Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , you could create the design for a simple piece of embroidery using small sprays of pressed flowers , or make an initial design from pressed flowers that could be transferred on to squared paper and used to embroider a handkerchief Both of these ideas would make marvellous presents , and you could perhaps place the finished embroidery in a tissue-lined box that has been decorated with pressed flowers or ribbons . |
| 2 | With new forms of planning restriction limiting the amount of suburban extension that could be tacked on to existing built-up areas , housing developers increasingly looked to the surrounding rings of smaller settlements lying within commuting distance of city centres . |
| 3 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 4 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 5 | While Fountains Abbey , the great Gothic ruin set in beautiful parkland , could naturally be transferred to the National Trust given a suitable endowment ( who would provide the millions needed for that ? ) , and Westminster Abbey 's Chapter House could be entrusted to the Church of England , it is uncertain whether some of the less glamourous archaeological sites could be hived off to local councils without risk to their future . |
| 6 | But while Stalin lived , Lysenko derived great power by espousing the politically seductive claim that characteristics acquired by one generation — in seeds and men — could be passed on to succeeding generations . |
| 7 | THE EC would almost certainly respond to any US tariff rise with duty increases of its own , the cost of which could be passed on to British consumers . |
| 8 | Even more alluringly , the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise . |