Example sentences of "it could [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as the ‘ southern enlargement ’ extended the European ideal , created a larger market for goods , and protected democracy it could be seen as a success . |
| 2 | Honey 's work also presents difficulties for the viewer : on the surface it could be seen as a further exploitation of the female either as a child or a woman , but this would not do this work justice . |
| 3 | We should therefore be suspicious of any expository textbook which presents the criminal law as if it could be stated in a finite number of propositions from which all solutions could ultimately be derived without further choices at the point of application . |
| 4 | Or it could be related to a third confounding variable such as personality and this latter variable related to risk of depression ( Figure 4.3C ) . |
| 5 | Toyota has so much cash that it could be mistaken for a mini-bank , not a carmaker . |
| 6 | HCIMA 's technical Advisory Group ( TAG ) published a technical brief entitled BS5750 — Quality system Guidelines , designed to give an overview of British Standards ( BS ) 5750 and suggest how it could be applied to a hotel and catering operation . |
| 7 | This version of a marketable discharge licence process employs a national airshed , but it could be applied at a state or local level and for other pollutants in the future . |
| 8 | The concept of geographical provinces may have gained some currency because it could be understood as a biological equivalent of the nations of humanity — and the early nineteenth century was a period of strong nationalist feelings . |
| 9 | By turning the show into a theatrical display , Laura felt comfortable ; it was so far removed from reality that it could be viewed as a staged drama with no intention of portraying a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ customer in real life . |
| 10 | Several colleagues remember her habit of turning a design to one side and the other and back again lest anything in it could be viewed as a tiny insect or wild animal 's eyes , thus creating horrible fear for an imaginative child . |
| 11 | Once she turned a pattern on its side and discovered it could be viewed as a swastika ; it was therefore rejected . |
| 12 | The mechanism of this effect remains unclear , although it could be viewed as a genetically determined vitamin dependent state rather than a vitamin-deficiency condition . |
| 13 | The government therefore took its stand on the position that the confidentiality rule operated between members of the Cabinet and in the general context of a minister 's official duties , and that it could be invoked in a court of law to restrain revelations of Cabinet and other official discussions . |
| 14 | If a corn was offensive it could be tackled with a razor blade ; a nasty spot attracted the iodine bottle or a dab of TCP ; fever could , in my father 's words , ‘ be sweated out ’ . |
| 15 | Some of it could be ascribed to a basic weakness in the Council of Ministers ' decision-making machinery . |
| 16 | While this transformation depends fundamentally on workers ' initiatives it could be aided by a government using the financing relation ( 4 ) as a means of leverage . |
| 17 | From this it was concluded that , although the principles of identifying systemic information links by this method appeared sound and it could be achieved to a limited extent by using the facilities of a flat-file database , it would not be cost-effective to pursue without access to more sophisticated technology . |
| 18 | The message of de Gaulle the politician was that national renewal did not have to succeed national disaster ; it could be achieved through a reform in the organization of the French state . |
| 19 | Trevor Isles who 's Deputy Clerk to the Justices in north Oxfordshire is also confident the unit fine system will be fairer , he says ‘ if successful , it could be adopted on a national scale ’ . |
| 20 | There are several reasons for this ‘ regression towards the mean ’ ; it could be based on a genetic process , or it could be because a father ( mother ) who is above the mean in ability marries on average someone who is less able than he ( she ) , and so the child , reflecting the ability of both parents , is less able than the father ( mother ) . |
| 21 | These , and other changes , all contributed to the doubling of productivity within those six years , and he is optimistic that it could be trebled as a result of the fast , electronic and computer assisted information that is now available . |
| 22 | It could be replaced with a principle of accountability to ‘ committed ’ stakeholders . |
| 23 | It could be likened to a carefully positioned set of film stills . |
| 24 | But it could be made into a poster . |
| 25 | fix a roof on it it could be made into a very attractive rural type property , it it 's typical of the kind of property which in a village we 're dying for |
| 26 | It could be made by a public declaration in a large meeting , such as a council , or in the comparative privacy of the pope 's household , perhaps in the dictation of a letter . |
| 27 | Indeed , it could be regarded as a measure of the previous work how little needs doing after the pilot . |
| 28 | Obviously , the case was stronger than the one actually provided for , so it could be regarded as a fortiori . |
| 29 | It could be handled as a problem of vital statistics , housing administration , minimum wage legislation , child nutrition , national insurance , teachers ' salary scales , coal mining economics , feminism , social philosophy or pure finance ’ ( Stocks , 1949 , p. 102 ) . |
| 30 | There was a nasty silence and Kate felt that the atmosphere was now so heavy with unspoken words that it could be cut with a knife . |