Example sentences of "what could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching Richard Arthurs was a lesson to us all , but what could be said about Ian Harrison ? ! |
| 2 | There are cases where technical terms are conventionally used , but add nothing to what could be said in simpler ways : e.g. etymology simply means ‘ the history of a word ’ , and morphology simply means ‘ word structure , . |
| 3 | This might be interpreted as an indication that it is not his purpose or intention to present a systematic , coherent and consistent Advaitin account of the concept of Truth or God after the fashion of Śankara , the principal exponent of non-dualism , and that what could be said concerning the metaphysical basis of his thought is that although it purports to be Advaitin it does not preclude the possibility of Dvaita , or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaita , or qualified non-Dualist interpretations of the nature of reality . |
| 4 | Name had reached a ceiling on what could be achieved under present arrangements ; |
| 5 | There had been pressure from the Tourist Board and Turkish TV crews to start the rafting trip from a particularly scenic and dramatic place and the guides misjudged what could be achieved with a novice crew . |
| 6 | David decided to test out the conditions — his ten years of experience showed us what could be achieved with practice . |
| 7 | But in practical terms of what could be achieved in the time-scales envisaged , with new contracts due to be signed between the privatized generating and distribution companies by the end of 1989 , nuclear power was the only option for large chunks of capacity . |
| 8 | Thanks to her acquired confidence in what could be achieved in the hypnotic state , Sylvia readily agreed . |
| 9 | The letters between Miller and Bartram show what could be achieved by patience and forbearance two hundred years ago . |
| 10 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 11 | This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant . |
| 12 | In this respect Ferguson thought that the Warner Bros film was a good indication of what could be achieved by Hollywood when it tackled social problems honestly and he summed it up by returning to one of his favourite points about Hollywood that ‘ even half a loaf on the national stomach is at least nourishment taken in ’ . |
| 13 | For example , Williams calculated the cost per QALY of a range of health care interventions and divided them into ‘ strong candidates for expansion ’ and ‘ less strong candidates for expansion ’ 1 to illustrate what could be achieved by using available data and to argue for further refinements . |
| 14 | He contrasted their lot with what could be achieved by senior people who had the benefit of Share Option Schemes . |
| 15 | The quota , in short , forced some British filmmakers to be realistic about the economic constraints operating in British filmmaking , and to look to what could be achieved within them rather than simply hoping that film budgets could rise on some magic carpet to figures close to those of Hollywood pictures . |
| 16 | As the Minority Report put it : ‘ The national Authority dealing with the able-bodied requires … what we might almost term a Human Sorting House , where each man 's faculties would be tested to see what could be made of him ; and a series of Training Establishments , to one or other of which the heterogeneous residuum of Unemployed would be assigned . ’ |
| 17 | Liam Murphy was now what could be called in any circumstances a rich man . |
| 18 | In their understandable anxiety to save what could be saved of Greek life by cooperating with the Romans , Polybius and , we must add , Posidonius , had left unexplored the most solid substructures of the Roman-Italian complex . |
| 19 | He began to ask me what the realities were of his medical situation and his prognosis — what could be hoped for in the best of circumstances . |
| 20 | As will be seen from the example below , the drama can be far removed from what could be recognised as a child-centred activity : |
| 21 | Everything was much harder work because there was no light , no hot water ( except what could be heated on a stove ) , no washing facilities and nowhere that was warm . |
| 22 | In general , Beccaria 's philosophy exhibits what could be regarded as a curious combination of concern with the rights of the individual under the social contract on the one hand , and utilitarian reductivism on the other — curious because rights theory and utilitarianism are often thought to be philosophically incompatible . |
| 23 | Well do you think actually so to make it more What could be done to actually make it more attractive to traders ? |
| 24 | Minor revenue posts , and as in this case , even the location of rented office space , were one of the more effective methods of impressing the members of a town council with what could be done for them , or to them . |
| 25 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 26 | Nigel Lawson showed what could be done with it . |
| 27 | Services were often inadequate and expensive , because the Treasury had refused to provide money for investment ; managers were full of ideas of what could be done with new and cost-cutting technology . |
| 28 | Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was . |
| 29 | Museums like the Science Museum now built up collections of enormous value to the historian of science , for the provenance of the pieces is known , and we can only judge past science when we know what could be done with the tools available . |
| 30 | What could be done with any realizations ? |