Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That could be made to look like abuse of his authority at a subsequent inquiry . |
| 2 | Financial control was centralized under one accounting officer , the Permanent Under-Secretary for Defence , with subordinate Deputy Under-Secretaries to oversee the individual Service votes , which were still retained for administrative convenience , but could be adjusted to conform to Defence , as opposed to single Service , priorities . |
| 3 | The first of these ( on political union ) was to be held during 1992 and the second , on monetary union , in 1996-97 ; a protocol to the treaty allowed for this Danish referendum before Denmark could be required to participate in stage three of EMU . |
| 4 | Every applicant could be required to apply for leave to make a judicial review application . |
| 5 | According to MacGregor , the plants could be revived to run on coal . |
| 6 | The court ordered a commission of experts to be appointed by the Ministry of Health to rule on whether Zhivkov could be expected to appear in court again . |
| 7 | She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed . |
| 8 | If the right kind of Masai could be persuaded to act as government headmen , C.E.V. Buxton said , ‘ the ideal of indirect rule could be achieved ’ . |
| 9 | And the dancers dancing , the pipers piping , drummers drumming and lords a-leaping could be persuaded to perform for charity . |
| 10 | At a press conference yesterday , Mr John Dawson , head of the B.M.A . 's professional and scientific division , said that if no action was taken , the elderly could be forced to rely on charity and ‘ could even be forced to beg . ’ |
| 11 | Once the meat was served , they reckoned the underlings could be trusted to deal with pudding and dessert . |
| 12 | Students lacking science background could be advised to start with Stage 1 Generic Sciences modules delivered in a biology context before embarking on the Biological Sciences modules . |
| 13 | Students lacking science background could be advised to start with Stage 1 Generic Sciences modules delivered in a chemistry context before embarking on the Chemical Sciences modules . |
| 14 | Students lacking science background could be advised to start with Stage 1 Generic Sciences modules delivered in a physics context before embarking on the Physical Sciences modules . |
| 15 | In the old days a man could be left to languish in prison uncharged and forgotten . |
| 16 | The Great Machine could be left to operate without interference . |
| 17 | Although be knew that this happens , he did not think it plausible that all differences between cells could be caused in this way , because he could not see how a sufficient number of specific external stimuli could be brought to bear during development . |
| 18 | Moreover , in the Opticks he identified seven colours in the spectrum and described a circle divided into seven segments that could be used to account for colour mixing . |
| 19 | Its wording on financial compensation , moreover , fell well short of UK suggestions that frozen Iraqi assets could be used to compensate for loss or damage suffered by Kuwaitis ( the Kuwaiti central bank governor having estimated on Oct. 17 that a restored Kuwaiti government would seek $12,000 million in compensation for looting , theft or damage ) . |