Example sentences of "could [adv] be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave it as his opinion in 1926 , shortly before Browne 's inglorious departure , that the current state of affairs in Masai District represented ‘ indirect administration in its purest form ’ , and thought this happy circumstance could mostly be credited to Browne , whom the Masai ‘ greatly respect and honour ’ . |
| 2 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 3 | A dangerous junction in Darlington could soon be closed to motorists after a series of accidents . |
| 4 | Councillors heard last night that the junction of Orchard Road and Hollyhurst Road , near Darlington Memorial Hospital , could soon be closed to cars . |
| 5 | Flushed with success after his appearance on the Indie panel at the recent CMJ seminar in New York , new skid on the block SHITMAN could soon be coming to England as a new face on yoof TV . |
| 6 | The world 's biggest civil engineering project could soon be coming to Darlington , a cabinet minister said this week . |
| 7 | In a meeting with Baker on Nov. 14 , however , Roh said that a " two-plus-four " solution could not be applied to Korea . |
| 8 | A single regional band could not be applied to Yorkshire , with council tax prices set against a regional band for , say , London and the south-east . |
| 9 | It was immediately much regretted that the death penalty could not be applied to burglars and footpads , and the prison system was the object of particularly fierce criticism . |
| 10 | She leaned closer to Alice , so that Alice could smell a warm perfume , reminiscent of a flower , the name of which could not be called to mind . |
| 11 | However , the sluggish and top-heavy bureaucratic apparatus of the City Council could not be moved to action . |
| 12 | Other points of the agreement outlined at the press conference included the concession that although West German troops could be stationed in East Germany , NATO structures could not be extended to East German territory as long as Soviet soldiers remained there . |
| 13 | The senate decreed that B could not be asked to institute C heir : yet it appeared that in this way A had asked that B should make over A 's estate to C , that is to make over to him whatever B had obtained from A 's estate . |
| 14 | There is no reason why the same multiple-ostinato usage could not be adapted to serialism , with the same lucid results . |
| 15 | She felt every housewife 's fury when the guests could not be got to table and the food was ready . |
| 16 | Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law at King 's College , London , who gave the 1980 Reith lecture on medical ethics , felt that firmer legal guidelines were required to ensure that handicapped babies were not left to die , and that the decision could not be left to parents and doctors . |
| 17 | Moreover , the Commission considered that the social benefits that would accrue from economic developments arising from the internal market could not be left to chance . |
| 18 | The analyst noted that , since these were first time pregnancies , the increase in complications with age could not be attributed to parity . |
| 19 | Although evil could not be attributed to Ahura Mazdah , its existence had to be accounted for , and Zarathustra explained it in terms of free will . |
| 20 | It was a piece of pure mathematics that could easily be applied to letters and pictures on a page . |
| 21 | ‘ For heaven 's sakes ! ’ he exclaimed , shocked to find that his wife , usually acidly in command of herself and of anyone else who came near her , could possibly be reduced to tears . |
| 22 | George Brown , minister of the ill-fated Department of Economic Affairs , even believed that with American aid the British economy could quickly be restored to health . |
| 23 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 24 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 25 | In 1990 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys has told me , there were 150 deaths in England and Wales that could reasonably be attributed to liver failure after paracetamol overdosage , and of these , 119 were either certain or probable suicides . |
| 26 | The methane of the coal seam could also be oxidized to formaldehyde , the basis of the acetal polymers , or even to higher alcohols — the other half of the polyester molecule . |
| 27 | This approach could also be linked to reforms that require private sector companies to make over regular , but small parts of the total value of their capital to such a scheme . |
| 28 | Eventually men could probably be readmitted to positions of influence , provided they had somehow overcome their taste for violence , greed , rape and power for its own sake . |
| 29 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |
| 30 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |