Example sentences of "and could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dowty 's HQ at in Chaltenham is just fifty miles away and could be targetted for closure |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And would n't w and could be redistributed round the network . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were numbered 489–493 and could be distinguished from the earlier batch by their black rubber rear wings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( 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 ) . |
| 13 | Copies were sold to the public as souvenirs of the exhibition , and could be played on many contemporary record-players ( 51 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Conscripts were trained to a high pitch and could be called upon in war , not merely as reserves but as front-line troops . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Growing up was much harder than was ever said , involving , as it must , both the practised , clinical coldness to which she aspired combined with a proper sense of pity when it was called for and could be expressed with dignity and without embarrassment to the parties concerned . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , giant Hull prop Ian Marlow is out of Saturday 's Regal Trophy semi-final match with Wigan and could be joined by at least five other pack colleagues . |
| 21 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 22 | It would also appear that the rule applies to realty and could be applied to the builder of a house and possibly a local authority building inspector . |
| 23 | There are so many suffixes that it will only be possible here to examine a small proportion of them ; we will concentrate on those which are common and productive ( that is , are applied to a considerable number of stems and could be applied to more to make new English words ) . |
| 24 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 25 | It is a question of management policy what terms are quoted and could be based on any of the following systems : |
| 26 | They have regularly been used to put pressure on management during major negotiations , and could be said to be part of the ritual of collective bargaining . |
| 27 | All the TARDIS sections were integrated , like a jigsaw , and could be arranged in any number of abstract ways without the visual suggestion of the set being lost . |
| 28 | Conversely , as the ( mainly Italian ) school of ‘ criminal anthropology ’ purported to prove , the criminal , the anti-social , the socially underprivileged , belonged to a different and inferior human strain from the ‘ respectable ’ , and could be recognised as such by measuring the skull or in other simple ways . |
| 29 | However , the latter 's impact was extremely superficial and could be explained on the grounds of the familiarity of Koreans ‘ with the laws of their quondam masters ’ . |
| 30 | Such a commodity , once acceptable , performed the role of a medium of exchange and could be regarded as money . |