Example sentences of "could be [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , at this point , the proposal that a computer index could be developed to improve the management of filing systems generally was considered worthwhile , and this became the focus of the early part of the study . |
| 2 | Dr Kieran Breen , who heads the research team , said it was hoped a simpler , faster test could be developed to detect the onset of Alzheimer 's at an earlier age . |
| 3 | For those who asked themselves ‘ Can we afford it ? ’ and knew the answer was No , there were a greater number of tempting schemes , through which they could be led to believe the answer was Yes . |
| 4 | Prime Minister Tanaka 's Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago published in 1972 symbolized a hope that a fundamental restructuring could be achieved to improve the quality of life in Japan . |
| 5 | Secondly , they were able to devote more effort to materials supply and inventory issues inside the plant — areas where considerable savings could be achieved given the product cost structure . |
| 6 | Mcloughlin and Brown emphasise that this exercise must be undertaken after due consultation with all those involved , recognising that such matters as customer satisfaction can not be addressed without the involvement of the customer , who could be asked to score the quality of the service provided . |
| 7 | This person could be asked to feed the fish , but unless they are a fishkeeper the amount to give at each feed should be measured into a polythene bag or envelope . |
| 8 | It could be asked to view the site where a particular incident occurred although the expense of leaving the courtroom is unlikely to be justified where a photograph or a detailed description would suffice . |
| 9 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 10 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 11 | Bill Toone , the project leader , spent countless hours in the wild , watching how the birds behave , so that the mannerisms could be duplicated using the puppets . |
| 12 | Thus there is probably little extinction in the light available for photosynthesis , but possibly the same ideas could be applied to analyse the light reaching the camera . |
| 13 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 14 | Some of the strategies used could be made to explain the primacy effect found . |
| 15 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 16 | The following discussion investigates improvements which could be made to augment the pattern recognition information . |
| 17 | Thus the nature of liberal support , conveniently for conservatives , could be made to rob the work of the Cadiz liberals of any claim to represent the nation : liberalism appeared the vested interest of a ruthless political minority , ‘ the criminal conspiracy of a handful of facciosos ’ . |
| 18 | Their Lordships recognised that the power to make grants contained within section 3 conferred a wide discretion , and that such grants could be made to supplement the revenue received by the L.T.E. from fares . |
| 19 | The purpose of the review was to identify areas in which adjustments could be made to bring the state into greater harmony with traditional social structures . |
| 20 | A suitable form of wording could be devised to avoid the risk of inviting a flood of claims , spurious or genuine . |
| 21 | From these histograms , a probability cut off point could be selected to maximise the proportions of correctly predicted successes and failures . |
| 22 | Plans for new TV shows could be shelved to stop the Beeb overspending its £700 million budget . |
| 23 | The role of the teacher could be expanded to encompass the role of researcher . |
| 24 | I do n't know if any of them could be bribed to poison the water . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That is disgraceful because we know that , if resources were made available to extend the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh and provide the promised new hospital in Leith , many more nurses and other medics could be employed to provide the service that they are trained to provide . |
| 27 | CURL up in a cosy country cottage in one of Britain 's beauty spots and you could be helping preserve the nation 's heritage . |
| 28 | After some enquiries from Peter Thomas , who at that time was in the process of forming the Skyfame Aircraft Museum at Staverton , Glos , the Swedish company decided to donate the Firefly to the Museum , providing that sufficient funds could be raised to finance the flight from Sweden to England . |
| 29 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |
| 30 | Quite clearly the bombs could be seen leaving the aircraft ; sometimes one , sometimes two , sometimes even a salvo of four — small grey forms . |