Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing nakedly visible , indeed not even a faltering step could be discerned during this event but the imprint was there , the unsettling moment had begun . |
| 2 | We estimate that approximately 30 of our units could be developed in this way . |
| 3 | The SE would be a hybrid ( and to this extent some of the original purpose of the SE has been lost ) ; it would be incorporated in a particular Member State , whose domestic laws would govern certain aspects of its operations ( e.g. insolvency ) , but its registered office could be transferred to another Member State . |
| 4 | Because almost all general locations round York could be could be fulfilled by that criterion . |
| 5 | By having the firms with low marginal reduction costs contract further and firms with high marginal reduction costs contract less , the same total reduction in pollution could be achieved at less cost . |
| 6 | Written resolutions can not be used to remove directors and auditors , but the s 382B procedure would seem to be available , so that removal of a non-member director or the auditor without a meeting or without director or auditor representation could be achieved in that way . |
| 7 | Within this region , as Professor Hoskins suggested , there are various names and alignments which raise questions in the mind of any landscape historian , questions which could be asked of any part of England . |
| 8 | It was argued that a solicitor affected by this could be represented by another solicitor after exchange of contract , so that that other solicitor could give the report on title to the lender and receive the mortgage advance . |
| 9 | Philosophically , it could be argued in any case that most or all words present analogous difficulties , and need to be put in scare quotes ( " the 'topic' of this 'essay' is the 'issue' of the 'author's ' 'intentions ' " , etc . ) . |
| 10 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 11 | Board secretary John Morris said : ‘ The Board 's main consideration was whether the title should remain on ice or whether this contest could be accepted for that championship . |
| 12 | This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material . |
| 13 | She always loathed naturalistic and realist writing , and locates in Raymond Carver a ‘ grey … glum … discontented acquiescence ’ that could be applied to any number of British anaemic depressives . |
| 14 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 15 | The debate on directorship could be applied in this field too , but the appointment to the service of a national director who is not a microbiologist illustrates the innovativeness of the organisation . |
| 16 | All the TARDIS sections were integrated , like a jigsaw , and could be arranged in any number of abstract ways without the visual suggestion of the set being lost . |
| 17 | The collected information could then be examined to identify any actual problems being experienced with the AL and these could be arranged in some order of priority . |
| 18 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 19 | A recent international meeting of computer-literate historians addressed these very questions and resolved to prepare a curriculum of instruction in computational methods and techniques which could be adopted at any number of institutions ( Davis , et.al. 1993 ) . |
| 20 | As no progress could be made at that meeting , it was agreed that the matter should be brought to the next stage of procedures which is Joint Industrial Council . |
| 21 | Well not necessarily but if copies could be made of that page . |
| 22 | This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law . |
| 23 | The Ambassador replied that he realized that no statement could be made on this subject and he himself had avoided making any such statement which he felt might prove embarrassing . |
| 24 | Unlike those to consultants , however , referrals could be made by any member of the primary health care team . |
| 25 | A request for the consideration of the establishment of an EWC could be made by any employee , or by central management . |
| 26 | If the production quantities are very high then the purchase of a simple drafting system may be justified and an investment could be made in some CAM equipment . |
| 27 | It led the way in providing computers to the grubby masses , only to show the opposition what money could be made in this way . |
| 28 | Regrettably , for the fifth year running , no award could be made in this category . |
| 29 | When the best signal is obtained , the optical fibre could be secured at each end using PVC tape . |
| 30 | However , if justice and peace could be secured by this House passing ritual condemnations , Northern Ireland would be the most pacific province in Europe . |