Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , we have pruned out those parts of the tree which could be grown from node 8 . |
| 2 | Portable models could be hung from a ring on the rim so that the datum line was horizontal . |
| 3 | Or a pair of full-length curtains could be hung from a pole across the wall in front of the bow , framing the windows by day and closing off the alcove at . |
| 4 | These could be hung from a decorative pole , perhaps set well above and extending beyond the sides of the door , to enable the curtains to be drawn well back . |
| 5 | But the overall expenditure total for next year has already been agreed and it 's unlikely that much more could be pared from it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The final four columns of Table 11.1 give details of the financial position of the companies as far as this could be discerned from published data . |
| 8 | A framework for justifying such transformations in the power structure of the company could be developed from the available set of legal ideas . |
| 9 | For the import of the " new " sense of design which I have hypothesised could be developed from these sketches is its interaction with social forces — literally its forming of them . |
| 10 | No doubt this was for the good practical reason that as royal taxation became more frequent separate and additional councils for the church 's own business became more inconvenient : there was a limit to the number of times the clergy could be summoned from their parishes and livings to provincial assemblies in London or elsewhere . |
| 11 | But it is possible that so much competence could be transferred from the member states to the Community that member states would lose their status as sovereign states ’ . |
| 12 | Arab traders exploited the winds of the Indian Ocean to knit together the Persian Gulf , the coast of east Africa and the Malabar coast of south India , where goods could be transferred from dhows to junks bound for Canton . |
| 13 | We are anxious to know where this large quantity could be transferred from ship to shore ? |
| 14 | We are anxious to know where this large quantity could be transferred from ship to shore ? |
| 15 | Three of the pictures in this issue of BAIE News were taken by Ian Billinghurst on the DCS200 , but a lot of work was needed before they could be transferred from the computer system at the BAIE convention to the system at Hardman Press Services . |
| 16 | Where possible , material which could be salvaged from old buildings or walls was recycled into the new fortifications , while in many places no indemnity was paid to those who were forced ‘ pro bono publico ’ to surrender property on which walls might be built or to provide the open ground , outside a wall , vital for effective defence . |
| 17 | The one real consolation that could be salvaged from the whole sorry affair was that the system had worked in the end . |
| 18 | The war , and the region 's complex geopolitical concerns , are also preventing naturalists from undertaking the most effective means of monitoring the Siberian crane - ringing the flock with miniature transmitters that could be tracked from space . |
| 19 | The approach to Jesus in much of the theology and teaching with which Kierkegaard was familiar tended very much to see him too in that kind of light — as the founder of a religion , as the discoverer and imparter of divine truths , as the exemplar of particular values , which were only accidentally bound up with him , but in principle could be detached from him . |
| 20 | Propagation could be achieved from suckers , by budding or pruning ( i.e. cuttings ) . |
| 21 | Yet integration could be achieved from the special-school base if policy did not discourage the placement of deaf people in such educational settings . |
| 22 | With horror and doubt on his face , the elder seizes a pitchfork and hurls it into the gangster 's back ’ It could be argued from the Kantian standpoint that the elder had failed in his duty by not upholding the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence . |
| 23 | It could be argued from this , that er , Wilson 's father began to identify more of his son rather than the other way round . |
| 24 | It is not improbable that men worth £1 or less did not begin to attract attention until the later stages of the subsidy bill , as a result of the Commons ' determination to shift the burden of taxation downwards , for if the intention was to rope in labourers and servants as a makeweight , it could not have been seriously supposed that any substantial amount could be wrung from them . |
| 25 | Alternatively , the tract could be subdivided , or the responsibility for cultivation could be rotated from year to year . |
| 26 | His confidence that God 's existence could be demonstrated from the natural world made him a favourite target for those who felt it could only be on the basis of God 's special revelation of Himself that faith could be justified . |
| 27 | No one could be contacted from the Sunderland coach owner , Redby Travel . |
| 28 | The North consumes too much and the South suffers through debt , food shortages and lack of resources.This is of direct importance to the UN and a campaign to address the problem could be justified from the recommendations of the Willi Brandt report ‘ A Programme for Human Survival ’ . |
| 29 | Spectator sport could be followed from home on a winter 's afternoon and older men increasingly chose to do this . |
| 30 | If the new firm is able to accept instructions , it must take all proper steps to erect the " Chinese Wall " to preserve the confidentiality of the client 's affairs : the stringency and complexity of this pretty well rules out any possibility that instructions could be accepted from more than one of the clients involved . |