Example sentences of "which could [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is recognized that this might cause expenditure problems in telephone expense but , if it is sited in the library , it is under constant supervision and control , which would preclude unauthorized use of the telephone system and allow a proper accounting system of telephone costs , which could be charged to the per capita of the department using the system , similar to the way in which Rank Xerox is administered . |
| 2 | The intention was to produce a quality system and procedure which could be accredited to BS 5750 . |
| 3 | There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame . |
| 4 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 5 | The only improvements which could be made to them are minor ones . |
| 6 | While there are some aspects of the redraft where it might be argued that the law has not been accurately expressed , there is no doubt that both its language and typography suggest that there are considerable improvements which could be made to the present drafting and printing of statutes in the UK . |
| 7 | The Floating Church for Seamen was not the only example … there were inventions that might also serve God : the pews for the use of the deaf , for example , which could be connected to the pulpit with gutta-percha pipes . |
| 8 | I hope all local areas will think about acquiring a stock of good movement photographs of local people which could be sent to the press in support of a feature — many local papers are cutting back on the expense of sending photographers out to events but are delighted to use suitable contributions . |
| 9 | The presence of two different guanine-nucleotide exchange proteins in the same complex questions their respective physiological roles , which could be related to their specific N-ter domains . |
| 10 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 11 | And that would give you all the information erm on a daily basis which could be referred to erm performance by performance . |
| 12 | When one hears of the hardships which could be caused to the high salaried , then surely in this country which claims to be Christian , we face not a political problem , but a moral one . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the power to make an order under section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 was not confined to documents which could be said to be necessary to reconstitute the state of the company 's knowledge , even if that might be one of the purposes most clearly justifying the making of an order , but extended to all documents which the administrator reasonably required to see to carry out his functions ; that the applicant had to satisfy the court that after balancing all the relevant factors , there was a proper case for making the order ; that since the information sought was necessary to enable the administrators to carry out the administration and production of the documents did not impose an unnecessary and unreasonable burden on the accountants , the registrar 's order despite its width , was proper in the exceptional circumstances ( post , pp. 855E–H , 860C–D , 862D–E , G–H , 863D , 864E ) . |
| 14 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 15 | preferred to play safe and order bodies which could be transferred to a narrow gauge system if the standard gauge system for which they were ordered proved a failure . |
| 16 | Where a seller was not in possession of a licence which could be transferred to the buyer at the date of completion of the contract it was decided that , the seller having failed to execute the contract , the purchaser could repudiate it : Day v. Luhke ( 1868 ) L.R. 5 Eq . |
| 17 | What caused its collapse was Craig 's conversion to something which could be presented to loyalists as power-sharing . |
| 18 | Here were good and robust buildings , loved by local residents , which could be converted to a range of uses , but were to be demolished and replaced with mediocre high street architecture . |
| 19 | The same kind of basic research continued after the war and provided the groundwork for endless discoveries which could be applied to peaceful ends . |
| 20 | No history of the ‘ peculiarities of the English ’ can be generalised to other bourgeoisies elsewhere , but a detailed account of this class will show the kind of analysis which could be applied to others . |
| 21 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 22 | It was realistically painted in the authentic lifeboat colours and had a sail of white lights which could be turned to the direction of travel . |
| 23 | The model most frequently projected by medics was of a militarized conception of health , which could be extended to key groups within civil society . |
| 24 | For the authors of this study there was a clear expectation that individuals would commonly produce patterned responses which could be ascribed to a particular personality type . |
| 25 | But they reaped no advantage ; there was nothing moving towards them which could be deemed to be a consideration , with the result that the case is one in which the contract is made , but remains unenforceable in law … . |
| 26 | Both had wash-basins , one of which could be changed to a kitchen sink . |
| 27 | An idea used by both a leading paint manufacturer on the introduction of a new type of paint and a hair product manufacturer on the launch of a new shampoo and which could be adapted to quite a number of other fields was based on the headline " Do n't write about it until you 've tried it . " |
| 28 | Speaking in early 1989 , Medvedev ( an economist by training ) spoke still more positively of the market as a ‘ flexible instrument for reconciling production and consumption ’ which could be adapted to the purposes of a wide variety of social systems . |
| 29 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 30 | Pemberton-Billing 's invention comprised an add-on governor mechanism which could be attached to a clockwork turntable to give this effect ( 49 ) , and a few dozen records were made which more than doubled the average playing-time . |