Example sentences of "[that] could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial examination of the requirement was based on the categories derived in the earlier analysis , which produced some tentative conclusions about the type of records that could be held on a computer , and the potential advantages that could be gained . |
| 2 | The interest rates are calculated in the way required by the Consumer Credit Act and do not take into account any tax relief that could be gained for a home improvements loan . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , an awareness that Japan was acutely vulnerable to threats of superior force , a resentment that Japan was considered inferior because she did not conform to Western standards and models , and a perception that other nations were prepared to act ‘ unfairly ’ to maximize the advantages that could be gained from any particular situation , made Japan determined to achieve equal status with the so-called Great Powers , or indeed , to surpass them . |
| 4 | Furthermore , if the recently reported patency rates of 85% obtained with front-loaded alteplase and conjunctive intravenous heparin can be linked with strategies to prevent reocclusion , the potential additional benefit that could be gained with engineered plasminogen activators might only be marginal . |
| 5 | Whatever one thinks about this draft — and most lawyers who have studied it reckon it to be reasonably good , though it grants the president extensive powers that could be abused — the real issue has been how to get it adopted as Russia 's new constitution . |
| 6 | With the development of appropriate piston corers in the late 1940s it was possible to collect columns of sediment 10–30 m in length which contained material that could be dated by radiometric and other means and could also provide environmental information , for example by analysing the frequency of sensitive foraminifera . |
| 7 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 8 | In Gouda a city-centre network of tactile strips of ribbed paving stones that could be followed by those using a stick proved adequate for elderly and chairbound users , but the blind could not manage without assistance ( Figure 8.6 ) . |
| 9 | In a speech to the 1915 Congress , the president , Mrs Barton , pointed to the example that could be followed by guildswomen : |
| 10 | Other scientists were more concerned with physics that could be studied on earth . |
| 11 | Colonial administrators began to restrict the natives ' access to species that could be killed for food by establishing reserves where hunting was only permitted under licence . |
| 12 | John Lade , later to be MP for Southwark , shortly after the passage of the Abjuration Act of 1702 , said " that his friends , meaning the Jacks , were milksops for kicking at oaths , asserting they should never be able to do anything if they , his friends , did not take all the oaths that could be imposed " . |
| 13 | Lord Sutherland told Maddison that life imprisonment was the only sentence that could be imposed on a murder charge . |
| 14 | On the one hand , there are many topics that could be experimented on that are barred by ethical considerations . |
| 15 | ( A suling was a measure of land that could be ploughed by eight oxen and varies in size from manor to manor . ) |
| 16 | Does my hon. Friend agree that such an arrangement would not only broaden the health services already made available to patients but achieve financial savings that could be ploughed back into the provision of other services ? |
| 17 | Several organisations pointed out how , for certain large events , they made arrangements with local colleges which run such courses to offer work during term time that could be integrated into the teaching programme . |
| 18 | It was introduced to the market at just the right time , when demand for coloured sinks of complex shape that could be integrated into an overall design scheme was just beginning to emerge . |
| 19 | And er I was determined that er we would n't lose hold of this claim because it was a good claim , it was a logical claim , it was one that could be answered by the management and could be er er put into effect without any delay in time . |
| 20 | And filled in a registration form that could be checked on . |
| 21 | ‘ The worst mistake that could be made is for the rich to apply conditionality to new aid and loans . ’ |
| 22 | Everything that could be made of iron was , from the churchyard fence and gates to the interior columns and arches , the window tracery and door frames , and even the pinnacles on the tower . |
| 23 | Chapman told them it was not a decision that could be made by the club . |
| 24 | Consequently , a Filing Working Party was established and , alter extensive examination of the reference construction , it was found that the only changes considered viable ( ie that could be made without having to completely revise the titles of some 60,000 active files ) were to the first three fields of the reference structure , establishing the basis for a limited computerised search facility in the proposed index system , rather than the extensive facilities envisaged by the FAOR Team . |
| 25 | They would rather ring for a cab for you , or even give you a lift home , than have to deal with any attack that could be made on you on your lonely way home . |
| 26 | A big pie was not something that could be made in a field and cooked on a bonfire , it would require skill and expertise in the use of large ovens and these were available as they were used by the local manufacturers of earthenware pipes : |
| 27 | The counts of Champagne were quick to realise the lucrative sources of income that could be made from these fairs and dropped any inhibiting feudal dues , guaranteed the safety of the merchants and generally policed the fairs . |
| 28 | The Woolwich feared that failure to make the payment would damage its reputation and that any penalties that could be enforced if the Regulations were valid would exceed the return that could be made by investing the sum . |
| 29 | In condemning such acts of desecration , I am of the opinion that the only exception that could be made is in the case of books already seriously incomplete and in bad condition , when the completion of its unhappy disintegration may be forgivable . |
| 30 | It 's the type of injury that could be made much worse if he plays . |