Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SE would be a hybrid ( and to this extent some of the original purpose of the SE has been lost ) ; it would be incorporated in a particular Member State , whose domestic laws would govern certain aspects of its operations ( e.g. insolvency ) , but its registered office could be transferred to another Member State . |
| 2 | Boris Pyankov , discussed which sections of the armed forces stationed in the republic could be transferred to Moldovan control . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Any new vein discovered , but left unwrought for the space of six months after notice was given by the estate to the captain or purser of the mine , could be licenced to any other person to work . |
| 5 | What he wanted was wide open spaces that could be converted to one of his new-style holiday camps , offering bargain , trouble-free holidays for the whole family . |
| 6 | Depends how much ma if you , maybe new P C these days , it would normally have it already on it four thousand K of memory , and three thousand left could be converted to expanded memory , but it 's not worth it only use five hundred K of it probably . |
| 7 | Another significant finding was that there was no difference in basal UOS pressure in children whose problems could be ascribed to oesophagopharyngeal reflux when compared with children in other groups . |
| 8 | ( Most of the examples come from England , although they could be generalized to other common-law systems . ) |
| 9 | Local authorities , housing associations , community groups , government agencies , private developers and building societies were all represented at the launch , where they were told how Middlesbroughwrought experience and expertise could be applied to similar schemes nationwide , with the SkillBuilding social enterprise company offering guidance on planning , funding , construction and long-term management and also able to act as developer or sub-contractor . |
| 10 | The same kind of basic research continued after the war and provided the groundwork for endless discoveries which could be applied to peaceful ends . |
| 11 | Suddenly I realized that many of the techniques that Penrose and I had developed to prove singularities could be applied to black holes . |
| 12 | But I would like to note in passing that Mrs. Campbell-Fisher 's observation could be applied to all second-order experiences , not just the arts . |
| 13 | In addition this ban could be applied to all political parties in a locality for up to three months . |
| 14 | The same policy could be applied to all areas of communication , such as between the CBI and the Government , which Mr Davies described as ‘ quite a tricky business ’ . |
| 15 | If it works with melonoma it could be applied to all the other forms of cancer . |
| 16 | It seemed reasonable to suppose that such benefits could be applied to other districts of the city without necessarily designating housing improvement schemes . |
| 17 | Perhaps that principle could be applied to other opportunity areas . |
| 18 | My account of deixis is such that the methodology could be applied to other kinds of discourse , both literary and non-literary . |
| 19 | The principles of historical criticism could be applied to religious disciplines other than biblical ones , most notably to the development of doctrine . |
| 20 | For example , Prentky , in his book Creativity and Psychopathology , tabulates the probable psychiatric diagnoses that could be applied to certain eminent writers , artists , scientists and composers . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | A higher standard of planning control could be applied to these designated areas , with special consideration given to the height and bulk of buildings , materials , colours , vertical or horizontal emphasis and the grain of design . |
| 23 | She always loathed naturalistic and realist writing , and locates in Raymond Carver a ‘ grey … glum … discontented acquiescence ’ that could be applied to any number of British anaemic depressives . |
| 24 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Possibly such ideas could be applied to fine tune aloof measurements by distinguishing between different regions of the image and applying weights . |
| 27 | But then ‘ it is difficult to see how analytical reason could be applied to dialectical reason and claim to establish it , if the two are defined by mutually exclusive characteristics ’ . |
| 28 | This volume , and volumes of readings on Environmental Geomorphology and Landscape Conservation ( Coates , 1972 , 1973 ) , have revitalized the scope and focus of geomorphology and the approach contained could be applied to physical geography as a whole . |
| 29 | Such choices are made on a national basis , and bibliometric methods could be applied to either . |
| 30 | Unshielded , an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare . |