Example sentences of "it could [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | job if there 's gon na be an exercise or a they like it to be a real-life practical situation , almost like a simulation of the job rather than something that 's er for example if you were to do a case study , pragmatists would like it be in an insurance-related case study and it could be related to their job very . |
| 2 | Or it could be related to a third confounding variable such as personality and this latter variable related to risk of depression ( Figure 4.3C ) . |
| 3 | Alice 's parents did n't know about toxic shock , and the fact it could be related to using a tampon , but also the parents of some other children , other women did n't know either . |
| 4 | There were also jointed clay pipes , each one a tapering tube with lugs on its sides so that it could be tied to the next . |
| 5 | so that it could be sent to the folks in Inverness |
| 6 | This second interpretation of the originally American concept of search , and how it could be applied to Britain , sees the business more from the client 's point of view than that of the would-be consultant . |
| 7 | HCIMA 's technical Advisory Group ( TAG ) published a technical brief entitled BS5750 — Quality system Guidelines , designed to give an overview of British Standards ( BS ) 5750 and suggest how it could be applied to a hotel and catering operation . |
| 8 | If it works with melonoma it could be applied to all the other forms of cancer . |
| 9 | I immediately put the fern into our hospital , that is on the kitchen windowsill , a position in the public eye where it could be attended to by my of the family . |
| 10 | If it could be transferred to the road instead , even modest traffic would keep the road so warm that ice could never form . |
| 11 | Or even that it could be transferred to your ownership . ’ |
| 12 | Some of it could be ascribed to a basic weakness in the Council of Ministers ' decision-making machinery . |
| 13 | Would not my right hon. Friend be insulting British farmers if he were to suggest that he should decimate the financial support available to them so that it could be given to M. Delors for use as a slush fund for so-called cohesion — a bribe to the countries of southern Europe ? |
| 14 | From this it was concluded that , although the principles of identifying systemic information links by this method appeared sound and it could be achieved to a limited extent by using the facilities of a flat-file database , it would not be cost-effective to pursue without access to more sophisticated technology . |
| 15 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 16 | It could be said to be retrogressive — a return ( retreat ? ) to narrow Victorian child-rearing values — to be writing guidelines on how to encourage obedience and overcome disobedience in the late 1980s . |
| 17 | As a research project , it could be said to be one of the ‘ old-fashioned ’ kind ; it had to be done on a shoestring . |
| 18 | It could be likened to a carefully positioned set of film stills . |
| 19 | Payment could be made to the monarch himself or it could be made to the current holder of the office . |
| 20 | This is a deadly weapon and it could be resold to Iraq without our knowledge or consent . |
| 21 | It is harder to explain why the government involved the public in its actions than it is to explain why the various parties involved in the preparation of the rescript thought it could be turned to their advantage . |
| 22 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 23 | The machine could either stand on the threshing floor of an orthodox flail-threshing barn , which provided shelter from the weather , or it could be taken to the ricks in the fields . |
| 24 | Upstairs , Fleury had taken the pistol to pieces ( as far as it could be taken to pieces which did not seem to be very far ) and put it together again . |
| 25 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 26 | Some manufacturers guarantee CDs for only 30 years but Mr Bert Gall , general manager of optical systems at Philips , said the life of the average disc should be more than 1,000 years , though it could be reduced to 50 if manufacturing was poor and the discs were mistreated . |
| 27 | MEED cited the official , from the Agency for International Development ( USAID ) , as also hinting that US aid for fiscal 1991\92 was under review , and that " the contribution should be $24,000,000 , but now it could be reduced to $3,000,000 " . |
| 28 | A charge of manslaughter can still result in a custodial sentence although for a child as young as ten it could be reduced to a supervision order . |
| 29 | The Comber-Dundonald line on the other hand has much greater tourism potential , particularly if it could be linked to the Ice Bowl and Leisure Complex development at Dundonald . |
| 30 | The process could be halted here or it could be linked to a more comprehensive attempt at demilitarisation . |