Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deadline for bids ended yesterday , and a decision could be reached in the next few weeks . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that more could be done in the first instance to prevent offences ? |
| 3 | The researcher could be heard in the next room , stalling on the telephone while he looked through the file for the references . |
| 4 | In retrospect it seems extraordinary that some of these could be prescribed in the first place . |
| 5 | Maternal phenylketonuria is an important problem since the advantages of screening in one generation could be lost in the next unless preventive treatment can be implemented in a high proportion of affected women . |
| 6 | The other approach was to switch the emphasis away from the development of new sources of electricity supply to the issue of how the demand for power could be controlled in the first place . |
| 7 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 8 | The temperature could be gauged in the second half at Wembley on Saturday . |
| 9 | Legislation allowing political parties could be introduced in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 10 | Worksheets could be distributed in the second half of the visit , once the group has had an opportunity to explore and react to the site . |