Example sentences of "could [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , including Kent County Council , believe that large scale induced development will not occur without positive government intervention and that some towns such as Dover could be badly affected by the loss of their traditional ferry business . |
| 2 | Finally , the departmental , engineering side also laid claim to its own clearly defined fleet of engines , which could be profitably loaned to the sectors at times of peak demand . |
| 3 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 4 | The rule that criminal proceedings are conducted in open court would be hollow unless those proceedings could be freely reported by the press and television , and the media in general . |
| 5 | Current Cheltenham second favourite Mighty Mogul is likely to head the market here but , in a race that could be slowly run in the absence of an obvious front-runner , he is worth opposing . |
| 6 | Wooden bows are rarely preserved , although one was described by the excavator as a ‘ bow , about five feet in length , which could be distinctly traced by the dark line of decomposed wood ’ ( Hillier 1856 , p. 30 ) . |
| 7 | Well , it could be loosely defined as the cell-wall material of plants but only loosely , because it also consists of substances associated with these cell walls . |
| 8 | The question of ratification of treaties with Western nations opened up a gulf between the Bakufu and an imperial court whose nominal supremacy Tokugawa enemies were beginning to realize could be fruitfully exploited to the regime 's disadvantage . |
| 9 | Research on the project may last two years , but its director , Franz Weissbach , is confident that , once the process is perfected , a Trabant chassis could be completely consumed by the microbes in two weeks . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 11 | The city of Ludwigshaven could be dimply seen through the haze as the Intermediate Point ( P ) was reached . |
| 12 | More recently Gill , Khalaf , and Massoud ( 1979 ) provided support for the stance of Jones and Wellman , deducing that the observed increase in rank up to the medium-volatile stage could be adequately explained as the thermal result of former depth of burial ; the higher ranks , they argued , require the additional factor of above-average palaeogeothermal gradients in the area concerned . |
| 13 | Citrine 's interventions largely succeeded because they were in general well-timed ; on issues on which he was utterly sure of the rightness of his cause ; and on ground which had been well prepared in advance by correspondence between officials at the BEA and the Ministry , so that the Minister 's brief could be effectively exploited in the discussion . |
| 14 | They could be either recorded from the big screen by a cinema goer or illegally reproduced by someone with access to the film.Intv . |
| 15 | £221 million in tax could be easily saved by the simple use of the tax-efficient financial products which have been introduced by the Government over the last ten years ; |
| 16 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman for the Health Services Unit explained : ‘ We wanted to give the service a corporate image which could be easily understood by the public . |
| 18 | Scott 's appointment could be easily justified on the grounds of his qualifications alone , but the attempt by the Select Committee to make something of the competition results only serves to cast doubt on the reasons for the appointment . |
| 19 | However , it is deemed unlikely to reactivate the effort despite contentions that the Intel work taking priority — largely the stuff of Open Desktop 2.0 coming out this summer — could be easily ported to the MIPS platform should it suddenly become a volume player . |
| 20 | In the 1760s the Physiocrats in France laid much of the ideological foundation for a new form of monarchy by popularizing ideas of a natural social order which could be easily discovered by the use of the human intelligence and which all unbiased men of goodwill must support . |
| 21 | For these people the marriage adverts acted as a kind of mail-order lifeline : from deepest Nagpur or Ujjain , a young man 's credentials could be easily brought before the eyes of an anxious Mama in Chelsea or Kensington . |
| 22 | She was still quite a long way from Yatton Farm , but the windmill on its hillock could be clearly seen from the farm . |
| 23 | The majority of LEAs did not accept that a clearly defined technical ability could be clearly identified at the age of eleven . |
| 24 | Though debt levels could be dramatically reduced through the sale of Pilkington 's Solaglass wing , for which they have been seeking a buyer . |
| 25 | It was only after a new system of physics had been devised , a process that involved the intellectual labour of many scientists over several centuries , that the new theory could be successfully matched with the results of observation and experiment in a detailed way . |
| 26 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 27 | Individual junctions were defined by two fixed points which could be readily identified from the video record . |
| 28 | Charity schools were inexpensive and could be readily supplied in the boom years , while even such an early champion of the bourgeoisie as Defoe could approve their attack on sloth and indiscipline as going to the heart of the problem of the labouring poor . |
| 29 | The fact that in vitro transcription reactions , reconstituted with purified human TFIIIB , IIIC , TBP ( and IIIA in the case of 5S-rRNA ) and pol III could be significantly stimulated by the addition of recombinant yeast TFIIA shows that this transcription factor is also involved in the expression of classical pol III genes ( Fig.5 ) . |
| 30 | Nervousness was exacerbated by another weak Wall Street opening , a further rise in oil prices and fears that exports could be adversely affected by the strong pound . |