Example sentences of "could be [verb] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders .
2 If the birds do peck through the foil bottle tops , doctors warn against drinking the milk as it could be contaminated with the bug .
3 It could be worn with the sword belt on the outside ; and the either the forage or the field headgear .
4 But this shirt could be worn with the skirt , could n't it ?
5 An area in England could be contrasted with the experience in Wales or Scotland .
6 These could be connected with the telegraph wires alongside the track , so that communication could be established as necessary with the nearest signal-box or with central control .
7 Given Labour 's espousal of the goal of a united Ireland , albeit by the consent of the people , it is hard to believe any accommodation could be reached with the Ulster Unionists .
8 He also announced the possibility of further large cuts if an agreement could be reached with the Commonwealth of Independent States [ see also pp. 38744-45 ] .
9 It could be charged with the task of determining priorities for primary care funding .
10 Nevertheless , in one significant respect an important modification to the common law rule could be seen with the proposal for a new s15A of SGA 1979 .
11 Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was .
12 Museums like the Science Museum now built up collections of enormous value to the historian of science , for the provenance of the pieces is known , and we can only judge past science when we know what could be done with the tools available .
13 Whether it could be done with the thought-bubble
14 The length of these lines , measured in squares , represented the number of carriages or wagons that could be built with the material available .
15 Health union officials say as many as a hundred and fifty jobs could be lost with the closure of the hospital which was confirmed last week after months of speculation .
16 But Blumlein invented a completely different microphone technique , the ‘ coincident ’ technique ( 17 ) , and showed how compatible mono recordings and ‘ 45/45 ’ stereo discs ( eventually adopted as the world standard in 1958 ) could be obtained with the technique .
17 He believed that the two operations could be run with the staff of about ten employed by Pittencrieff at its office in Abilene , Texas , after closing Aberdeen 's office in Denver , Colorado , which has between ten and 15 staff .
18 They fervently believed that social phenomena could be analysed with the methods of the natural sciences , which enjoyed great prestige in the last decades of the nineteenth century .
19 Equally , what kind of bargain could be struck with the Conservatives if the dominant tendency in the party remained Thatcherite Right wing ?
20 If Brian sued John for negligence he could be met with the defences of volenti non fit injuria and contributory negligence .
21 Around 400 jobs could be created with the building of 12 units behind the Park Foods complex at Bidston , Birkenhead .
22 Up to four hundred jobs could be created with the development of a new holiday village .
23 It was found that increases in protein synthesis and breakdown could be correlated with the progression of disease severity , as judged by erythrocyte sedimentation rate and clinical symptoms .
24 Letters A-F could be paired with the symbols in Fig. 5.4 and then a string of random letters , say BCEFADDB etc , would be required to be coded by use of the relevant symbol .
25 Warton , in his book The History of English Poetry , published in the 1680s , wrote , ‘ Antient chemistry made people fancy that bodies could be preserved with the resemblance of real life , by means of a precious liquor circulating through every part in golden tubes artificially disposed , and operating on the principles of vegetation . ’
26 For example , a simple XXX pattern could be knitted with the background in stripes of eight rows each of red , pale grey , white , with the X design worked constantly in black .
27 The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description .
28 Speaking of the maximum number of jobs of 21,000 that could be associated with the Ove Arup proposal , British Rail says that these jobs would largely represent a redistribution of economic activity in Kent and London rather than the creation of new economic activity .
29 Thus , the loss of [ h ] could be associated with the contact situation in general , regardless of the specific properties of the contact languages .
30 Evans had also provided a note of some cases from other countries where crimes of violence could be associated with the playing of such games .
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