Example sentences of "could be [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 2 | The NMR solution structure for domain 1 ( ref.16 ) could be placed immediately in the electron density to give a very good fit . |
| 3 | Parents could be involved sooner in the childrens ' educations . |
| 4 | One acoustic theory is immediately exploded : that a whisper on stage could be heard up in the back row ( Greek guides conveniently fail to take the wooden superstructure into account ) . |
| 5 | Parin nodded , and he signed to his assistants to roll up the books so that they could be packed away in the boxes and chests in which they were stored . |
| 6 | A company spokesman said yesterday it was not yet clear how many workers could be redeployed elsewhere in the group . |
| 7 | ( The printed sheets were ‘ signed ’ with a letter of the alphabet , so they could be gathered up in the right order — one of each , B , C , D , etc . |
| 8 | The fourth item in table 9.7 shows the five Authorities identified as having the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme , which includes multiple criteria and identifies four mutually exclusive groups of housing areas associated with particular deprivation , each of which could be treated separately in the allocation of resources : poor terraced housing , the poorest Local Authority housing , areas with a high concentration of multiple — occupancy and of people of Asian origin , and areas with a high concentration of multi-let property with a significant proportion of people of Afro-Caribbean origin . |
| 9 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 10 | However , the Associated Press news agency reported on Feb. 8 that the package could be held up in the European Parliament , due to opposition from the socialist group because of concerns about Syria 's human rights record . |
| 11 | But he continued to be interested in the principles behind tribal art rather than in the aesthetic appeal of individual objects ; and these principles could be embodied even in the contemporary ‘ forgeries ’ which quickly began to be produced in quite large numbers to meet the demand for ‘ primitive ’ art . |
| 12 | First , the reduction of the ground-floor level so that five storeys could be accommodated satisfactorily in the building height meant that the new first floor would cut across the aisle windows if they were left unmodified . |
| 13 | In a period of cultural stability , the infantile , irrational demands of the superego which conflicted with the mature superego could be worked out in the analytic process . |
| 14 | Yeah , if we could if we could be working really in the spirit at all times , yes . |
| 15 | If such an attractive new influence could be spread abroad in the world , where so many people long for a religion which has that ring of truth , the detection of which is a priceless human ability acquired down through the ages and not to be denied , there would be a growing number of adherents rallying to it . |
| 16 | Exactly what extent they could be taken up in the period to ninety six , is not necessarily erm clear because we we do n't know exactly when those are going to be taken up . |
| 17 | Giving the examples of the Skye bridge and the proposed second Forth road bridge as ‘ exciting new opportunities ’ , he said that the partnership concept could be taken further in the future . |
| 18 | The method , however , lacks flexibility , and for an apparatus this size it was essential to have an independent power source so that adjustments could be carried out in the event of failure . |
| 19 | This could be carried out in the school , the clinic or the child 's home . |
| 20 | Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests . |
| 21 | This connection between advertising , advertising revenue and the profitability of newspapers could be found early in the 19th century in Britain and in the USA . |
| 22 | The magistrates said the issue of compensation could be sorted out in the civil courts . |
| 23 | However , Keegan 's No 2 , Terry McDermott , hinted that the move could be sorted out in the next few days . |
| 24 | But the COS had refused to acknowledge the role of economic forces with respect to character , justifying J. A. Hobson 's jibe that their philosophy could be summed up in the phrase ‘ character is the condition of conditions ’ . |
| 25 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 26 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |