Example sentences of "[noun sg] could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Board secretary John Morris said : ‘ The Board 's main consideration was whether the title should remain on ice or whether this contest could be accepted for that championship . |
| 2 | A cream blouse and skirt could be seen through the window . |
| 3 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 4 | The San Jose Mercury News , which reported the story , citing documents filed this month with the US Securities & Exchange Commission , noted that it was unclear whether the settlement was triggered by an existing employment agreement or was offered by Santa Cruz in an attempt to get the case out of the way so the stock offering could be pursued without controversy . |
| 5 | The San Jose Mercury News , which reported the story last week citing documents filed this month with the US Securities and Exchange Commission , noted that it was unclear whether the settlement was triggered by an existing employment agreement or was offered by SCO in an attempt to get the case out of the way so the stock offering could be pursued without controversy . |
| 6 | The horse could be left at the local inn and its owner would soon come looking for it . |
| 7 | Nos. 36 and 51 , retained at Sutton for short workings , were transferred to Penge , as any car from that batch could be sent to Sutton at short notice when required . |
| 8 | Once established , structured talk could be mastered with less thought . |
| 9 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 10 | By and large , the occasions when the nobility might exploit a situation as cavalry and those when artillery could be used to best effect were not the same . |
| 11 | Timbmet 's solicitors will try to argue that because the wood was dead no harm could be caused by it 's sale . |
| 12 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 13 | This analogy could be extended to the source and application of funds statement . |
| 14 | The Deputy Minister of Justice announced that adultery could be punished by death by stoning , theft , by amputation of the hand or foot , and drinking alcohol , by up to 80 lashes . |
| 15 | Arnold Kaech did have one advantage denied to William Arbuthnot ; his monument could be landed on the spot by helicopter . |
| 16 | If the British governments of the 1980s had been elected by proportional representation , it is almost unthinkable that any party could have gained a sufficient majority to impose the sweeping reforms instituted by Mrs Thatcher — or that decisive government of any hue could be achieved in the future . |
| 17 | On the other hand , in the case of his daughter and the justification offered for taking her life , it might be argued that , similar acts of violence could be justified on the grounds that the ultimate goal is the redemption of souls . |
| 18 | De Klerk declared that the point had now been reached when the " remaining vestiges of violence could be countered with the ordinary laws of the land " , except in Natal , where the " destruction of human life and property " and what he described as the " exceptionally high level of intimidation which exists there " had " assumed shocking proportions " and needed to be countered " by the strongest means available " . |
| 19 | The bomb , he believed , could not be destroyed by counter bombs any more than violence could be countered by violence . |
| 20 | Evans had also provided a note of some cases from other countries where crimes of violence could be associated with the playing of such games . |
| 21 | For instance , a particular user ID could be prohibited from getting at the disk drives or the network , or from using the PC at all during certain hours . |
| 22 | The ego is the executive agency , the id could be regarded as something like the Congress , as o which er seen as a , as a large mass of conflicting demands . |
| 23 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 24 | Though sites around the Scottish coast could be used for any plans by oil companies to adopt the technique for UK waters , he predicted that the first deep-water application of the method would be in the Norwegian sector and Brazilian waters . |
| 25 | Carbon could be stored in empty gas fields |
| 26 | Soon a new strain of oxygen-mediating species arose , enabling evolution to proceed as fast as carbon could be buried in the sediment . |
| 27 | If this were true the decreased chance of conception could be explained by difficulties in timing of insemination , because timing may be less precise and therefore less successful in women with less regular cycles . |
| 28 | If the meaning of ‘ god ’ can be developed to be as flexible and free from the restrictions and constraints of earlier teachings and convictions as has been the development of medical science , then the future could be looked to with confidence and hope . |
| 29 | The failure to account for pyloric loss and duodenogastric reflux means that any true change in gastric secretion could be masked by changes in transpyloric fluid flux ; the effect of swallowed saliva is at present impossible to correct for . |
| 30 | Thus quite considerable amounts of labour could be generated by demand for private health and education provision . |