Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the domination of the criminal market was well known within the profession nothing was done for two main reasons : first , solicitors were making a handsome living and were under no pressure to find or create alternative sources of income : and second , there appeared to be no way in which these cartels could be broken by ethical means : |
| 2 | The final four columns of Table 11.1 give details of the financial position of the companies as far as this could be discerned from published data . |
| 3 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 4 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 5 | There are also hopes that a live trade in slaughter cattle could be developed with other EC countries over 1994 — just as has already taken place with slaughter lambs to France . |
| 6 | One might have anticipated an exposition on how this new syntax differed from that of the preceding age and how it could be developed for stylistic purposes . |
| 7 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 8 | Councillors on Thursday decided that the 12-acre Cattle Market at Bury could be developed in small-scale phases . |
| 9 | Before 1885 lashes could be inflicted in ordinary cattle-stealing cases . |
| 10 | Thus these case roles could be filled with nonsensical objects such as ’ sincerity ’ or ’ steam ’ ; i.e. , one could say ’ steam collided with sincerity ’ . |
| 11 | This innovation allowed ministers to prescribe the maximum local rate that could be levied by particular local authorities . |
| 12 | Boris Pyankov , discussed which sections of the armed forces stationed in the republic could be transferred to Moldovan control . |
| 13 | To start with a relatively easy issue , part of the funds raised could be channelled into public sector investment projects , of which there is presently in Britain a substantial backlog ( e.g. modernisation of the railways , energy conservation measures , renewal of urban sewage systems , accelerated house-building programme ) . |
| 14 | One important consequence of this research was his discovery in 1884 that isoprene ( the building block of natural rubber ) could be prepared by passing turpentine oil vapour through a red-hot iron tube . |
| 15 | The seasonality of advertising is the first consideration , either because the budget is too small to spread over a full year , or because even a very large budget could be weighted towards certain times of year . |
| 16 | Where possible , material which could be salvaged from old buildings or walls was recycled into the new fortifications , while in many places no indemnity was paid to those who were forced ‘ pro bono publico ’ to surrender property on which walls might be built or to provide the open ground , outside a wall , vital for effective defence . |
| 17 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 18 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 19 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |
| 20 | From their social position , the conditions of the working class could be conceived in absolute terms and compared with an abstract model of ordered familial life . |
| 21 | The development officer took the decision about whether or not a client needed a support worker by considering whether his or her basic needs ( for food , cleanliness , warmth , sleep , safety ) were being fulfilled , and if not , whether they could be fulfilled by existing informal or formal carers . |
| 22 | The question is whether the same remit could be fulfilled by different means ? |
| 23 | The prey could be placed with regular spacing , or at random , or clumped in groups . |
| 24 | Often better listening-conditions could be achieved at little cost . |
| 25 | Name had reached a ceiling on what could be achieved under present arrangements ; |
| 26 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 27 | There already exists much evidence of a willingness among a wide range of bodies to collaborate in achieving a result that is greater than the sum of their individual contributions , but there is more that could be achieved through genuine and lasting partnerships . |
| 28 | This could be achieved through genetic modifications of crops , increased use of biological controls , such as natural predators , and a planned approach to crop rotation . |
| 29 | This process necessarily involved some redundancies , but it was found that many of the reductions could be achieved through natural wastage , and it was possible to offer a considerable number of employees transfers to the St Helens or Northwich breweries . |
| 30 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |