Example sentences of "[conj] could [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The design can be knitted as a single motif of 80 stitches by 80 rows , could be doubled in size by using the double length and double width buttons for a very large rhino , or could be knitted as a savannah scene with a second single motif of a acacia thorn tree . |
| 2 | The interest rates are calculated in the way required by the Consumer Credit Act and do not take into account any tax relief that could be gained for a home improvements loan . |
| 3 | Lord Sutherland told Maddison that life imprisonment was the only sentence that could be imposed on a murder charge . |
| 4 | A big pie was not something that could be made in a field and cooked on a bonfire , it would require skill and expertise in the use of large ovens and these were available as they were used by the local manufacturers of earthenware pipes : |
| 5 | under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer , I ought , I think , to give an indication of what , in my opinion , would be a permissible form of order that could be sought against a non-recipient . |
| 6 | This , in turn , allowed Adobe , a company founded by two ex-Xerox PARC researchers , to turn their PostScript page description language into a marketable product that could be built into a page printer . |
| 7 | Kessel ( 1965 ) has suggested a limit to the amount of tablets that could be dispensed at a given time , and in some areas chemist shop assistants are instructed to refer customers to senior staff when large amounts of tablets are being requested . |
| 8 | In other words , by careful examination of the database it was possible to assess and list the processes that could be supported by a computer system , and identify broadly the associated information . |
| 9 | The presumption was that there were certain universals of social organization , functions that could be recognized in a variety of cultural forms ; myths , kinship orders , etc . |
| 10 | They consulted a doctor who told them that there was very little that could be done for a rheumatic attack . |
| 11 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 12 | Forty-eight was the maximum number of matches that could be fitted into a day . |
| 13 | In this single speech , Law foreshadowed the development of the party for the next fifteen years ; the strategic dilemma over relations with the other parties after the war , the need to make real concessions to make a coalition workable , the openings that could be created by a national leader of independent reputation ( Baldwin as it turned out ) , and the outcome when the moderate men of all parties came together in 1931 . |
| 14 | The Centre for Research on User Studies asked its respondents to indicate ‘ topics for which you think there is most need for external provision of training ’ , and while there was little evidence of lack of interest in external training or lack of perceived need , there was also little evidence of discrimination between needs that could be met by a range of methods and needs that could only be met by external provision . |
| 15 | The door panels , emblazoned with the Imperial Arms , were bullet-proof and were fitted with locks and bolts , while behind the windows were blinds that could be operated by a spring . |
| 16 | A difficulty is that Mercier 's brushwork , and an essential freedom in his style , does not lend itself to the same kind of minute scrutiny that could be applied to a painter like Zoffany . |
| 17 | Pleasant as the round of meetings had been , there was next to nothing that could be agreed as a common objective for the final communiqué . |
| 18 | The initial examination of the requirement was based on the categories derived in the earlier analysis , which produced some tentative conclusions about the type of records that could be held on a computer , and the potential advantages that could be gained . |
| 19 | The computer could be used to rescale the image pixel values so that the lowest value in the image ( 25 ) was interpolated onto the lowest value that the display system could accommodate ( 0 ) while the highest value in the raw image ( 90 ) was mapped to the maximum value that could be held at a pixel point in the image memory bank ( 255 ) . |
| 20 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 21 | And as she spoke , Mrs Denham , in the garden below , suddenly leaped to her feet , and started gathering up her things ; they could not catch what she was saying , but she seemed faintly agitated , and Martin too got to his feet , though not with any movement that could be described as a leap , and appeared to offer , though ineffectively , to help with his baby . |
| 22 | The report starts with the premise that wild red deer are ‘ a valuable national asset that could be managed on a sustainable basis to produce greater net economic , environmental and social benefits than at present . ’ |
| 23 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |
| 24 | Plainly , a court which was considering whether to impose a community service order while an earlier order was still current should bear in mind that Parliament had prescribed 240 hours as the maximum that could be ordered on a single occasion . |
| 25 | He accepts as a basic premise the truth of all world religions , and he acknowledges the benefit that could be derived from a sympathetic study of the Scriptures of different faiths . |
| 26 | He also believes that Israel , and the Soviet Union , are among the countries that could be addressed by a joint Euro-foreign-policy . |
| 27 | However , although it doubtless contains some forms that are simply ‘ errors ’ , it also exhibits the kind of orderly variation that could be captured within a variable rule framework , but in spelling variation rather than phonology . |
| 28 | In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , the greatest honour that could be conferred upon a scientist , and one rarely given to a zoologist . |
| 29 | Any job that could be fully prepared for in advance is , by definition , a job that could be exported to a low-wage country or programmed into robots and computers ; a routine job is a job destined to disappear . |
| 30 | Not one thing that could be proved in a court of law , of course . |