Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [be] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This analogy could be extended to the source and application of funds statement . |
| 2 | The association could be related to the question of landownership and the availability of labour , and may have nothing whatever to do with markets . |
| 3 | Regulations governing trade and industry could be turned to the profit of courtiers and officials . |
| 4 | The problem of conserving the noble land fund was the central preoccupation of a high-powered ministerial conference which Nicholas set up in 1897 to consider what further aid could be given to the nobility . |
| 5 | But his stable revealed that the 10-year-old could be diverted to the Hackett Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow over a distance just over half a mile shorter than the Mackeson . |
| 6 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 7 | Any man who did not do his work could be reported to the police and might go to gaol for a week or so . |
| 8 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 9 | Before , however , the plan could be put to the test preliminary peace terms had been agreed and England 's victory in the Seven Years War was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763 . |
| 10 | President Gorbachev 's green fifth column could be returned to the fantasy-land it came from . |
| 11 | Its aim , outlined at its first meeting on 17 December 1940 , was ‘ to agree on the Railway Shops and how much reserve capacity could be allowed to the various Supply Departments . ’ |
| 12 | Almost a hundred years later the Levellers , in the Putney debates , were to reach deadlock over the problem whether men without an assured livelihood could be admitted to the political nation . |
| 13 | Great damage could be caused to the prospects of the adult education centres , where currently vocational and so-called leisure courses exist happily side by side . |
| 14 | RADICAL proposals to cut the Premier League to 18 teams and introduce a Second Division could be put to the vote today . |
| 15 | If coherence of this kind could be brought to the conduct of government policy , the prospects for the economy remain far from forlorn . |
| 16 | It was five years , and thirteen full years after the passing of the Act , before the same opportunity could be extended to the girls . |
| 17 | But there were differences as to how best the opportunity could be given to the young people . |
| 18 | Payment could be made to the monarch himself or it could be made to the current holder of the office . |
| 19 | If the modern educational system was administered by a Dickensian Squeers constantly flagellating discalced pupils , theory could be neatly shelved and a pragmatic response could be given to the perceived problem . |
| 20 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 21 | Freud thought it was difficult to see how communism could be generalized to the whole world , unless national rivalries could cope with aggression without full-scale wars . |
| 22 | We are long past the stage where talk about the curriculum could be left to the academics ; beyond the stage where the views of the professions and the wider society had to be sought . |
| 23 | Sharpe 's 1963 article put forward the idea that the return of any security could be related to the return of the market . |
| 24 | Also on Sept. 18 UK Prime Minister John Major referred in a television interview to " fault lines in the ERM revealed over the past few days " , and said that there was no imminent prospect of the UK returning to the ERM , which itself needed reform , while Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger said in Washington on Sept. 21 that serious negotiations would be needed before sterling could be readmitted to the ERM . |
| 25 | The leader could be matched to the situation which suited his/her style or the situation could be changed to suit the particular style . |
| 26 | And membership could be offered to the reforming economies of Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | In a move variously described as ‘ ghoulish ’ , ‘ Machiavellian ’ and ‘ sick ’ , Mr Creed , it was alleged , had orchestrated this posthumous resignation , instructing expert embalmers to preserve the corpse and even arranging a photo session two days after Sir Charles 's death ( Sir Charles 's lifeless arm around Mr Creed 's shoulders ) so a picture could be released to the press along with a transcript of the letter of resignation . |
| 28 | The raised planting shelf could be siliconed to the back of the tank , with vertical braces , for a more permanent installation . |
| 29 | Today it is definitely a premier cru , and if one of the more classic varieties of Pinot Noir or Chardonnay could be exploited to the full on this favourable slope , its 90% classification would certainly be upgraded . |
| 30 | This concept could be applied to the machine-readable database in very literal ways . |