and ( if practicable ) compare the operations of one particular department with another . |
| 25 | Each of these chapters contained at least some description of how the concepts and techniques they described could be put to practical use to build up market knowledge . |
| 26 | This could be put to a variety of uses . |
| 27 | Those resources in property and money could be put to good use to top up the £23 million housing improvement programme allocation this year , the £12.5 million of estate action money , the £71 million of Housing Corporation money and the £15 million for the vacant dwellings initiative . |
| 28 | Alternatively the revision could be put to a referendum rather than to the " congress " . |
| 29 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 30 | And that answer fitted every question he was asked , as did his response to any poser that could be put to him ‘ thirty-five years ’ . |