Example sentences of "could be [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crops could have been grown in it free of the manorial and village restrictions which controlled the crops which could be grown in the village fields . |
| 2 | The first section also suggests that a cohesive consciousness could be registered in the construction and development of antislavery rituals and occasions and iconographic expressions or visual representations of a common antislavery identity . |
| 3 | In smaller seasonal or residential hotels all the office work could be centralised in the reception office , and during the quiet period on the front desk the receptionist would be expected to carry out the task of maintaining accounting and other records . |
| 4 | Now that virtue could be acknowledged in the toddler as he freely followed his own natural pursuits and interests — not excluding the exploration of his own body-the ground was finally prepared for an acceptance of babies ' desires as needs in themselves : ‘ Babies want attention ; they probably need plenty of it ’ ( Children 's Bureau , 1945 ) . |
| 5 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 6 | When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position . |
| 7 | There was an obscure but real sense in which you attempted to portray yourself as fundamentally progressive , as achieving as much as could be achieved in the circumstances in terms of liberalising legislation . |
| 8 | Above all , the school-leaving age should be raised to sixteen , and this , if an early decision were taken by the Minister , could be achieved in the year 1969/70 . |
| 9 | Thorburn ( 1971 ) considered that important economies of scale could be achieved in the provision of public utilities , transport , education and retailing . |
| 10 | But in practical terms of what could be achieved in the time-scales envisaged , with new contracts due to be signed between the privatized generating and distribution companies by the end of 1989 , nuclear power was the only option for large chunks of capacity . |
| 11 | If the British governments of the 1980s had been elected by proportional representation , it is almost unthinkable that any party could have gained a sufficient majority to impose the sweeping reforms instituted by Mrs Thatcher — or that decisive government of any hue could be achieved in the future . |
| 12 | To help the latter aim further , no parties could be represented in the Bundestag unless they won five per cent of the vote in a Land or won one seat outright . |
| 13 | A schema of this kind is applicable to every type of society , and one particularly interesting question which it suggests is whether there may also be contradictions in socialist society ; that is to say , in such societies , claiming to be socialist , as actually existed in Eastern Europe , and could be studied in the world today , not in some imagined future condition of things where complete social harmony would prevail by definition . |
| 14 | Tensions over the degree to which hopes for peace could be invested in the processes of inter-state relations were already familiar to pre-1914 pacifists , and they will continue to exercise peace activists so long as nation states exist . |
| 15 | It was agreed that no system development ( new network connections etc. ) could be undertaken in the interim . |
| 16 | Nor do the other attributes of incorporation suggest a basis on which a more extensive right of intervention on public interest grounds could be justified in the case of a company , than of , say , a partnership , simply in virtue of their respective legal characteristics . |
| 17 | Eurotunnel co-chairman Alastair Morton admitted that the company was in technical breach of its main credit agreement but argued that the cost overruns could be justified in the light of improving traffic and revenue forecasts . |
| 18 | In addition , they suggested that the effectiveness of the annual accountant 's report in giving early warning of possible default could be re-examined in the light of the Law Society 's experience of those solicitors who had already been made subject to this requirement as a condition of their receiving a practising certificate . |
| 19 | It could be worn in the spring or the autumn . ’ |
| 20 | The former Conservative Party chairman insisted that even if the treaty was ratified , it could be challenged in the courts . |
| 21 | For forms of wording to be used in the High Court , which could be adopted in the county court , see heading " Peremptory orders " , below . |
| 22 | No mammal has been , or at present could be cloned in the way described for toads . |
| 23 | Research has shown that savings of £1.5 billion could be made in the UK alone through a simple review of friction , lubrication and wear , with very little investment . |
| 24 | Two bedrooms and the best furniture that could be made in the Factory . |
| 25 | On the main floors , where the family circulated freely from room to room , corridors could be made in the thickness of the inner wall , communicating with the back stairs at either end . |
| 26 | I am trying to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications ( which may also touch on more general issues of ethics and management ) — do you have any relevant texts of which you might send me a complimentary copy and to which reference could be made in the publicity for what should prove a stimulating event ! |
| 27 | The Audit Commission has said that if all authorities did as well as the average , significant reductions could be made in the number of families living in temporary accommodation . |
| 28 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 29 | Coun. Mrs Eleanor Young ( Lab ) asked if a repeat of the November test could be made in the summer , when heat and humidity would show much higher pollution readings . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that , because physical geographers have traditionally been involved in atmospheric processes , hydrology and the soil , it is logical that contributions could be made in the characterization of the plant environment both spatially and temporally ( Hanna , 1983 ) . |