Example sentences of "[conj] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on to consider , however , whether the court 's jurisdiction over the question whether the housing authority had provided was only supervisory , or could be challenged in private law proceedings . |
| 2 | According to Nikolay Gubyenko , former USSR Minister of Culture , claims have already been lodged or could be lodged for 3,017,128 works of art . |
| 3 | Which aspects of black or female cultures are or could be incorporated into high status knowledge ? |
| 4 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 5 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 6 | Child benefit could be made taxable , or could be restricted to women whose children are not yet of school age . |
| 7 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 8 | The design can be knitted as a single motif of 80 stitches by 80 rows , could be doubled in size by using the double length and double width buttons for a very large rhino , or could be knitted as a savannah scene with a second single motif of a acacia thorn tree . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Examples of possible syllabic velar nasals would be ‘ thicken ’ ( where and are also possible ) , and ‘ broken key ’ , where the nasal consonant occurs between velar consonants ( again , or could be substituted for ) . |
| 11 | " In regard Janet NcCalman charmer hath not constant place of residence nor could be found by several church officers . |
| 12 | " In regard Janet NcCalman charmer hath not constant place of residence nor could be found by several church officers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In a speech to the 1915 Congress , the president , Mrs Barton , pointed to the example that could be followed by guildswomen : |
| 19 | Other scientists were more concerned with physics that could be studied on earth . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lord Sutherland told Maddison that life imprisonment was the only sentence that could be imposed on a murder charge . |
| 22 | ( A suling was a measure of land that could be ploughed by eight oxen and varies in size from manor to manor . ) |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 27 | Subject , however , to the limitations to which I have referred I do not see why any restriction should be placed on the type of order that could be made under section 6(2) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In short , of the rules and generalisations that could be made about conveying attitudes through intonation , those which are not actually wrong are likely to be too trivial to be worth learning . |
| 30 | An end-quarter exchange rate is used as interest lies in the gains that could be made over the period in which the yield differential held on average . |