Example sentences of "[noun] could [be] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ella he had dismissed , as pleasure could be recalled at any time , while the business in hand was urgent . |
| 2 | A set of questionnaires could be issued at this stage as the basis for further discussion and as a focus for reviewing and prioritising developments . |
| 3 | The supply deal could be terminated at three months ' notice . |
| 4 | In the course of an acrid , 30-minute press conference , called at midday and starting at 3.42 , both men implied that the deal could be resurrected at some time later : ‘ I might consider selling my majority shareholding in the future , ’ said Edwards , ‘ but certainly not this season . ’ |
| 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 | Bringing a force north-west from the French colony on the St. Lawrence to attack them would be very difficult but , if a force could be brought at all , it would not have to be very large to capture all the bases . |
| 7 | The Pathfinder Force should be on a different basis and these should consist of 45 sorties , but crews could be withdrawn at any time after the completion of 30 sorties . |
| 8 | In theory , new commercial catch quotas could be set at next year 's meeting in Tokyo under a " revised management procedure " ( RMP ) , although any such decision might be so hedged around with qualifications as to make it impossible to fulfil . |
| 9 | Rooms were arranged round the atrium and colonnaded garden courts ( peristyles ) so shades or sun could be enjoyed at all seasons and time of day . |
| 10 | Equipment could be located at any of the existing restaurants without serious dislocation or additional expense . |
| 11 | Myriad troubles from which cable systems could suffer included ‘ … silt , uncharted currents … winds — during the monsoon no Indian Ocean cable could be mended at all . |
| 12 | As no progress could be made at that meeting , it was agreed that the matter should be brought to the next stage of procedures which is Joint Industrial Council . |
| 13 | He always seemed to know exactly where Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers could be located at any time of the day or night . |
| 14 | This was so notwithstanding that the field could be closed at any time and that certain people could be refused admission . |
| 15 | A fresh look could be taken at some of these , in order to determine their effectiveness in helping parishes both to respond to the liturgical changes of recent years and to explore a wider repertoire of music . |
| 16 | ft and an FSI at 2 , either the site could be covered at two storeys to yield the permitted 20,000 sq . |
| 17 | When the best signal is obtained , the optical fibre could be secured at each end using PVC tape . |
| 18 | In addition , the law lowered the voting age to 16 and established the principle that elected officials could be removed at any time and must deliver regular reports to the electorate [ for July constitutional changes see p. 39000 ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Engagement through the Offices was , they claimed , nothing more than legal crimpage , and the Register Ticket could be bought at many lodging houses . |
| 21 | The demonstration of lysozyme positive macrophages in the small bowel was achieved by increasing the exposure time to six to seven days whereas positive colonic macrophages could be detected at three to four days . |
| 22 | Often better listening-conditions could be achieved at little cost . |
| 23 | The shape of this 30ft by 45ft design seemed to make it appear wider and not all features could be seen at first glance . |
| 24 | The family group consists , typically , of a Roman set ( normal type ) , bold , italic and bold italic and , through the magic of PostScript , the characters could be produced at any size from around 4 point to , theoretically , infinity . |
| 25 | If sufficient forces could be raised at short notice , the robbed would pursue the robbers on ‘ hot trod ’ , with the right to reclaim their goods by force and deal with the wrongdoers out of hand . |
| 26 | The car-hire company , and one of the anonymous respondents , did not consider such methods and questioned how poaching could be prevented at all . |
| 27 | The information was also required to ascertain what assessment materials could be included at different levels of a graduated test scheme so that pupils taking each level could achieve a high degree of success . |
| 28 | Her voice could be heard at three in the morning at the Gargoyle solemnly announcing to Minton , ‘ We Capricorns must stick together . ’ |
| 29 | This provision did not take into account the substantial number of businesses in the licensed trade which are owned and operated by bodies corporate or incorporate and not by individual persons , with the result that the licence holder was a company official who exercised little or no control over the day-to-day running of the premises , or was the manager of the premises , and whose employment could be terminated at any time , irrespective of the date of expiry of the licence , either by his own volition or by his employer 's . |
| 30 | To be sure it is a little difficult to be certain how big " large " has to be before this behaviour sets in — indeed it was emphasised by Bohr and his friends that the line could be drawn at different places along the chain — but somewhere this classical behaviour had to set in to make measurement possible . |