Example sentences of "it could be [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be done on the job using a National Council assessor . |
| 2 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 3 | It could be relied on . |
| 4 | Trevor Isles who 's Deputy Clerk to the Justices in north Oxfordshire is also confident the unit fine system will be fairer , he says ‘ if successful , it could be adopted on a national scale ’ . |
| 5 | There are several reasons for this ‘ regression towards the mean ’ ; it could be based on a genetic process , or it could be because a father ( mother ) who is above the mean in ability marries on average someone who is less able than he ( she ) , and so the child , reflecting the ability of both parents , is less able than the father ( mother ) . |
| 6 | Naturally , with the increasing prosperity of Scotland in the course of the eighteenth century , the value of minor private patronage diminished , but it could be replaced on occasion by alternatives , and at no time did the agents of administration control all available employment . |
| 7 | However , that agenda did have the advantage that it could be developed on an evolutionary basis , and that further innovations could be incorporated without major upheaval . |
| 8 | The hard drive should be connected to its mounting by four screws or it could be mounted on drive rails . |
| 9 | Enriched uranium would be produced commercially at the Navy-run Aramar research centre at Ipero in Sao Paulo state from January 1990 , and Pinheiro da Silva considered it feasible that it could be produced on an industrial scale by 1997 to supply Brazil 's nuclear reactors . |
| 10 | If there had been a decline , it could be blamed on social factors : ‘ We have witnessed a diminishing of collectivist morality because of the promotion of this nonsensical notion of the individual . |
| 11 | Thus this pool of resources could be invested in working capital , in fixed assets , or in financial assets ; or it could be spent on wages , supplies , or overheads ; or it could be distributed as dividends or used to repay debt . |
| 12 | They say : It could be spent on more deserving cases . |
| 13 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 14 | What was new about the Ro-railer was that it could be used on both rails and road . |
| 15 | Such people would always have been willing to subordinate their political action to unionist unity , if it could be recreated on a sound basis . |
| 16 | Bathing , for instance , had to be forbidden along the fashionable coastline ; some ecologists even suggested that Estonian drinking water was so polluted it could be set on fire ! |
| 17 | ‘ It could be forced on us . |