Example sentences of "could [verb] be put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do . |
| 2 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 3 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 4 | This showed conclusively that Thoresby 's contents were far more complete than had previously been realized and , with relatively little rearrangement , could have been put back as they appeared in early photographs . |
| 5 | This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides . |
| 6 | Under the new Dangerous Dogs Act , Cleo could have been put down , but the court accepted her owner 's plea that she had been deliberately and maliciously let out of a shed , and set a new precedent by allowing the dog to go back to her family . |
| 7 | One might well have imagined that an exhibition such as the one recently at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt ( and now at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam ) , dealing with the Russian Avant-garde , could have been put on in Leipzig , Dresden or at least East Berlin with the necessary detachment of course . |
| 8 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 9 | The serious disadvantages to which the plaintiffs could have been put in that action were ( 1 ) the possible forfeiture of their right to do business within the state until the tax was paid . |
| 10 | ‘ That could have been put more tactfully , could n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ What would have been the latest time that the body could have been put in and carried away ? ’ |
| 12 | " Of course , he could have been put in somewhere on the flood and been carried upstream and then down again . |
| 13 | " There are places up there where he could have been put in all right without attracting too much attention . " |
| 14 | The consequence of those legal manoeuvres is to deny other London boroughs a massive capital receipt which could have been put to good use on behalf of charge payers . |
| 15 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 16 | He could have been put there by the interior decorators . |
| 17 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 18 | This matter could have been put forward . |
| 19 | ‘ The energies expended on continually fighting for funding could have been put to more practical use but the decision vindicates that effort , ’ she said . |
| 20 | As far as national activities are concerned we have the greatest difficulty in getting a delegate to attend the tri-annual meeting in Birmingham this year and many members thought the money spent could have been put to better use . |
| 21 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |