Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my anger breaks the glass , I could be smashed to smithereens . |
| 2 | On the way we stopped in many towns and villages , so that I could be shown to people . |
| 3 | Should the patient cease to accept treatment voluntarily and reject supervision , resulting in deterioration of his mental state , he or she could be recalled to hospital . |
| 4 | She died , aged 19 , in 1445 before she could be married to James Douglas , third Earl of Angus . |
| 5 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 6 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 7 | If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death . |
| 8 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
| 10 | The case was adjourned so they could be committed to Crown court for trial . |
| 11 | This second interpretation of the originally American concept of search , and how it could be applied to Britain , sees the business more from the client 's point of view than that of the would-be consultant . |
| 12 | Would not my right hon. Friend be insulting British farmers if he were to suggest that he should decimate the financial support available to them so that it could be given to M. Delors for use as a slush fund for so-called cohesion — a bribe to the countries of southern Europe ? |
| 13 | This is a deadly weapon and it could be resold to Iraq without our knowledge or consent . |
| 14 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 15 | Upstairs , Fleury had taken the pistol to pieces ( as far as it could be taken to pieces which did not seem to be very far ) and put it together again . |
| 16 | MEED cited the official , from the Agency for International Development ( USAID ) , as also hinting that US aid for fiscal 1991\92 was under review , and that " the contribution should be $24,000,000 , but now it could be reduced to $3,000,000 " . |
| 17 | A pilot scheme is operating in the north-east of England and if it is successful it could be introduced to Ulster . |
| 18 | The expected value of any bet such as this is given by the appropriate point on line C , and reading across from point X to curve A reveals that this gamble is only worth £210 with certainty to A , and £400 likewise to B. Thus suppose A were to win a lottery ticket carrying a 50 per cent chance of £1000 it could be sold to B for , say , £300 and both would feel better off ( before the final outcome had been revealed ) . |
| 19 | If this flow could be transported to North Wales , it would stand half as high as Snowdon ; if it could be transported to Surrey , it would be half as high again as the highest hill , and , such is the attraction of all high objects from mountains to the cost of living , it would be an important landmark , regularly thronged in summer with picnickers and ramblers , and would feature on scores of postcards . |
| 20 | A farmer who 's admitted almost thirty cases of cruelty to animals has been warned he could be sent to prison . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I have ; but when he confronts Richard he will be told that he could be taken to court ; he 's been at me for years . |
| 22 | But I never dreamed mine could be addicted to nicotine . ’ |