Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two obvious moves which could be made to counter this argument . |
| 2 | At subsequent meetings efforts could be made to reduce this quota further . |
| 3 | If the biscuits coming through were each rather heavy then the machine could be adjusted to wrap fewer biscuits per pack . |
| 4 | The list could be expanded to incorporate any treaty which provides for mutuality , reciprocity , or where the personal identity of the other party is important , for then , by definition the parties can not have intended to allow assignment . |
| 5 | There was evidence that could be seen to point either way and so the verdict was left open . |
| 6 | Leopold could be said to have some qualifications for the throne ; he was Catholic , descended directly from the families of the Beauharnais and the Murats and he was married to a sister of the King of Portugal . |
| 7 | A{ declaration } is defined in BNF as : Using the " translate and test " instruction , show how a program could be written to check any character string against this definition , and extract the{ ident } s in order to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 8 | The session — which featured detailed contributions from Blackwell Retail 's academic development manager Roger Bowen , and Pitman Publishing 's sales and marketing director Rod Bristow — examined the recent changes in the British education system and suggested ways in which they could be exploited to generate more sales . |
| 9 | Most of their economic activities tend to be relatively labour intensive and could be assisted to become more labour retaining , helping to decrease the movement of people to industrial areas . |
| 10 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |
| 11 | Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment . |
| 12 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 13 | The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’ |
| 14 | Few could be expected to assume that eccentricity . |
| 15 | The criticism was often made by those who disliked the more abstract theoretical work , and who preferred more tangible ideas , which could be shown to have some application : |
| 16 | Moreover , it needs to be recognized that a rational , ‘ value-free ’ analysis can not exist in a pluralistic society or that it would please no one if attempted ( Clapham , 1984 ) , unless an action could be shown to benefit all stakeholders . |
| 17 | No one could be persuaded to attempt this feat until Roger offered the pupil a monetary inducement . |
| 18 | Mr Booker , who spoke at Ford 's advanced engineering centre in Dearborn , Michigan , said if European conditions continued to worsen , the company could be forced to shed more jobs . |
| 19 | In one sense , deviance could be taken to mean any behaviour that differs from the normal , any uncommon or unusual behaviour . |
| 20 | At least , in those extraordinary days between Hiroshima and the declaration of Vietnamese independence , hardly anyone , except the French garrison who were still imprisoned , first by the Japanese and then by the Vietminh , could be found to contradict this assumption of power and by the time it took place , or at least was claimed , another thread in the French connection had been broken . |
| 21 | What calculations could be performed to extract this information ? |
| 22 | In Chapter 3 , we saw that , for general LPs , a two-phase method , maximising in Phase I , could be used to tackle such problems . |
| 23 | In the case of international law what the institutions of positive law have to offer is a means for settling dangerous disputes and limiting the destructive powers which could be used to resolve those disputes in an unacceptable manner . |
| 24 | Once again , the parable of the blind men and the elephant could be used to illustrate this point . |
| 25 | They are therefore nearer to being attempted systematisations of popular ideology than objective scales which could be used to explain that ideology . |
| 26 | The materials in stock could be resold for £4,000 less 10% selling expenses , or could be used to produce another product after some further processing . |
| 27 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |