Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once the reforms really bite — signs would be a sharp rise in unemployment a far bigger influx of private western investment and radical currency reform — then it would be worth offering the sort of help that could sensibly be given to reforming debtors in Latin America : capitalization of interest payments above a certain share of export earnings . |
| 2 | The prolonged duration of reflux seen during pH monitoring or after a meal in PSS could thus be related to defective clearance or to a greater quantity of reflux . |
| 3 | Symptoms of hypotension include tiredness , light-headedness or dizziness and fainting , all of which could easily be attributed to other complaints . |
| 4 | Nor could the standing army be cut by building up a reserve since trained men , automatically liberated when drafted , could hardly be returned to enserfed villages . |
| 5 | But while it proposed interim restrictions on the consumption of HCFCs — used for making foam insulation — it stepped back from proposing to outlaw their production in the EC , from where they could still be exported to developing countries as a substitute to the much more harmful CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) in refrigerators and air conditioners . |
| 6 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |
| 7 | Note that a real problem usually involves men rather than one man and thus there are extensive man-man communication issues where few of the functions could conceivably be allocated to non-human mechanisms . |
| 8 | The same theory could now be applied to American golfers in their quest to win the Blue Ribband of American golf , the Masters . |
| 9 | Beck claimed that a stage had been reached where more cash could now be devoted to physical rather than intellectual aid and indicated that funding for the computerisation of Hungarian institutions would increase in priority . |
| 10 | Beck claimed that a stage had been reached where more cash could now be devoted to physical rather than intellectual aid and indicated that funding for the computerisation of Hungarian institutions would increase in priority . |
| 11 | P drivers could even be limited to low speeds . |
| 12 | Some of these patterns could undoubtedly be related to sexual activity ( for example , a male infection on the lower surface of a leg with a female infection on the upper surface of the corresponding leg ) , but sexual contact could not explain all of the distribution patterns . |
| 13 | If you multiply that up , that is £250,000 worth of money that could then be given to alternative developments . |
| 14 | In that case the panel might recommend reductions in funding , which could then be applied to other areas . |
| 15 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |