Example sentences of "they could be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the trees waited for the onset of cold weather before starting to shed , they could be damaged by the shortfall in water by the time the process was complete . |
| 2 | Those involved in private care should arrange among themselves how they could be represented in the local planning process because if they are going to be covered by the planning arrangements then natural justice suggests that they should have an input in to the planning process . |
| 3 | They could be asked about the improvements that metal tools could bring , Through discussions like these , pupils should be brought to realise that what people could do in the past was often limited by their technology . |
| 4 | They could be viewed as the organ within the living organism whose task it was to supply the basic necessity of capital without any need to accord them a fuller role within the enterprise . |
| 5 | In the French war of 1294–8 , as we shall see , they could be exploited by the king-duke so that French occupation of the whole of the duchy was effectively prevented . |
| 6 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 7 | Gas-operated and self-loading from a thirty-round magazine , they could be fired from the shoulder or the hip . |
| 8 | They could be likened to the dynamic force of a volcanic eruption . |
| 9 | Later chapters will consider some of these issues as they could be affected by the Alternative Religion . |
| 10 | This was reinforced by the tendency of national governments not to handle unpopular decisions if they could be transferred to the High Authority for action . |
| 11 | Three of the pictures in this issue of BAIE News were taken by Ian Billinghurst on the DCS200 , but a lot of work was needed before they could be transferred from the computer system at the BAIE convention to the system at Hardman Press Services . |
| 12 | Once formed in place , they could be extracted by the Frasch process — pumping superheated stream down a borehole to blow them to the surface in molten form . |
| 13 | Natural high points were emphasized by mounds , often slightly off the hilltop , so that they could be seen from the valley bottom . |
| 14 | Moreover , mothers may have encouraged children to play on the road surface where they could be seen from the kitchen window instead of on the grass at the front where they could not . |
| 15 | In the Isle of Wight , the development of care programme systems and the need for monitoring were seen to require an increase in ‘ IT and support staff input ’ , although it is not clear whether this represented additional resources , and if so whether they could be met from the MISG or elsewhere . |
| 16 | We decided to offer our trainees two days a week in our training centre , working towards the general SVQ , plus three days ' practical training in a work placement , where they could be assessed for the SVQ . |
| 17 | Those which do not exist are effectively discarded because they are not stored in the list , however they could be regenerated from the graph should that become necessary at some future stage . |
| 18 | And next time they could be shot in the eye . |
| 19 | But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale . |
| 20 | In April and June 1927 , Nos. 36 and 38 were fitted with Westinghouse air brakes acting on the wheels and on the track so that they could be used on the Thornton Heath route and run in conjunction with the bogie cars that were being similarly equipped . |
| 21 | They would certainly be useful in floral decorations and I also wonder if they could be used in the greenhouse for transplanting seedlings ? |
| 22 | More changes in 1981 were designed to facilitate further the procedures so that they could be used by the general public , making arbitration the normal method of settling disputes where the amount of the claim was less than £500 , amending the ‘ no costs ’ rule and amending the terms of reference for the conduct of arbitration . |
| 23 | ‘ During the war a young couple , regular dancers , asked if they could be married in the ballroom . |
| 24 | In Italy money used to be paid for crickets so that they could be released in the garden to add their harmony and endless cheerfulness to it . |
| 25 | Other writers , such as Seebohm Rowntree , were much less guarded , putting forward solutions to family poverty and circulating new ideas about how they could be reconciled with the economic needs of industry . |
| 26 | If it were the case that some of the remaining words were radically different from the approximate values for shape and length they could be removed from the list of candidates . |
| 27 | Owen : When George , or you Robert … or you Carol walks out and slams the door that means the teacher has to give up time they could be giving to the others in the class , the ones who need the help . |
| 28 | On the eleventh day they gathered up their belongings , packed up their tents and were formed into companies so they could be addressed by the Commanding Officer of the Regiment . |
| 29 | Many recreation items such as caravans and boats that are on hire purchase are used so seldom they could be rented over the course of the hire purchase scheme and with enough cash left over to buy the item new if we still wanted one . |
| 30 | We cadets spent that morning sewing shackles into confidential documents , so that they could be thrown over the side if anything untoward happened . |