Example sentences of "[noun pl] could be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that the potential of visits to project schools could be realised in a number of ways . |
| 2 | ‘ B/2 ’ type trolley masts whose heads could be turned through a full circle . |
| 3 | Premiums could be cut by a fifth if consultants passed on savings they have made with the increase of private work , said the Norwich Union . |
| 4 | Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work . |
| 5 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 6 | Despite the enterprise and labour put into its acquisition it has been estimated that all the gold won between the mid-fifteenth and mid-twentieth centuries could be contained in a cube of fifteen yards . |
| 7 | As for how many personal computers could be supported by a local network-connected PS/2 , the company admits that it simply wo n't know until the code is finished , but the implication is that it will be many more than 40 , and that the local network might run out of capacity before the server will . |
| 8 | The notion that clients could be rated on a dimension of how worried they were about their symptoms of stress ( physical , cognitive , behavioural ) as opposed to how worried they were about factors which caused those symptoms ( Stress 's , Life Events , etc. ) is an interesting and as yet unexplored area . |
| 9 | In many parts of the Kandyan Kingdom both civil and criminal disputes could be taken to a gamsabhava , or village council which attempted to bring about an amicable settlement . |
| 10 | ( If more volume really were needed then the direct outputs could be fed to a stereo power amp and then to additional speakers , but I 'm sure Marshall have aimed the S80 at a specific player who would find its volume adequate and who , if he or she needed more , would probably upgrade to a more powerful Marshall product . ) |
| 11 | Under English law , ordinary passers-by could be required by a constable to come to his assistance in making an arrest , failure to do so being a punishable offence . |
| 12 | The Welbeck reclamation and landfill project proposes to divert 2km of the River Calder from Kirkthorpe weir to Stanley Ferry to run alongside the Aire & Calder Navigation ( p 31 ) with a new weir above Stanley Ferry although hydraulic considerations could be handled with a series of riffles in the rock-lined river channel , The site will have landscaping , washlands , mineral extraction and disposal of 1,000,000t of colliery spoil , power station waste ash , sewage sludge and domestic refuse to serve a large area for many years . |
| 13 | Because the range of possible adaptations was unlimited , the relationships could be represented as a branching tree-like pattern , with new branches being added whenever some totally new ( and unpredictable ) form of animal life was discovered . |
| 14 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 15 | Hopes rose this week that further strike action at north London 's Alice Hoffman Homes could be averted after a meeting between NALGO and management at ACAS . |
| 16 | VXM claims a CPU-intensive subroutine created using PVM and executing on a cluster of mixed network environments could be accessed by a applications running on systems running ToolTalk services . |
| 17 | The survey of tax practitioners who are members of the institute , part of a research project at Bristol University , found that NIC compliance costs were unnecessarily high and considerable savings could be made without a fundamental change in Government policy . |
| 18 | Instead , trials could be heard by a panel of judges or juries especially selected for their ability to understand the complexities of cases against corporations . |
| 19 | But others in the Surinamese capital speculated the mercenaries could be connected with a Colombian drug baron , who escaped from custody last week , Mr Haakmat said . |
| 20 | Some of Scotland 's most beautiful areas could be threatened following a recent government decision |
| 21 | These excellent distance learner texts could be used on a modular basis , allowing candidates to study for the purpose of expanding their knowledge to obtain a qualification , or to meet the needs of their work . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) Although some of the sung texts could be interpreted in a serious way , the dramatic situation is such as to cast them in a comic , or even burlesque , light . |
| 23 | It looks as if almost 50 per cent of the errors could be cured by a systematic consideration of prefixes and suffixes , of most common spelling of diphthongs , and by encouraging the habit of checking guesses , especially about diphthongs and digraphs like wh. ( see also Exceptions to the rule , page 16 . ) |
| 24 | Portable models could be hung from a ring on the rim so that the datum line was horizontal . |
| 25 | In a letter to the London Evening News of the late 1920s , Hitchcock expresses his own sense of how Hollywood models could be redeployed in a British context : |
| 26 | Retreating ice shelves could be expected as a result of global warming , but are not in themselves evidence of it . |
| 27 | It would be a mistake , in Gandhi 's view , to allow ahi sā to become a fetish , and not to kill in certain circumstances could be regarded as a form of hi sā rather than ahi sā . |
| 28 | Cayley took a set of equations such as unc and enclosed each side in brackets , so that two equal columns could be connected by a single equality sign . |
| 29 | The current trend for publicly sited artworks could be viewed as a by-product of the postmodernist influences in the art world . |
| 30 | The inputs of the two amps could be switched with a commercially available A/B switching box . |