Example sentences of "could be [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , it does appear that there , there 's problems on , on that corner of the Road bridge with , there could be weakening of that bridge , erm it could be erm disrupted . |
| 2 | Nothing nakedly visible , indeed not even a faltering step could be discerned during this event but the imprint was there , the unsettling moment had begun . |
| 3 | We estimate that approximately 30 of our units could be developed in this way . |
| 4 | For the import of the " new " sense of design which I have hypothesised could be developed from these sketches is its interaction with social forces — literally its forming of them . |
| 5 | The SE would be a hybrid ( and to this extent some of the original purpose of the SE has been lost ) ; it would be incorporated in a particular Member State , whose domestic laws would govern certain aspects of its operations ( e.g. insolvency ) , but its registered office could be transferred to another Member State . |
| 6 | Because almost all general locations round York could be could be fulfilled by that criterion . |
| 7 | Now in a language of potentially unlimited generative capacity , I fail to see how this could be achieved for all expressions across all patterns of combination in the first way described above . |
| 8 | By having the firms with low marginal reduction costs contract further and firms with high marginal reduction costs contract less , the same total reduction in pollution could be achieved at less cost . |
| 9 | Disbelief that closures could be achieved within these constraints was never to be wholly suspended and in important ways served to hamper the subsequent implementation process . |
| 10 | Written resolutions can not be used to remove directors and auditors , but the s 382B procedure would seem to be available , so that removal of a non-member director or the auditor without a meeting or without director or auditor representation could be achieved in that way . |
| 11 | Before percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology was attempted many groups had shown that a tissue diagnosis could be achieved in some patients with obstructive jaundice caused by malignancy by detecting neoplastic cells in duodenal aspiration . |
| 12 | Within this region , as Professor Hoskins suggested , there are various names and alignments which raise questions in the mind of any landscape historian , questions which could be asked of any part of England . |
| 13 | It was argued that a solicitor affected by this could be represented by another solicitor after exchange of contract , so that that other solicitor could give the report on title to the lender and receive the mortgage advance . |
| 14 | Philosophically , it could be argued in any case that most or all words present analogous difficulties , and need to be put in scare quotes ( " the 'topic' of this 'essay' is the 'issue' of the 'author's ' 'intentions ' " , etc . ) . |
| 15 | Up to £700 could be invested in these certificates . |
| 16 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 17 | If , in a time of reduced employment opportunities , unemployed people rather than more traditional seasonal workers are filling a share of seasonal jobs , and if they develop a pattern of working in this fashion , they could be penalised by these regulations ( see Hansard , 4/2/87 ) . |
| 18 | Taxes on alcohol and tobacco could be justified on these grounds . |
| 19 | A tax on — smoke or water-polluting production processes , or a higher tax on leaded petrol or a congestion tax on vehicles in city centres , or a duty on heavy lorries that badly damage road foundations , could be justified in these terms . |
| 20 | Board secretary John Morris said : ‘ The Board 's main consideration was whether the title should remain on ice or whether this contest could be accepted for that championship . |
| 21 | If successful , such techniques could be applied across many countries rather than those few which possess occupational data . |
| 22 | The same policy could be applied to all areas of communication , such as between the CBI and the Government , which Mr Davies described as ‘ quite a tricky business ’ . |
| 23 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 24 | She always loathed naturalistic and realist writing , and locates in Raymond Carver a ‘ grey … glum … discontented acquiescence ’ that could be applied to any number of British anaemic depressives . |
| 25 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 26 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 27 | But indeed , it could be applied in many places . |
| 28 | The debate on directorship could be applied in this field too , but the appointment to the service of a national director who is not a microbiologist illustrates the innovativeness of the organisation . |
| 29 | All the TARDIS sections were integrated , like a jigsaw , and could be arranged in any number of abstract ways without the visual suggestion of the set being lost . |
| 30 | The collected information could then be examined to identify any actual problems being experienced with the AL and these could be arranged in some order of priority . |