Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] to any " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This arrangement could be extended to any group in the health service prepared to give a similar pledge . |
| 6 | The same argument could be extended to any other region of the electromagnetic spectrum ( although a creature able to see using , say , X-rays is vanishingly improbable in terms of basic biology ) . |
| 7 | Standard trestle piers could be joined , and so could be constructed to any height , width , or length . |
| 8 | Probably the first piece of advice that could be given to any new practitioner is that whilst a friend may be a client , a client should never become a friend , for an easy transition from a client to a friend can often lead to serious problems and difficulties . |
| 9 | She could be matched to any of four performers in the floorshow ; Josie was n't sure why , but it was as if her teenager 's skin and certain odd , somehow held-back elements of her personality made her into a blank sheet onto which anything could be drawn . |
| 10 | If units of good were constantly being cancelled by units of evil , ultimately mankind could be reverted to any point in time past , even to as far back as the beginning of life . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to be able to produce instruments which would look attractive , and could be tailored to any individual requirements , and still be available at reasonable cost . |
| 12 | This independence of knowledge sources during processing meant that the lexical access component could be directed to any part of the phoneme graph , and thus left to right strategies as used in HARPY could be compared with island-driving strategies which began anywhere along the time dimension of the search space . |
| 13 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 14 | In the simplest case , records with keys such as 00 000 to 99 999 could be allocated to any contiguous set of 100000 storage positions . |
| 15 | Perhaps money could be offered to any man or woman who volunteers to be sterilised ? |
| 16 | In Basque law the farm could be left to any child — even a daughter — while co-heirs were bought out : this encouraged emigration of younger sons ( the rich returned ‘ Indian ’ was a feature of Basque life ) and thus mitigated some of the evils of rural over-population . |