Example sentences of "[conj] could [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child benefit could be made taxable , or could be restricted to women whose children are not yet of school age . |
| 2 | Within aristocratic and mercantile societies , conflicts about style and tendency , as well as more general social and economic tensions and conflicts in arts practice , were often resolved , or could be attempted to be resolved , by movement from one patron or kind of patron or intermediary to another . |
| 3 | If that were true , it would constitute a general economic as well as social rationale for higher education , and one that could be related to all of Lawton 's eight headings . |
| 4 | But for its lack of references , which surely are essential for the chapters on spectroscopy , the book that could be said to be the best is Ralph and Joan Fessenden 's Organic Chemistry ( Willard Grant , 2nd ed ) . |
| 5 | For the majority of the SSAPs , however , it is possible to identify elements that could be said to be relevant . |
| 6 | And I think the main question , and the best question that could be asked to the audience if they really |
| 7 | Before the Second World War , there were , apart from those from the Royal Humane Society and Society for the Protection of Life from Fire , no appropriate awards that could be given to civilians who had performed outstanding or exceptional deeds of bravery ( the George Cross and George Medal were not instituted until World War II ) . |
| 8 | I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army . |
| 9 | Probably the first piece of advice that could be given to any new practitioner is that whilst a friend may be a client , a client should never become a friend , for an easy transition from a client to a friend can often lead to serious problems and difficulties . |
| 10 | Sports groups said it would mean the loss of open space that could be given to the public . |
| 11 | Imagine the mayhem that could be caused to your ear-drums by amateur attempts at Nessun Dorma , made famous by Pavarotti . |
| 12 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 13 | Will he warn the British people of the damage that could be done to them and the danger to their way of life and democracy ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What he wanted was wide open spaces that could be converted to one of his new-style holiday camps , offering bargain , trouble-free holidays for the whole family . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | The use of investment tax credits , so that firms can offset some of the cost of capital equipment against corporation tax liability , is one instrument that could be assigned to this target . |
| 18 | She always loathed naturalistic and realist writing , and locates in Raymond Carver a ‘ grey … glum … discontented acquiescence ’ that could be applied to any number of British anaemic depressives . |
| 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 difficulty is that Mercier 's brushwork , and an essential freedom in his style , does not lend itself to the same kind of minute scrutiny that could be applied to a painter like Zoffany . |
| 21 | And Skillbase markets their skills to other organisations as well , calling it ‘ executive leasing ’ ( or for highest positions ‘ interim management ’ — perhaps a term that could be applied to Sir Len Peach 's stint at the NHS ) . |
| 22 | That the similar material produced under Æthelred may reflect badly , rather than well , upon his administration is a conclusion that could be applied to Cnut too . |
| 23 | The Americans would have thousands of surplus transport aircraft that could be turned to civil use , and a well-developed transport aircraft industry ; the British , on the other hand , would have virtually none . |
| 24 | The Spanish victory of Bailén ( July 1808 ) was the inevitable consequence of Napoleon 's belief that the conquest of Spain was a police operation that could be entrusted to inferior troops . |
| 25 | In South Wales the part of the winter that could be devoted to training was confined to the pre-Christmas period because of the January start to ground preparation for the early potato crop . |
| 26 | Despite the recent debate on VDU health hazards , which has raged furiously on both sides of the Atlantic , Cox report that ‘ there are no radiation levels that could be considered to be of concern to the normal individual ’ ( Displays Technology and Applications , vol 4 , p 7 ) . |
| 27 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
| 28 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 29 | While in the case of the press alternatives were difficult to find , in that of radio other stations existed that could be listened to if the national station was found to be boring or did not cater for listeners ' tastes . |
| 30 | He has often told friends he would like to write and he obviously has the creativity that could be adapted to another form of expression . |