Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoarding at the entrance to the sliproad leading off the A643 five miles out of Mainz warned of the penalties which could be imposed on any unauthorized personnel attempting to gain illegal entry into the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant a mile further down the road . |
| 2 | The other side of the coin was the pressure which could be exerted upon such foreign soldiers if they attempted to come home to vote in an election in opposition to a man of influence . |
| 3 | It is not put forward as a definitive model for how coping , support and events interrelate in the genesis of psychiatric disorder , because the issues are so complex that the diagram could be redrawn in several different ways and indicate several other likely relationships . |
| 4 | With the latest single , ‘ Until You Find Out ’ ( which is typically raucous and sweetly nasty affair and their last release for Chapter 22 before signing a distribution deal with CBS ) , the Neds could be posed for some real chart action . |
| 5 | With the latest single , ‘ Until You Find Out ’ ( which is typically raucous and sweetly nasty affair and their last release for Chapter 22 before signing a distribution deal with CBS ) , the Neds could be posed for some real chart action . |
| 6 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |
| 7 | Before 1885 lashes could be inflicted in ordinary cattle-stealing cases . |
| 8 | This innovation allowed ministers to prescribe the maximum local rate that could be levied by particular local authorities . |
| 9 | Any new vein discovered , but left unwrought for the space of six months after notice was given by the estate to the captain or purser of the mine , could be licenced to any other person to work . |
| 10 | The development officer took the decision about whether or not a client needed a support worker by considering whether his or her basic needs ( for food , cleanliness , warmth , sleep , safety ) were being fulfilled , and if not , whether they could be fulfilled by existing informal or formal carers . |
| 11 | Two or three cameras , mounted on tripods , could be placed in three select committee rooms and in two used by standing committees , and some upgrading of the lights was required in those rooms when the cameras were in use , but the aim was to make as few changes as possible during the experimental period . |
| 12 | We have publicly stated that we believe the Government should address this issue sooner rather than later and have suggested that a flexible approach to State pension age could be achieved with little additional cost to the State . |
| 13 | Whether it was the Vietminh , the Binh Xuyen , or , most likely , Trotskyists , who were responsible , it obviously shattered any confidence that the restoration of French power could be achieved without such savage resistance . |
| 14 | These have been used for surveys of ruined areas in North Africa with , in the view of the archaeologists , a success rate better than could be achieved by any other aerial platform . |
| 15 | Replacing new genes for old — homologous recombination — is now feasible in animal cells , but the technology requires a great deal of refinement before such a feat could be achieved in human somatic cells . |
| 16 | What kind of private life could be imagined for this dried-up bundle of chilblains and nasal catarrh ? |
| 17 | In addition this ban could be applied to all political parties in a locality for up to three months . |
| 18 | But I would like to note in passing that Mrs. Campbell-Fisher 's observation could be applied to all second-order experiences , not just the arts . |
| 19 | For example , Prentky , in his book Creativity and Psychopathology , tabulates the probable psychiatric diagnoses that could be applied to certain eminent writers , artists , scientists and composers . |
| 20 | A higher standard of planning control could be applied to these designated areas , with special consideration given to the height and bulk of buildings , materials , colours , vertical or horizontal emphasis and the grain of design . |
| 21 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 22 | Copies were sold to the public as souvenirs of the exhibition , and could be played on many contemporary record-players ( 51 ) . |
| 23 | The existence of the standard meant that any Red Book disc could be played on any Red Book player , anywhere in the world . |
| 24 | Extremely powerful local area networks will be needed to handle the kinds of data volumes that could be involved at any given moment . |
| 25 | Additions could be made to existing New Towns around London , particularly Stevenage and Harlow , but also at Basildon , Crawley and Hemel Hempstead , and also to a dozen other towns in the South-east , all of which offered scope for an expansion of at least 30,000 population : Aylesbury , Banbury , Bedford , Chelmsford , Colchester , Hastings , Maidstone , Medway Towns , Norwich , Poole , Reading and Southend . |
| 26 | For instance , Swordfish Pilaki could easily be made with halibut or cod and the Tuna Tortiglioni could be made with any other fish or indeed some ham cut into pieces . |
| 27 | The authors note that no corrections could be made for other confounding variables that might lead to miscarriage in women who smoke and they caution against overinsterpretation of the apparent effect of one single variable in IVF-ET . |
| 28 | The committee agreed that a single system was desirable , and suggested ways in which it could be implemented without excessive financial or administrative difficulty . |
| 29 | Managing director Tim Hely Hutchinson said that the profitability of the publishing business , together with the contribution from Bookpoint , was now such that its organic growth plans could be funded without significant net cash usage . |
| 30 | Competitive tendering could be extended to certain medical services as well . |