Example sentences of "[conj] could [be] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In 1778 England had 50,000 men in America and not 10,000 regulars at home that could be collected at any one given spot .
2 Extremely powerful local area networks will be needed to handle the kinds of data volumes that could be involved at any given moment .
3 A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time .
4 The P. pictus were very active and could be seen at all times of the day , the Bumble Bees were a lot more secretive and only ventured out to grab some quick grub and late at night .
5 Depending on the complexity of your operations this may only take a couple of man weeks and could be repeated at regular intervals to monitor progress .
6 This chapter is relatively free-standing , and could be read at any point after chapter 2 .
7 Development had started in 1958 on multiple warhead rocket vehicles ( MRVS ) which separate in flight and could be aimed at several different targets simultaneously .
8 He thought that the prairie grassland climax had been stable since the last ice age and could be restored at any time even after interference by humankind .
9 That deaf people marry other deaf people was not , as could be supposed at that time , a new phenomenon — it will be recalled from Chapter I that John Dyott married a deaf girl after the Civil War in 1645 .
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