Example sentences of "could be [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus these case roles could be filled with nonsensical objects such as ’ sincerity ’ or ’ steam ’ ; i.e. , one could say ’ steam collided with sincerity ’ . |
| 3 | The prey could be placed with regular spacing , or at random , or clumped in groups . |
| 4 | It includes assets which could be converted with relative ease and without capital loss into spending on goods and services . |
| 5 | To the mediaeval mind , ‘ game ’ stood in antithesis to ‘ earnestness ’ , and so what took place on the pageant cart could be equated with other street pastimes . |
| 6 | Initially , they were filled with slate dust , so they could be played with ordinary heavyweight pickups . |
| 7 | To supplement the natural barrier provided by the marshes themselves , ditches were constructed that could be flooded with giant pumps and even electrified , to create what was described by the Guardian 's correspondent as a ‘ giant moat ’ and by the Iraqi corps commander of the area as a ‘ fish trap ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Davies ' remarks can be interpreted in two ways : the public expression of a maverick opinion , in the manner of Bill Cash or Ivan Lawrence ; or he could be acting with covert government backing as a kind of stalking horse to gauge the reaction from MPs , and the public , to his suggestion . |
| 9 | In July 1922 , the Company enquired whether either of the other two companies had any covered top cars to spare , which they could borrow , to see if their own cars could be fitted with top covers . |
| 10 | Supporters could be rewarded with favourable tax assessments or the renewal of public-house licences . |
| 11 | Many similar examples could be constructed with other vowels ; some possibilities may be suggested by the list of words given in 9.2 to show the different spellings that can be pronounced with . |
| 12 | After the war , plastic-based iron-oxide tape could be cut with non-magnetic scissors ( or even a razor-blade ) , and either welded with cement or stuck with adhesive tape ( 23 ) . |
| 13 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 14 | In both those cases the express words used and the relevant clause could be compared with other express words used elsewhere . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This approach could be explored with other sorts of literature . |
| 17 | " The Origins of the English Civil War " , could be noted with political factors written or shaded in blue , religious factors in red , economic in green , and so forth . |
| 18 | A , the judge did not explain the use of seven as a multiplier but it not suggested that such a calculation could be done with complete accuracy and using a five percent table , the judge was faced with choosing between seven and eight . |
| 19 | Services were often inadequate and expensive , because the Treasury had refused to provide money for investment ; managers were full of ideas of what could be done with new and cost-cutting technology . |
| 20 | Writing the history of the electronic-information rich countries at the end of the millennium could be done with dynamic resources that would offer comprehensive profiles of political , economic , social , and cultural worlds . |
| 21 | By the 1950s and 1960s , delicate equipment for reaching and investigating single nerve cells could be built with new materials . |
| 22 | More of these remarkable aircraft , and many new weapons , could be built with just part of the money that could be saved by scrapping the enormously expensive B-1s and B-52s . |
| 23 | In this case a solution was at hand , although it helped the teacher rather more than the children : it was to neglect those children working in curriculum areas perceived to be relatively unimportant ( such as art and topic work ) , to devise for them low-level activities which could be tackled with minimal teacher intervention , and to focus attention on those children who demanded it . |
| 24 | Your information could be to do with other people : knowing what –heir capabilities are , what motivates them , where they have influence . |
| 25 | He says it could be to do with common land rights or fertlity , but no one really knows . |
| 26 | It was marketed under the name Distaval and the advertisements in 1961 indicated that it could be given with complete safety to pregnant women . |
| 27 | The Keynesian consensus , built on an expanding economy in which private profit could be balanced with social need , has now been destroyed by recession and economic decline . |
| 28 | Such patients could be matched with similar HCWs in the same area . |
| 29 | These dogs look happy enough , but they could be riddled with canine complexes . |
| 30 | The British Government stumbled at this hurdle , and in fact failed simply because domestic law did not regulate the circumstances in which the power could be exercised with sufficient clarity . |