Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 2 | Critics of Fiat therefore argued that its bid could be seen as a defensive move to improve its domestic position and , perhaps more importantly , to prevent a competitor from obtaining Italian production facilities , which in the long run could pose a threat to Fiat . |
| 3 | He also added drily that religion could be used as a tool of control if sufficient political and financial power was behind it . |
| 4 | It was a bit extreme , perhaps , but in his present predicament the fault could be turned into a virtue . |
| 5 | But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | Similarly , a garment originally designed with one type of sleeve could be loaded from disk and altered to have a different sleeve type , or a sweater could be converted to a cardigan . |
| 7 | At first , each gearbox only started rattling with a warmed up engine but each got worse until the rattle could be heard with a cold engine on revving up when stationary . |
| 8 | For John , on his endless round of visits to cuttings and embankments , tunnels and bridges , it was sometimes hard to believe that all this buzz of well-organized industry could be brought to a halt by the movement of bits of paper in the far-off City . |
| 9 | They do not like to think that such a brutal murder could be committed by a Scouser , but the more they think about it the more they believe that it was . |
| 10 | The document recognises that informal patronage could be seen as a response to widespread deficiencies in medical education , postgraduate training , appraisal , careers guidance , and appointments procedures . |
| 11 | The other day , when a new silver dinner service was commissioned for 10 Downing Street , I asked how much silver could be bought for a million pounds , which seemed a suitably round number . |
| 12 | Toby had a pencil with a blue one on the end it its scaly tail curled around the pencil and the head was spiked down the neck could be used as a rubber . |
| 13 | It was because the economy was as yet exhibiting a modest rate of overall growth ( by modern standards ) that investment could be undertaken on a private and regional basis with the state 's role confined to that of legal enablement . |
| 14 | Specialised materials , which Tootal promised would be an engine of growth , has yet to prove its worth , though continued heavy investment could be blamed for a 40 per cent fall in profits . |
| 15 | The capture of two 10lb bream from Grafham reservoir on fish imitating lures was treated as though the incidents were especially significant ; that lure fishing could be regarded as a specially good method for catching exceptionally big bream . |
| 16 | Curtis said that the Wheel could be accommodated in a shed in the police station yard , so Wycliffe left him to organise transport . |
| 17 | As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom . |
| 18 | In a small firm the programme could be administered by a company director , with the candidate again being supported by a line manager . |
| 19 | The result of each hybridisation experiment could be input as a list of the filter x-y coordinates of positive clones , or a list of positive microtitre well coordinates or the optical density value of each spot on the filter . |
| 20 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
| 21 | Therefore , whilst in theory the compact could be approved by a simple majority , in practice it required the removal of the anti-nuclear clauses from the Constitution , a process which required a 75 per cent vote in its favour . |
| 22 | If this is done carefully , the ends of the stopped chamfer template could be used as a useful small square . |
| 23 | Although the brief for the study could be regarded as a loose one , the full SSM was not formally applied by moving deliberately through each of the SSM stages , although in retrospect there were many similarities . |
| 24 | If the difficulties were restricted to one sector then the implications for future historical study could be placed within a restricted perspective , but this is not the case . |
| 25 | This study could be seen as a pilot study that gives an intimation that if one has the right methodology the data which is yielded can be richer than that created from other methods . |
| 26 | On the one hand , if the landlord has redevelopment plans or if a higher rent could be achieved on a reletting of a greater part of the building , it will be in the landlord 's interest to ensure that all tenancies are expressed to expire on the same date . |
| 27 | 5.9.5 On a permitted assignment to a private limited company and if the Landlord shall reasonably so require to procure that a guarantor or guarantors reasonably acceptable to the Landlord enter into direct covenants with the Landlord in the form of the Guarantor 's covenant contained in this Lease with " the Assignee " substituted for " the Tenant " There are various matters to be considered in connection with a permitted underlease ( not the least of which being as to whether the tenant should be allowed to underlet part or parts of the premises as well as to whole ) , eg : ( 1 ) In respect of any permitted underlease it is better to remove reference to the landlord 's approval of the rent reserved by it , and if possible ( particularly in a falling market ) to remove reference to the rent being no less than the passing rent under the lease , although the landlord will normally object to this on the basis that a low underlease rent could be used as a comparable on any subsequent rent review under the lease . |
| 28 | A false report of theft could be made to a next-door neighbour , perhaps to cover up for dealing with property wrongfully , and then the neighbour could make a genuine report to the police about the false theft , thereby causing police time to be wasted . |
| 29 | For these reasons , it will be necessary to have a much clearer understanding of the function of atk , and src genes in general , before somatic gene therapy could be proposed as a means of correcting the XLA defect in pre-B cells of the bone marrow . |
| 30 | The same cut could be achieved with a 100 cc reduction in the size of engines . |