Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eogan had told Snizort about the ritual mating between Humans and beasts , which could only be done under the strict control of the Court Sorcerers and the Panel of Judges , and Snizort had been entranced . |
| 2 | If there was a widespread desire to alter the degree of influence exercised by Parliament and to make the life of a backbench MP an attractive prospect in its own right for public-spirited men and if this could only be done by the acceptance of some new countervailing powers , this would be no harder for successive governments than , for example , accepting the limitations involved in joining the Common Market . |
| 3 | This could only be done by the Trustees , as members could not afford to fund entirely . |
| 4 | Primarily , however , an empirically based study of public order policing is impossible to undertake in the midst of the province 's continuing violent conflict , and certainly could not be done with the degree of depth , empirical focus , familiarity , and , frankly , personal safety which an ethnographic study of routine policing allows . |
| 5 | I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts . |
| 6 | She was furious that the work could not be done during the festive season . |
| 7 | Does my hon. Friend feel that justice could possibly be done to the coal reserves in that pit with such a small squad ? |
| 8 | Some of your analysis and dictionary work could probably be done outside the language area too . |
| 9 | He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up . |
| 10 | The cooking , which could n't be done before the day of the party , looked like an insurmountable mountain to Paige when she presented herself in the kitchen to help . |
| 11 | Alternatively , some of this type of work could well be done on the side , that is , alongside work of a more directed nature where rewards are more easily identifiable . |
| 12 | The proposers , Neil McLean and Mel Collier , head and deputy head of library services at PCL , wanted to see what could usefully be done in the way of library automation using networked microcomputers rather than the conventional multi-user access to a mainframe or large mini . |