Example sentences of "it could [be] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.

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1 There were also jointed clay pipes , each one a tapering tube with lugs on its sides so that it could be tied to the next .
2 so that it could be sent to the folks in Inverness
3 If it could be transferred to the road instead , even modest traffic would keep the road so warm that ice could never form .
4 Payment could be made to the monarch himself or it could be made to the current holder of the office .
5 The machine could either stand on the threshing floor of an orthodox flail-threshing barn , which provided shelter from the weather , or it could be taken to the ricks in the fields .
6 The Comber-Dundonald line on the other hand has much greater tourism potential , particularly if it could be linked to the Ice Bowl and Leisure Complex development at Dundonald .
7 Montgomery wanted a reconnaissance of this stretch of bunkers and anti-tank ditches to see if it was being put into a state of defence and if it could be outflanked to the south .
8 Looking at Figure 3.25(b) , it could be added to the MODULE relation , if we knew that the ‘ status ’ intermediate carried 11 unit-points .
9 If there has to be a last minute addition to the contract after the document has been prepared and is awaiting exchange , it could be written into the draft contract before exchange , or some reference to it could be added to the contract so long as all that was done with the authority of the parties who signed it .
10 The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage .
11 The remaining two immortals ( other than Deng himself ) , Peng Zhen ( 90 ) and Vice-President Whang Zhen ( 84 ) , were thought to favour reform as long as it could be confined to the sphere of economics rather than politics , a position similar to Deng 's own .
12 Grace 's mast was fifteen foot of blackened pine , fitted into a tabernacle , so that it could be lowered to the deck in the days when Grace negotiated the twenty-eight tideway bridges between Richmond and the sea .
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