Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave it as his opinion in 1926 , shortly before Browne 's inglorious departure , that the current state of affairs in Masai District represented ‘ indirect administration in its purest form ’ , and thought this happy circumstance could mostly be credited to Browne , whom the Masai ‘ greatly respect and honour ’ . |
| 2 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 3 | A dangerous junction in Darlington could soon be closed to motorists after a series of accidents . |
| 4 | Councillors heard last night that the junction of Orchard Road and Hollyhurst Road , near Darlington Memorial Hospital , could soon be closed to cars . |
| 5 | It was a piece of pure mathematics that could easily be applied to letters and pictures on a page . |
| 6 | ‘ For heaven 's sakes ! ’ he exclaimed , shocked to find that his wife , usually acidly in command of herself and of anyone else who came near her , could possibly be reduced to tears . |
| 7 | George Brown , minister of the ill-fated Department of Economic Affairs , even believed that with American aid the British economy could quickly be restored to health . |
| 8 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 9 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 10 | In 1990 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys has told me , there were 150 deaths in England and Wales that could reasonably be attributed to liver failure after paracetamol overdosage , and of these , 119 were either certain or probable suicides . |
| 11 | The methane of the coal seam could also be oxidized to formaldehyde , the basis of the acetal polymers , or even to higher alcohols — the other half of the polyester molecule . |
| 12 | This approach could also be linked to reforms that require private sector companies to make over regular , but small parts of the total value of their capital to such a scheme . |
| 13 | Eventually men could probably be readmitted to positions of influence , provided they had somehow overcome their taste for violence , greed , rape and power for its own sake . |
| 14 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the Serious Fraud Office is reeling from its failures to secure convictions in high-profile City trials like Guinness and Blue Arrow ; and from the flight of its next target , Asil Nadir , before he could even be brought to court . |
| 16 | Those principles could well be applied to theology , which has been called the queen of the sciences . |
| 17 | Initially , the project had use of a very basic one which involved the manual counting of audible bleeps , which could then be averaged to counts per minute . |
| 18 | The main points for debate could then be circulated to panel members and the course team before the event . |
| 19 | We could then be recommended to people by them when their hotels were full . |
| 20 | This must be specifically claimed ( Ord 6 , r 1A ) and reference could usefully be made to Practice Note ( Claims for Interest ) ( No 2 ) , [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 377 issued for the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court which specifies the particulars required to be pleaded in the Queen 's Bench in claims for interest on debt or damages made under s 15 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , the empowering Act . |
| 21 | While readers might accept that the National Health Service could produce useful output measures such as the number and cost of various treatments , they might wish to consider what appropriate output measures could meaningfully be produced to measure , for example , a police force 's community liaison programme . |
| 22 | These philosophers and reformers believed that promotion of happiness could safely be entrusted to men and women themselves , without divine intervention , since they were innately good ; but some had misgivings about how to hold onto Christian charity . |