Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negative growth in Trinidad and Tobago 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) continued during 1989 and 1990 , but at a slower rate , leading to hopes that positive growth could be recorded in 1991 . |
| 2 | Alistair Asprey , Hong Kong 's Secretary for Security , forecast that all illegal Vietnamese immigrants in Hong Kong could be repatriated by 1995 . |
| 3 | He also pointed out , though somewhat less convincingly , that some geological structures could be traced from one continent to another across what are now wide stretches of ocean . |
| 4 | For not only was the papacy 's practical influence severely circumscribed by schism , and the development of its governmental powers halted , but no theory of papal power could be developed with two contenders for St Peter 's chair . |
| 5 | According to Nikolay Gubyenko , former USSR Minister of Culture , claims have already been lodged or could be lodged for 3,017,128 works of art . |
| 6 | How many beads could be threaded in 2 minutes would be measured . |
| 7 | Thereafter , warrants were issued for only two months , though they could be renewed for one month at a time in the case of those issued to the police , and six months at a time in the case of those issued to the security services . |
| 8 | These figures , if projected forward , indicate fifty thousand applications for asylum could be received during 1991 . |
| 9 | Suppose that an instruction which specified indexed addressing could also specify whether the index value was to be modified ( for example , it could be incremented by one ) . |
| 10 | Two or three cameras , mounted on tripods , could be placed in three select committee rooms and in two used by standing committees , and some upgrading of the lights was required in those rooms when the cameras were in use , but the aim was to make as few changes as possible during the experimental period . |
| 11 | The manufacturer estimates that break-even point could be achieved with 14 meals per day . |
| 12 | A decrease of PAI could be achieved within 2 days by transperitoneal dialysis . |
| 13 | This could be achieved in one of two defined ways : a two-tier board consisting of separate managing and supervisory boards ( on the present German model ) , or a one-tier board ( as at present in the UK ) but with a split of the management and supervisory functions . |
| 14 | Ryzhkov assessed that by the second stage the situation in the consumer market should have improved radically , that material and financial market equilibrium could be achieved in 1992 , and that economic growth and an improvement in living standards was possible from 1993 . |
| 15 | This could be achieved in three years , using intensive cultivation . |
| 16 | Under the agreement , debt could be converted into five varieties of concessionary bonds , each requiring the banks to offer discounts of 35 per cent on the face value of debt owed to them , in return for higher interest rates on the remainder . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This proposal was further supported by a number of investigations in which in vitro DNA/protein crosslinking could be demonstrated after one or the other of the nucleoside analogues mentioned above was incorporated into DNA , either in vivo ( 10 , 11 ) or by DNA polymerase reaction in vitro ( 12 ) . |
| 19 | Baxter , argued that third party rights could be justified on one of four bases : international servitudes ; third party beneficiary rights ; dispositive treaties ; and , the view favoured by Baxter , a theory of dedication or reliance , which is closely connected with estoppel . |
| 20 | Following approval of the budget , the UN timetable envisaged that a ceasefire could be arranged within 16 weeks between Morocco and the guerrillas of the Polisario Front . |
| 21 | Chair , erm on that , if that could be arranged in two or three months time , perhaps we can see how the Charter of Commerce is working out , because I think many of us are very interested to see how it is working out , we could erm discuss with somebody who 's in bed-and-breakfast , who could then erm tell us how the Charter of Commerce is working . |
| 22 | Unshielded , an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare . |
| 23 | Two is the obvious number , but in certain circumstances a case could be made for one prisoner or three prisoners . |
| 24 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 25 | How many could be made from 14 metres ? |
| 26 | He organized chemical compounds into a series of ‘ types ’ ; but for him formulae were simply condensed recipes , and a compound which could be made in two ways might well have two different formulae . |
| 27 | But the final report from the Wagner Development group recommended nursing and social care provision could be made within one set of regulations , with homes registering under one inspectorate . |
| 28 | Treatment efficacy could be evaluated in 14 of the 16 patients . |
| 29 | Longterm outcome could be evaluated in 90 patients ( 52% ) ( mean ( SD ) 6.9 ( 2.7 ) ) years after initial evaluation . |
| 30 | Longterm outcome could be evaluated in 90 patients . |