Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | OFFICIALS of Amerada Hess , the US oil group which has been involved in developing several North Sea projects , warned yesterday that its drilling programme could be cut in half by tax changes proposed in the Budget . |
| 2 | Conversely , as the ( mainly Italian ) school of ‘ criminal anthropology ’ purported to prove , the criminal , the anti-social , the socially underprivileged , belonged to a different and inferior human strain from the ‘ respectable ’ , and could be recognised as such by measuring the skull or in other simple ways . |
| 3 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 4 | The very act of concluding a conflicting treaty would constitute breach and could be treated as such by its other parties . |
| 5 | By the late 1820s Geoffroy was arguing that one animal form could be transformed into another by natural processes — not by the accumulation of slight modifications , but by a sudden switching of the growth process so that the development of the individual proceeded in a new direction to mature as a new modification of the basic pattern . |
| 6 | There was no overt anti-semitism before 1932 , although calls for the purification of race and criticism of moneylending no doubt could be interpreted as such by those who saw the hidden hand of the Jews everywhere . |
| 7 | Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy |