Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not come to much : but it was perhaps essential before Britain obtained major allies to believe that somehow a revolutionary movement could be incited to grow in occupied Europe . |
| 2 | Bruce Grobbelaar is still fighting to shake off a hamstring strain in time for tomorrow 's Anfield clash with Middlesbrough , but manager Graeme Souness could be tempted to continue with Mike Hooper , who impressed against Spartak . |
| 3 | To date , each system uses models of sounds uttered by one person , but could be developed to cope with anyone speaking in one language or accent . |
| 4 | A set of reverse transformations could be developed to deal with problems 2 and 3 . |
| 5 | The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain . |
| 6 | Management ought to look at the work that you do and that you could be asked to do under any contractual ‘ flexibility ’ provisions before finally deciding upon the groups of people from which redundancy candidates will be sought . |
| 7 | Although those figures are very encouraging , does my hon. Friend agree that an awful lot of older vehicles could be converted to run on unleaded petrol but that people are ignorant of that fact ? |
| 8 | The ‘ conglomerate ’ regression equation could be assumed to apply to Panaragua . |
| 9 | However , she could be made to leave with a month 's notice if another licensee agreed to take on a 20-year lease there . |
| 10 | J. B. Watson in 1914 and other behaviourist thinkers ( Hull , Skinner ) believed that an acquired behaviour element , the conditioned reflex for example , could be made to account for all behaviour , because such an element could be treated as a ‘ building block in theory much in the same way that nineteenth-century physicists used ‘ atoms ’ to build up a theory of matter . |
| 11 | The pursuit of fantasy solutions has repeatedly drained energy from the much more difficult business of pursuing workable models for change which are rooted in what actually happens and could be made to happen in our schools . |
| 12 | All might preserve some religious truth and meaning , but none could be allowed to make any absolute claims , though each would be acceptable to the extent — but only to the extent — that it conformed or could be made to conform to the standard of natural religion , conceived of as a set of beliefs or principles which could stand very well on their own feet . |
| 13 | The vessel was built like a fish and its mouth could be made to protrude from the water . |
| 14 | The optimum ramp gradient and stepping rate limit depend on the number of steps to be executed ( see following example ) and , in principle , the function generator characteristics could be made to depend on the target position information . |
| 15 | In due course it became apparent that all of mathematics could be made to rest upon a set-theoretic base . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , something like classes had always existed , as assumed in The German Ideology , the first edition of The Communist Manifesto , and Formen , then the principles developed by Marx in Capital could be made to apply to all societies . |
| 17 | It was not the general labourers but the seamen and other groups which could be made to believe in their immediate bargaining power which led the new militancy from the winter , not of 1889 , but of 1888 . |
| 18 | James Baker , the Chief of Staff , was a natural compro-miser happy to settle for half a loaf as long as it could be made to look like a victory for the president . |
| 19 | That could be made to look like abuse of his authority at a subsequent inquiry . |
| 20 | To personalise it , the little figures in the bus could be made to look like the children at the party . |
| 21 | ‘ I read somewhere that even if every atom in the universe could be made to function as a flipflop switch in a binary computer , it still would n't be big enough to follow all the possible routes that the universe could create . ’ |
| 22 | And its significance lay in Bentham 's demonstration that the very design of an organisation 's physical setting could be made to function as one of its instruments of social control . |
| 23 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 24 | Financial control was centralized under one accounting officer , the Permanent Under-Secretary for Defence , with subordinate Deputy Under-Secretaries to oversee the individual Service votes , which were still retained for administrative convenience , but could be adjusted to conform to Defence , as opposed to single Service , priorities . |
| 25 | So like yourself , you 've got a daughter , who perhaps fifteen , twenty years ' time , will be getting married , at which point the policy could be surrendered to put towards the cost of the wedding . |
| 26 | For the idea that a lawyer could be appointed to act as a legal expert to decide all types of disputes arising under a contract , see 6.9.3 . |
| 27 | The term ‘ ecology ’ could be used as an umbrella to cover a wide range of research traditions that did not interact at the detailed level , but which could be seen to deal with one aspect or another of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 28 | By and large , however , they argued that the behaviour of the electorate was shaped less by their stance to particular policy issues and more by generalised attitudes and beliefs about the party 's " image " , and they specifically pointed out " how little the mass of voters could be said to respond to the policy alternatives at Westminster in judging the claims of the rival parties " . |
| 29 | Franklin Roosevelt could be said to fall into the former category , but it should not be forgotten that he took office at a moment of great crisis in American history and was aided by unusually large majorities in both houses of the legislature . |
| 30 | But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification . |