Example sentences of "which could [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the Paracelsians there had been an emphasis on inner illumination , which could be perceived as a threat to established forms of religion . |
| 2 | The lack of welfare officers , the rarity of home leave , the concept of visits and letter-writing as a privilege which could be withdrawn as a punishment , and the denial of permission to keep family photographs , were all indications of an absence of serious interest in helping to maintain a prisoner 's contacts with the outside world . |
| 3 | The court can not exercise its powers to make a specific issue or prohibited steps order with a view to achieving a result which could be achieved by a residence or contact order ( s9(5) ( a ) ) . |
| 4 | Thus the maximum term of imprisonment which could be inflicted without a jury quadrupled between 1884 and 1899 . |
| 5 | Executives at Alexandra Towing are now waiting to hear further details of the move , which could be finalised within a few weeks . |
| 6 | But many MPs are now questioning why , if the Government could ratify this treaty without Parliament 's consent , they are being made to jump through the hoops of parliamentary procedures which could be completed in a day . |
| 7 | Here , it is natural to think in terms of the institutionalization of a disposition which could be displayed in a simpler form pre-culturally . |
| 8 | There are always any number of questions which could be asked in a survey because they seem ‘ interesting ’ ; but interest is not enough . |
| 9 | The importance of Leigh is that the court was prepared to treat the " open justice " principle as a rule of law which could be asserted by a journalist against a discretionary policy , rather than as a desirable state of affairs which could nonetheless give way to judicial convenience . |
| 10 | Which could be seen as a good thing ; after all , in the eyes of sceptical guitarists the GR-1 could stand or fall on its immediate user-friendly appeal . |
| 11 | One , which could be seen as a little circular , is to look at the brains of mammals alive today and determine what they have in common . |
| 12 | Rosie Leventon 's Copper Floor involves 320 textured copper briquettes which could be seen as a woman 's reappropriation of Carl Andre 's Bricks . |
| 13 | He portrays Madeline and Mrs. Proudie as not very ‘ nice ’ — one too fond of using her femininity and the other hardly seeming to recognise it — which could be seen as a criticism of any woman who dared to question her accepted niche in society . |
| 14 | The very act of carving the symbols in the rock can create an electrical charge which could be seen by a sensitive . |
| 15 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 16 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 17 | A timely point and one which could be made into a test of this kind of narrative by which an author may be seen to have succeeded or failed to create the necessary suspension of disbelief . |
| 18 | This extraction should be by way of a dividend , not a buy-in of any of the parent company 's shares , as the latter would not be a dividend which could be made under a group income election and would be a part-disposal of the parent company 's shares for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 19 | In March of the following year Mr Henderson was appointed treasurer of the Building Fund and the cost of the building scheme was estimated at £18,000 a sum which could be met over a period of 7 years . |
| 20 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 21 | The dog had a metallic collar which could be traced by a hand-held detector , operated by the men on the surface . |
| 22 | The intention was to attempt to educate staff at an early stage in the benefits which could be obtained from a computerized system . |
| 23 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 24 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 25 | Women 's lesser aggressiveness , for instance , which could be understood as a positive characteristic , is generally associated with deficits in socially-valued traits like competitiveness and achievement motivation . |
| 26 | preferred to play safe and order bodies which could be transferred to a narrow gauge system if the standard gauge system for which they were ordered proved a failure . |
| 27 | If we were to start banning every product which could be swallowed by a child , there would be very little left on the market in terms of toys . ’ |
| 28 | Here were good and robust buildings , loved by local residents , which could be converted to a range of uses , but were to be demolished and replaced with mediocre high street architecture . |
| 29 | But it is arguable that its deepest roots are to be sought in patterns of normality and abnormality in a family of ordinary language expressions ( which could be formulated as a set of diagnostic frames ) . |
| 30 | These masks only allowed a small amount of light to escape through a central slot , which could be covered by a red slide to convert it to a tail lamp . |