Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | With great rapidity tea replaced coffee as the major plantation crop , and soon its acreage surpassed that of coffee at its height , for tea could be grown at more varied elevations than coffee . |
| 2 | Apart from a concerted effort by its backers , which could be shaped at the end of year meeting , Goldstein says only catalytic events will otherwise drive the Architecture-Neutral Format to market . |
| 3 | Apart from a concerted effort by its backers , which could be shaped at the end of year meet , Goldstein says only catalytic events will otherwise drive ANDF to market . |
| 4 | Jack did not like strangers in the house , so there was no regular charwoman , only the obliging person who could be summoned at intervals when Jack was away . |
| 5 | Specialist local authority homes for dementia , to which new residents could be admitted , or to which residents of " ordinary " homes could be transferred at later stages , are a possibility , but are against strongly held principles of integration and continuity of care . |
| 6 | As part of the drive to impose an appearance of order on the world , nineteenth-century science created a vast body of numerical information all carefully arranged so that geographical variations could be ascertained at a glance . |
| 7 | The British consul-general in Seoul , D. W. Kermode , informed London on 8 February that Rhee intended sending Byung Chic Limb on a ‘ goodwill visit ’ to Britain and that Rhee hoped Limb could be received at the Foreign Office . |
| 8 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 9 | It is important that this form is completed accurately ; if you fail to do so and , in particular , if you conceal any medical condition which could affect your work , your continued employment could be placed at risk . |
| 10 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 11 | Similarly , a lower inflation rate could be achieved at the cost of an increase in the unemployment percentage . |
| 12 | A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect . |
| 13 | Often better listening-conditions could be achieved at little cost . |
| 14 | By having the firms with low marginal reduction costs contract further and firms with high marginal reduction costs contract less , the same total reduction in pollution could be achieved at less cost . |
| 15 | Beveridge became more sanguine about the level of full employment which could be achieved at the same time as he proposed less control by the government over the economy . |
| 16 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 17 | Thus unacceptable strings could be rejected at an earlier stage , leaving fewer for the lexical look-up to check . |
| 18 | Put simply , £100 received today could be invested at 10% per annum and so be worth £110 next year compared with the £100 received then . |
| 19 | Kessel ( 1965 ) has suggested a limit to the amount of tablets that could be dispensed at a given time , and in some areas chemist shop assistants are instructed to refer customers to senior staff when large amounts of tablets are being requested . |
| 20 | Huge audiences could be entertained at relatively little cost . |
| 21 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 22 | This version of a marketable discharge licence process employs a national airshed , but it could be applied at a state or local level and for other pollutants in the future . |
| 23 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 24 | Replacing ‘ bourgeois ’ relationships with new revolutionary patterns of consciousness meant virtually every aspect of existing life — sexual orientation and partners , domestic arrangements , employment — could be challenged at the whim of a therapist , with accommodation a condition of remaining in therapy . |
| 25 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 26 | The Countess , like the Merry Widow , could be played at almost any age providing she was elegant . |
| 27 | Extremely powerful local area networks will be needed to handle the kinds of data volumes that could be involved at any given moment . |
| 28 | A recent international meeting of computer-literate historians addressed these very questions and resolved to prepare a curriculum of instruction in computational methods and techniques which could be adopted at any number of institutions ( Davis , et.al. 1993 ) . |
| 29 | There 's the kind of repair and maintenance bit , which really could be handled at a more divisional level . |
| 30 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |