Example sentences of "[noun] could [be] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that the potential of visits to project schools could be realised in a number of ways . |
| 2 | Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work . |
| 3 | Despite the enterprise and labour put into its acquisition it has been estimated that all the gold won between the mid-fifteenth and mid-twentieth centuries could be contained in a cube of fifteen yards . |
| 4 | Curtis said that the Wheel could be accommodated in a shed in the police station yard , so Wycliffe left him to organise transport . |
| 5 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 6 | He knew which cinemas occasionally showed good films , and which cinemas never ; he knew about a painter who had been born in Northam , and whose work could be seen in a room at the Public Library . |
| 7 | If the weather holds out work could be completed in a short time . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) Although some of the sung texts could be interpreted in a serious way , the dramatic situation is such as to cast them in a comic , or even burlesque , light . |
| 9 | In a letter to the London Evening News of the late 1920s , Hitchcock expresses his own sense of how Hollywood models could be redeployed in a British context : |
| 10 | Devlin 's argument is that ‘ exploitation ’ and ‘ corruption ’ are such nebulous terms that almost any field of morality could be defined in a way to allow at least the theoretical intervention of the law . |
| 11 | In a whole series of urban dramas , of which the best known is The Musketeers of Pig Alley , he showed that a society of Dickensian-like authenticity could be created in a film studio . |
| 12 | Even when married , she had her husband ‘ pull strings ’ with a house-factor in order that she , Johnny and their baby girl could be housed in a flat next to Mother 's . |
| 13 | A ten-year-old could be detained in a police cell for up to 36 hours but it is more common for children to be released into the care of social workers overnight . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides — ’ said Anne who had not been listening , but pursuing her own line of thought ‘ — if I were affianced to Prince Edward , the marriage could be completed in a year or so — instead of delayed for Heaven knows how long ! ’ |
| 15 | He was trapped in his body , as surely as a crashed motorist could be held in a wrecked car by a locked seat belt . |
| 16 | At one level bank notes could be sent in a parcel to the American exporter . |
| 17 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 18 | Many people had called offering to help to search the area and some suggested that their sons could be used in a reconstruction of James 's disappearance from the Strand . |
| 19 | The panel accepted the social work argument that if there was a high degree of Social Work input to the family home , and that if Jim could be placed in a new school for his remaining few months of statutory attendance , then this might be the most suitable response . |
| 20 | Better behaviour patterns could be established in a familiar place . |
| 21 | Roh also indicated that the two Koreas ' plans for reunification could be combined in a three-stage formula , starting with the South Korean plan based on a Korean community , and proceeding to a confederal republic of Koryo , as proposed by the North . |
| 22 | Knowledge about the harmful consequences of smoking could be maintained in a low key manner through the school curriculum . |
| 23 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 24 | Similar programmes could be developed in a chemistry or physics context . |
| 25 | The extra 1V could be lost in a series resistance , as shown inset in Fig 3 . |
| 26 | To remedy these distressing conditions , UNO has calculated that if every country , rich and poor , gave 0.7 per cent of its gross national product , world poverty could be banished in a generation . |
| 27 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 28 | Generic substitution could be achieved in a number of ways . |
| 29 | The level of transaction costs , and the scale of third party and other effects , invite speculation about whether management changes could be effected in a less costly and disruptive way . |
| 30 | The orthographic information stored in the lexical look-up tree could be used in a similar way to n-gram look-up discussed earlier , whereby non-occurring letter sequences are ruled out , and alternative character candidates are tried instead . |