Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | P drivers could even be limited to low speeds . |
| 2 | Farm animals could not be led to the school , and their illnesses were often too rapid in course to permit of their transport . |
| 3 | Before a distinguished audience Dr Robert Koch , the eminent Berlin bacteriologist , who in 1882 had described the tubercle bacillus , lecturing on the subject of the disease , stated positively that the bacillus found in infected animals could not be transferred to human beings . |
| 4 | By analogy with the Z2 Carbonate , however , similar porosities could also be expected to be developed in base of slope sediments where the pay zone would be thicker and the rocks would make more attractive reservoirs . |
| 5 | Lord Keith held that the distinction between evidence and discovery was recognised both in the Act and in Article 23 of the Convention ; it was not disputed by counsel that effect could not be given to a request merely seeking discovery . |
| 6 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 7 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 8 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |
| 9 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 10 | In the late seventies and early eighties , travel to Cosford could sometimes be likened to a cross-polar expedition as athletes and spectators battled through blizzards and packed snow , up or down the M6 and along the A5 , or up the A41 from Wolverhampton . |
| 11 | Note that a real problem usually involves men rather than one man and thus there are extensive man-man communication issues where few of the functions could conceivably be allocated to non-human mechanisms . |
| 12 | The fuelwood shortage in these areas could also be alleviated to a degree by the introduction of more efficient wood-burning stoves , and industrial use of wood could be improved by minimising waste . |
| 13 | They called upon North Korea to submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities as an act of compliance with international law , stressing that the issue could not be linked to other matters such as the payment of Japanese compensation for Korea 's pre-1945 colonization . |
| 14 | At this time ( the late 1970s ) , I was teaching courses in the sociology of deviance to degree and social work students , and it seemed to me that certain key ideas and insights from this work could usefully be applied to the study of child abuse . |
| 15 | Experimental results showing the involvement of RNA and protein synthesis in memory formation could readily be accommodated to the new molecular thinking , but what really raised the temperature of the whole enterprise were reports that began to appear of bizarre memory experiments involving planaria . |
| 16 | In the book itself he carried through this programme by asserting that theology could not be dictated to by another discipline either about the nature of its object or about the methods appropriate to its study . |
| 17 | The other issue upon which the Minister was at his disingenuous worst was about why individual sale proceeds could not be revealed to us . |
| 18 | This must be specifically claimed ( Ord 6 , r 1A ) and reference could usefully be made to Practice Note ( Claims for Interest ) ( No 2 ) , [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 377 issued for the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court which specifies the particulars required to be pleaded in the Queen 's Bench in claims for interest on debt or damages made under s 15 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , the empowering Act . |
| 19 | The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse , as no blame could possibly be attributed to her . |
| 20 | However , the sluggish and top-heavy bureaucratic apparatus of the City Council could not be moved to action . |
| 21 | The senate decreed that B could not be asked to institute C heir : yet it appeared that in this way A had asked that B should make over A 's estate to C , that is to make over to him whatever B had obtained from A 's estate . |
| 22 | He gave it as his opinion in 1926 , shortly before Browne 's inglorious departure , that the current state of affairs in Masai District represented ‘ indirect administration in its purest form ’ , and thought this happy circumstance could mostly be credited to Browne , whom the Masai ‘ greatly respect and honour ’ . |
| 23 | One privilege of his Gascon subjects was that the duchy could never be alienated to anyone except an eldest son — hence the outbreak of conflict under Richard II when John of Gaunt ( the king 's uncle ) was made duke of Aquitaine ( 1390–4 ) . |
| 24 | He and Jonathon Alleyne were close friends — some said business associates , though technically Alleyne could not be tied to any commercial ventures . |
| 25 | That Irish twist could even be likened to the ancient Chinese principle of the yin and yang , or opposites : positive and negative , light and dark , inaction and action , and so on . |
| 26 | In other words , although the Formalists took a very important step in making language central to their definition of literature , their theoretical shortcomings could largely be attributed to their failure to extend a theory of language to other spheres . |
| 27 | The report suggests that free bus passes could also be offered to ‘ certain disadvantaged groups ’ in their first weeks of employment . |
| 28 | There was really no reason why the Girl-Human could not be brought to all their bed-chambers , one after the other , before she was used in the Fidchell . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it was held that any false indication given by the retailer could not be said to be due to the act or default of Cadbury since the retailer could quite easily have compared the weights and prices of his existing stock and the new bars to see if the label ‘ Extra value ’ was justified . |
| 30 | Whatever their ultimate truth or falsity , beliefs and ideologies could thus be subjected to exactly the same kind of functional analysis as other social phenomena . |