Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this nucleus , royal territory was in the future to expand to the point at which , in 1239 , the whole county could be annexed to the royal demesne . |
| 2 | preferred to play safe and order bodies which could be transferred to a narrow gauge system if the standard gauge system for which they were ordered proved a failure . |
| 3 | By 1983 these services accounted for almost £I billion of the annual budget and any savings made there could be transferred to the main activity of treating patients . |
| 4 | This was reinforced by the tendency of national governments not to handle unpopular decisions if they could be transferred to the High Authority for action . |
| 5 | From this it was concluded that , although the principles of identifying systemic information links by this method appeared sound and it could be achieved to a limited extent by using the facilities of a flat-file database , it would not be cost-effective to pursue without access to more sophisticated technology . |
| 6 | The existing international airport , at Subang outside Kuala Lumpur , could be converted to a domestic , cargo or military airport . |
| 7 | Some of it could be ascribed to a basic weakness in the Council of Ministers ' decision-making machinery . |
| 8 | For the authors of this study there was a clear expectation that individuals would commonly produce patterned responses which could be ascribed to a particular personality type . |
| 9 | As long as matter was considered to be inert , its motion could be ascribed to the divine will . |
| 10 | Freud thought it was difficult to see how communism could be generalized to the whole world , unless national rivalries could cope with aggression without full-scale wars . |
| 11 | He emphasized that peace had to be preserved for the entire human race and not for particular sections of it , pointing out that the word ‘ civilization ’ could be applied to a wide diversity of values . |
| 12 | This concept could be applied to the machine-readable database in very literal ways . |
| 13 | This principle could be applied to the current script recognition system to make best use of all available information . |
| 14 | Soviet leaders have not accepted that the essence of the Brezhnev initiative for the Gulf could be applied to the different strategic and military environment in which Afghanistan lies . |
| 15 | It was uncertain whether the methods developed to survey fossiliferous sediments could be applied to the deformed crystalline rocks which underlie so much of Scotland . |
| 16 | So sensitive was the occasion , approval had to be given by none other than the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury before Mr Hibbert could be exposed to the harsh winds of public controversy . |
| 17 | A false report of theft could be made to a next-door neighbour , perhaps to cover up for dealing with property wrongfully , and then the neighbour could make a genuine report to the police about the false theft , thereby causing police time to be wasted . |
| 18 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 19 | Payment could be made to the monarch himself or it could be made to the current holder of the office . |
| 20 | While there are some aspects of the redraft where it might be argued that the law has not been accurately expressed , there is no doubt that both its language and typography suggest that there are considerable improvements which could be made to the present drafting and printing of statutes in the UK . |
| 21 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 22 | To alleviate industry 's problems , the provision for small amounts of halons to be retained ‘ for essential uses ’ could be retained ‘ for essential uses ’ could be extended to the other products , Trippier suggested . |
| 23 | Now it seemed as if this ‘ law of parallelism ’ could be extended to the whole history of life on earth . |
| 24 | We are attracted to the idea that rights of access could be extended to the unenclosed uplands of Wales . |
| 25 | The first machines that could be connected to the public telephone networks were introduced in the 1950s , and at this point today 's enthusiasm for fax might have been expected to appear . |
| 26 | Vagrants were always discouraged , and those who were able to work , but were not willing to do so , could be sent to a local House of Correction . |
| 27 | If however the topic relates to a more limited area , documents could be sent to the relevant branch libraries ( see Appendix ) and to the District Library HQ . |
| 28 | The encrusted surfaces of Oulton 's canvases could be compared to the thick layering and tortured reworking of paint in the art of Kossoff or Auerbach , whose paintings evoke a continuous grappling with doubt , like the late works of Titian or Rembrandt . |
| 29 | Alternatively , the cost of the development work could be charged to an offshore company on a cost plus basis . |
| 30 | Payments could be limited to a maximum number of patients per general practitioner which would stop the protests that a single handed general practitioner with a list of 3000 in an area of high deprivation receives an extra £28 800 a year without any obligation to provide extra services . |