Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [prep] a more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This issue could be developed into a more general consideration of whether police officers should be subject to more stringent codes or rules of behaviour than other people in society , given their position of authority ) . |
| 2 | They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme . |
| 3 | There 's the kind of repair and maintenance bit , which really could be handled at a more divisional level . |
| 4 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 5 | Chiaro , inevitably , finds herself distinguishing " dirty " jokes from " Irish " ; " political " jokes from " sick " ; and it would be very interesting indeed if a book could be written from a more socio-cultural perspective on such topics as subject , teller and listener . |
| 6 | The process could be halted here or it could be linked to a more comprehensive attempt at demilitarisation . |
| 7 | The attitude of the United Nations to the interim government could be established in a more direct fashion and more authoritatively . |
| 8 | this standard differed for each category and it is difficult to see how it could be translated into a more general form . |
| 9 | The next step was to realise and accept that the expertise and advice of the counter-insurgency specialists could be used for a more ambitious purpose than the discomfiture of terrorists — that it could be employed to destabilise the region and in the process to destroy the organisations and popular support of inconvenient , legitimate political opponents of the government . |