Example sentences of "they could be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 2 | Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence . |
| 3 | During this time , churches were frequently the private property of a local lord , they were part of the resources of an estate , and any revenue from them could be used by the owner . |
| 4 | If the trees waited for the onset of cold weather before starting to shed , they could be damaged by the shortfall in water by the time the process was complete . |
| 5 | With the city in such a ferment , they could be stopped on a whim by police or soldiers . |
| 6 | Those involved in private care should arrange among themselves how they could be represented in the local planning process because if they are going to be covered by the planning arrangements then natural justice suggests that they should have an input in to the planning process . |
| 7 | They could be asked about the improvements that metal tools could bring , Through discussions like these , pupils should be brought to realise that what people could do in the past was often limited by their technology . |
| 8 | I often hear and read stories of anglers spending weeks on end in search of Fenland zander with very little to show for it and yet with a little thought they could be catching on a regular basis . |
| 9 | It was asked , when the estate had been entered in accordance with the second will , whether the debtors who had been released in the first will could secure that they should be released even from debt which they had begun to owe after the first will , and if , should the heirs try to sue for it , they could be debarred by a defence of bad faith . |
| 10 | Landscapes were empty and without meaning unless they could be related to an inner view , to a feeling of emptiness or apprehension , a sadness , a surge of hope , an ecstasy . |
| 11 | They could be viewed as the organ within the living organism whose task it was to supply the basic necessity of capital without any need to accord them a fuller role within the enterprise . |
| 12 | They were not thought particularly interesting , until , in 1952 , Herring and Galt chanced to bend some tin whiskers and noticed that they could be bent to a strain of about 2 per cent and still recover elastically . |
| 13 | Some commentators suggest that the power deters supporters from rebellion since they would be reluctant to create a situation in which they could be faced with an arduous election campaign that could jeopardise their seats . |
| 14 | The worst moments of Clara 's domestic life were not in fact those moments at which domestic indifference fronted her most blankly and sheerly , for they could be faced by an equally stony frontage — they were those which bore witness to hidden chinks and faults , deep within the structure . |
| 15 | If the cicadas erupted every 14 years , for instance , they could be exploited by a parasite species with a 7-year life cycle . |
| 16 | In the French war of 1294–8 , as we shall see , they could be exploited by the king-duke so that French occupation of the whole of the duchy was effectively prevented . |
| 17 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 18 | Advertisements may range in size from a small window notice to a massive hoarding ; they vary in purpose from a bus stop sign to the demand to buy a certain make of detergent ; they could be situated alongside a cathedral , in a busy shopping street , or in a particularly beautiful rural setting ; they might be pleasant or obnoxious to look at ; they might be temporary or permanent ; and so on . |
| 19 | Gas-operated and self-loading from a thirty-round magazine , they could be fired from the shoulder or the hip . |
| 20 | They could be likened to the dynamic force of a volcanic eruption . |
| 21 | Later chapters will consider some of these issues as they could be affected by the Alternative Religion . |
| 22 | This was reinforced by the tendency of national governments not to handle unpopular decisions if they could be transferred to the High Authority for action . |
| 23 | Three of the pictures in this issue of BAIE News were taken by Ian Billinghurst on the DCS200 , but a lot of work was needed before they could be transferred from the computer system at the BAIE convention to the system at Hardman Press Services . |
| 24 | Once formed in place , they could be extracted by the Frasch process — pumping superheated stream down a borehole to blow them to the surface in molten form . |
| 25 | They could be seen as a bridge forming an almost tangible link between the ‘ two worlds ’ of spirit and matter . |
| 26 | Natural high points were emphasized by mounds , often slightly off the hilltop , so that they could be seen from the valley bottom . |
| 27 | Moreover , mothers may have encouraged children to play on the road surface where they could be seen from the kitchen window instead of on the grass at the front where they could not . |
| 28 | In the Isle of Wight , the development of care programme systems and the need for monitoring were seen to require an increase in ‘ IT and support staff input ’ , although it is not clear whether this represented additional resources , and if so whether they could be met from the MISG or elsewhere . |
| 29 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 30 | We decided to offer our trainees two days a week in our training centre , working towards the general SVQ , plus three days ' practical training in a work placement , where they could be assessed for the SVQ . |