Example sentences of "it could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Meantime , it would greatly help if United Motors could see its way clear to build another factory in Ireland , particularly if it could be built in the South West , where the Prime Minister was having to face re-election in a year 's time . |
2 | Churchill , as Secretary of State for War , saw no need to veto a tunnel on military grounds and the Home Ports Defence Committee concluded that it could be defended from attack , albeit at high cost . |
3 | It could be done on the job using a National Council assessor . |
4 | Perhaps it could be done as an oratorio . |
5 | He taught us that it could be done without in normal circumstances . |
6 | ‘ Yes , it could be done under cover of darkness whilst Sir Gerard was lost in his own thoughts . ’ |
7 | He visited Edinburgh , saw what they were doing there , liked it and decided to see whether it could be done at Sussex and approached the university through the Bi-Medical Engineering Group , of which I 'm a member , and I was interested . |
8 | Whether it could be done with the thought-bubble … |
9 | If this could be done for one product , it could be done for others with their own market strategies and situations . |
10 | Or it could be done through fragmentation . |
11 | It could be done by combining a video shot of the user 's hands with the screen picture . |
12 | Of course , Alex old man , it could be done by an A.S.M. , but you do know the part so well , you could time it properly . |
13 | It could be done in half a day ; I mean , the cartage . ’ |
14 | The magistrate refused to allow the UK accredited representative to take the recording to London for read-out and insisted that it could be done in Italy . |
15 | By 1815 it could be done in fifteen hours . |
16 | It could be done in less than a week by men working with vigour , and mostly they did , for their own new lands looked to the forts for protection and warning . |
17 | The Liberal Democrats would make education up to 18 compulsory although much of it could be done in the workplace rather than just in schools and colleges . |
18 | He also had another er , what we call a journey waybill and that , he used to record on there at each termini he used to record the time and the ticket numbers that he 'd got in his rack at that particular time , so it could be seen between certain times that a ticket perhaps was sold between Witton and Rushmere Heath . |
19 | It could be seen as an attempt by the government to try to retain urban seats or , perhaps more accurately , as the reflection of a personal commitment towards the inner cities on the part of Peter Shore , Secretary of State for the Environment ( MacKay and Cox , 1979 ) . |
20 | As such it could be seen as an alternative to armed conflict , an alternative to blind acceptance of an unsatisfactory and perhaps explosive status quo in the control of disputed territory , and even as an alternative to democratic political methods of dispute resolution which can so often lead to legitimately and dangerously dissatisfied minorities . |
21 | From outside the Carter camp it could be seen as evidence that the twosome are having trouble finding new songs . |
22 | In so far as the ‘ southern enlargement ’ extended the European ideal , created a larger market for goods , and protected democracy it could be seen as a success . |
23 | But although it could be seen as the fashion of protest — ‘ what could be more defiant at a time of recession and social decay than seemingly lavish , luxurious clothes ? ’ |
24 | Honey 's work also presents difficulties for the viewer : on the surface it could be seen as a further exploitation of the female either as a child or a woman , but this would not do this work justice . |
25 | Two years before , in BBC v. Hearn ( 1977 ) , trade union officials had threatened that their workers would refuse to allow the BBC to televise the cup final so that it could be seen in South Africa , because of the union 's disapproval of the racial policies of the government of that country . |
26 | Treves wrote : ‘ As a specimen of humanity , Merrick was ignoble and repulsive ; but the spirit of Merrick , if it could be seen in the form of the living , would assume the figure of an upstanding and heroic man , smooth browed and clean of limb , and with eyes that flashed undaunted courage . ’ |
27 | It could be seen in some cases as , maybe escapism , we do n't give enough thought to the wife and kids who 've got dad er , er , in in court . |
28 | It does not come in an envelope and it could be seen by anyone in the office which may , in itself , help to achieve its purpose . |
29 | It could be seen from these that the problems faced by Eastern European museums since the decline of the socialist regimes are strikingly similar . |
30 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |