Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triticale breeders were keen to make the plant insensitive to day length so that it could be grown successfully at the Equator as well as in temperate regions . |
| 2 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 3 | In order that the correct quantity of numbered questionnaires could be despatched close to the course end date , organisers were asked to advise [ MS on the number of SERC supported students still on the course , and the number of non-SERC " home " students completing in 1984 . |
| 4 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 5 | The controversy hinged around whether Convocation could be summoned only by the King or had to be convened as of right when Parliament sat , and thus raised questions concerning the autonomy of the Church and the extent of the Crown 's ecclesiastical prerogatives . |
| 6 | While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises . |
| 7 | The NMR solution structure for domain 1 ( ref.16 ) could be placed immediately in the electron density to give a very good fit . |
| 8 | Such an ambitious programme , which could have at least some negative consequences in the member states , could be achieved only under the supervision of a supranational authority with the necessary powers to determine what the policies of the member states ought to be . |
| 9 | The lack of an overall majority in the 252-member House of Councillors ( the upper chamber ) for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , however , meant that the bill 's approval could be achieved only with the co-operation of some of the opposition parties . |
| 10 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 11 | As has been noted earlier , TANU 's cadres felt that nation-building could be achieved only through the control of the centre — a view which extended itself to the press . |
| 12 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 13 | Peace and security , they argued , could be achieved only by the creation of some effective international authority able to override the selfish or aggressive impulses of any individual ruler and to persuade him , if necessary by force , to respect the rights of his neighbours . |
| 14 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 15 | This is clearly wider than the circumstances outlined by Lord Denning in Ghani where the seizure of the evidence which was totally unconnected with the investigation could be justified partly by the seriousness of the offence in question . |
| 16 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 17 | Texas 's on-board video circuitry is excellent for vanilla VGA and for all my eyes tell me , I could be hacking away at the Hyundai . |
| 18 | Neither of these could be assumed merely from the conclusion of the treaty . |
| 19 | But Malebranche rejected various parts of Descartes 's proof , concluding that theoretically the material world was no more than a possibility , and could be accepted only on the basis of faith . |
| 20 | but her statement could be applied simply to the love she feels for Paris , which will both morally and physically ‘ undo ’ Trojan society . |
| 21 | Parents could be involved sooner in the childrens ' educations . |
| 22 | Far more cross-cultural research , of the type suggested by Cole and Scribner for instance ( ibid. ) , would be necessary before any useful generalisations could be made even about the relative functions and worth of the various parts of these different systems ( such as their punctuation conventions ) . |
| 23 | The climb was so steep that in places it could be made only with the help of ropes . |
| 24 | But such appointments could be made only to the staff of university extra-mural departments and Approved Associations were excluded . |
| 25 | The first was that such privileges could be secured only with the sanction of the other powers ; this had been clearly demonstrated by the Triple Intervention . |
| 26 | Would it not make administrative sense if at least part of this site could be reserved specifically for the British Library so that in any future extension , these units could be incorporated ? |
| 27 | These were safer than petrol engines , more suitable because they could be run more slowly and could be connected directly to the propeller . |
| 28 | And no one , he argued in terms that could have come straight from John Stuart Mill , could have a monopoly of the truth , either in asking questions or answering them ; it could be determined only through the interplay of argument . |
| 29 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 30 | Holborn could be reached directly by the Central Line , she discovered from a wall plan . |