Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 14 | On Monday she had gone to her job — improbably she appeared to be a supervisor for a market research firm — as usual , and could be vouched for by colleagues there . |
| 15 | Dowty 's HQ at in Chaltenham is just fifty miles away and could be targetted for closure |
| 16 | One of the straps passed through a metal buckle fastened to the end of the other strap , and could be clamped in the buckle by rotation of a clamping lever forming part of the buckle . |
| 17 | And would n't w and could be redistributed round the network . |
| 18 | An open-work star map in stereographic projection ( known as the rete ) was in front of the tympan , and could be rotated by hand over the lines of altitude and azimuth . |
| 19 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 20 | Cross-denominational association of this sort in particular localities was not uncommon and could be reinforced through collaborative reformist and philanthropic action as in the common efforts for moral and civic improvement of such Quaker and Unitarian families in Birmingham as the Cadburys , Lloyds , Kenricks and others . |
| 21 | The negotiations took place over the course of a year between autumn 1990 and summer 1991 , and could be characterized as the centre progressively conceding to the demands of the republics for more independence . |
| 22 | They were numbered 489–493 and could be distinguished from the earlier batch by their black rubber rear wings . |
| 23 | Take care with application : if not applied properly they can chip off and could be swallowed by a child , which might not be harmful , but wo n't be very pleasant . |
| 24 | ( Catalogues of the Great Exhibition of 1851 commented that although the black walnut of North America produced wood which was of a rich purple-brown and could be obtained in very large plants , it was ‘ but little employed by the cabinet makers ’ in Great Britain ) . |
| 25 | Copies were sold to the public as souvenirs of the exhibition , and could be played on many contemporary record-players ( 51 ) . |
| 26 | The second , however , has not been seen in our study or in others and could be related to the possibility that gastric acid secretion might not necessarily be raised when NSAIDs are taken on longterm basis , three years in this study . |
| 27 | Erm and I think the tenants ' group came to us and , and asked us if we would set up an advice session for tenants moving out , which could be situated in the flats , and could be run on a regular basis . |
| 28 | In a statement , the foreign ministers said political and economic reforms in Poland and Hungary had made considerable progress but added : ‘ The process remains fragile and could be called into question by economic problems . |
| 29 | Conscripts were trained to a high pitch and could be called upon in war , not merely as reserves but as front-line troops . |
| 30 | I have , for example , a spare traverse of the Skye Ridge which must have high bargaining value and could be swopped for the Mamores , the Grey Corries , the Aonachs or similar . |