Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He said he had no doubt that there was uncertainty amongst Protestants , which could be traced directly to recent comments by British ministers .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 This could be extended later to other agencies in the criminal justice system , but it has not yet been so extended .
5 Some patients in the Special Hospitals could be moved directly to ordinary NHS units if local services were prepared to bear even minimal risks .
6 And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Even more alluringly , the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise .
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