Example sentences of "this could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might it would be helpful actually if this could be written down for us . |
| 2 | This could be moved to Sunday if the Drama Department could come up with something more suitable . |
| 3 | By analogy , therefore , where the refusal of planning permission makes it impossible for a defendant to comply with the terms of a nuisance order , this could be regarded as a reasonable excuse . |
| 4 | This could be regarded as a superior explanation to the others . |
| 5 | This could be regarded as nothing more than fatigue and recovery from fatigue , but it is not . |
| 6 | This could be regarded as a pragmatic approach to the design of devices for the organization of knowledge by subject . |
| 7 | If Pool Re was the only viable cover offered on the market , this could be regarded as an anti-competitive agreement under article 85 , unless special exemption was obtained form the European Commission . |
| 8 | Himself a minister from 1964 and an advocate of devaluation , Jenkins contends that " if they [ Wilson and Callaghan ] could get American support for what they wanted to do anyway this could be regarded as serving a British interest and , from the point of view of the 1966 election , even a Labour Party interest " . |
| 9 | But all this could be turned to good account . |
| 10 | This could be turned on its head . |
| 11 | This could be turned into the future by add the suffix -mi . |
| 12 | As a supporter of balanced budgets , however , he insisted that this could be funded from defence cuts made possible by the " peace dividend " , rather than through deficits or higher taxes . |
| 13 | Clever idea , but there is a feeling that this could be broken if not treated with care . |
| 14 | This could be expanded to read : |
| 15 | This could be expanded to include issues of job design . |
| 16 | This could be caused either by a genetic change which altered the relevant attaching enzymes , or by a genetic change which altered the anticodon of a tRNA molecule without altering the attachment site for the amino acid ( or vice versa ) ; such mutations do occur as rare variants . |
| 17 | Secondly , consider the effect of an autonomous increase in the real money supply ( this could be caused by an increase in the nominal money stock or a fall in the general price level ) . |
| 18 | If this could be rephrased objectively it would become a helpful goal within the ABA model . |
| 19 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 20 | A bow gun position housed a 0.303″ Lewis machine-gun mounted on a Scarf ring , and this could be pushed back to facilitate mooring-up or towing . |
| 21 | This could be viewed as another indirect criticism of the embattled leadership and their poor record on corruption . |
| 22 | A member of a local branch of the union claimed that this could be viewed as a ‘ rolled up ’ ballot question , and applied for the Commissioner 's assistance . |
| 23 | This could be compared with an estimate of the same prevalence from some previous survey to give a measure of secular change . |
| 24 | In the case of a commission , this could be sent to the client as a proof . |
| 25 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife . |
| 26 | He asked Hitching to find out whether this could be detected scientifically . |
| 27 | But she feels this could be overcome if managed well . |
| 28 | Furthermore , gradation could equally lead to heavier sentences than might otherwise have been given for conduct which comes within the higher categories , although this could be regulated by appeal courts and sentencing guidelines . |
| 29 | This could be merged with names and addresses from the database in Task 1 . |
| 30 | Lighting our houses , workplaces and public buildings may account for over 10GW of power at peak time — this could be cut by 75 per cent if new fluorescent lamps were used instead of the incandescent light bulb . |