Example sentences of "could be [adv] [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where part of the site ( a substantial area ) could be environmentally improved by coaling or subsequent restoration ; |
| 2 | And , judging by the ABC 's World Cup ratings , the heightened interest in Australian rugby could be well served by night games . |
| 3 | The 5th and 30th are times when your feelings could be powerfully affected by events and with eclipses on the 9th and 24th , this is a month of heart-affecting revelations . |
| 4 | Buried in a box in the ground , the find was kept secret so that it could be properly excavated by Suffolk County 's archaeological department , headed by Judith Plouviez , the County Archaeology Officer . |
| 5 | Cassette tapes and rolls of film had to be posted the following day in envelopes that were tough enough not to burst and yet could be easily opened by customs officials . |
| 6 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 7 | Rub it right into the roots ! ’ which could be clearly heard by Matilda in her bedroom across the corridor . |
| 8 | In 27 patients ( 96.4% ) bleeding could be successfully managed by injection of norepinephrine and polidocanol , in repeated sessions if needed . |
| 9 | In the 1950s , Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall proposed the gate theory of pain , which held that the nerve impulses that conveyed the sensation of pain to the brain could be actively blocked by nerves in the spinal cord ( see Box ) . |
| 10 | Before quotas , about 50 per cent of the food energy going in to our dairy cows was in the form of cereals : food that could be directly used by man , because in those days it was cost-effective to get as much milk as possible out of individual cows . |
| 11 | The importance of this can be seen from the fact that the Thirty Tyrants who seized power briefly in 404–3 BC decreed that only 3000 citizens should retain the right to trial , while all others could be summarily executed by government order . |
| 12 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 13 | Since they were working with coordinators whose jobs were — at LEA insistence — properly specified , their anomalous position in the school could be severely aggravated by PNP . |
| 14 | The chronic nature of the symptoms , the benign appearance of the gastric lesions on endoscopy , and the equivocal histological aspect of the lesions account for the fact that numerous MALT lymphomas were considered ‘ pseudolymphomas ’ until the monoclonal nature of the proliferation could be routinely shown by immunochemistry . |
| 15 | Ballantyne wrote ‘ Coral Island ’ during the Empire and this influences Ballantyne 's view of what life alone on an island could be like experienced by children . |
| 16 | Similarly , a patient with dyspepsia would need an internal examination by a consultant because he might be suffering from an ulcer which could be quickly treated by drugs , preventing weeks of suffering . |