Example sentences of "could [be] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 2 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
| 3 | He was aware that they could be setting out on a wild-goose chase , but he had to believe that they were n't . |
| 4 | A company which claims to train a third of all motorcyclists in the country could be setting up a school at Langbaurgh 's Wheelbase complex at South Bank after winning council support . |
| 5 | On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel . |
| 6 | In the next three years , 300 more local radio stations could be set up , catering for local tastes , to ‘ broaden the range of programmes available ’ . |
| 7 | By the end of the nineties , we could be set for the first Oscars awarded to synthetic actors . |
| 8 | Representatives from the CBI and the CIA suggested that a European audit body could be set up to ensure that national bodies were enforcing legislation requirements . |
| 9 | Indeed the whole issue of Sabbath observance could be set for a return to fashion . |
| 10 | It may be possible to gain access to past records so that a realistic assessment can be made of achievable levels ; alternatively , in the absence of any historical data , utopian levels ( eg 100% ) could be set initially , then modified if the auditing process highlights that they are unattainable . |
| 11 | The interpretation depends on the fact that trusts could be set up without addressing the trustee directly . |
| 12 | The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them . |
| 13 | Progressive emergence of partnership forces , combined with provisional intentions and priorities , will clear the ground for tasks and levels of partnership at which they could be set to be identified . |
| 14 | In 1942 , after a long preamble once again accusing the government of ‘ favouritism ’ towards the Masai , he asked in the Legislative Council if a thousand square miles of Masailand could be set aside for ‘ settlement of fighting services personnel , when their job of destroying our foul enemies , who would make slaves of the Masai , is completed ’ . |
| 15 | Perhaps an emergency line could be set up to raise money for them . |
| 16 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 17 | THE Premier League could be set for a £30 million-plus windfall if negotiations to sell television rights worldwide are concluded this week . |
| 18 | This would be an expensive and very long-term project , but sooner or later one of the probes would encounter an extraterrestrial civilization — assuming there are any — and communications could be set up . |
| 19 | The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course . |
| 20 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 21 | Finally , towards the end of the evaluation , a number of visits were made to interview and observe in schools outside our sample , simply to provide some comparative experience against which our depth studies could be set . |
| 22 | After the war , Unionist candidates with commissions , good war records and decorations made the most of their advantages , especially when they could be set against opponents who had opposed the war or stayed at home . |
| 23 | The US government had hoped that some form of non-Communist coalition government could be set up in post-war China , and General Marshall had led a mission to achieve this end in 1946 . |
| 24 | First , and optimally , price could be set equal to marginal costs . |
| 25 | The first of these objections to the Baker — Hacker interpretation can be answered by saying that although the practice which constitutes knowing and following the rule for pain could be operated away from any community ( on a desert island ) if it could be set up , the problem is not in the operation but in the institution of the practice . |
| 26 | If , per impossibile , the language could be set up , it could be operated in the absence of a community to regulate it . |
| 27 | Statements of attainment could be set out in very general terms , permitting a great variety of learning routes and greater autonomy for teachers in the classroom , but they would run the risk of being uninterpretable by SAT developers and teachers , or , given the political imperative to produce national assessments , interpretable in an arbitrary fashion . |
| 28 | After 13 weeks of inpatient care the health authority would charge a fixed fee , which could be set at the eightieth percentile of the fees charged by the private sector within a set area , or £500 per week . |
| 29 | Some examples of what could be set up : |
| 30 | Bathing , for instance , had to be forbidden along the fashionable coastline ; some ecologists even suggested that Estonian drinking water was so polluted it could be set on fire ! |