Example sentences of "[conj] could be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , there are many topics that could be experimented on that are barred by ethical considerations . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend agree that such an arrangement would not only broaden the health services already made available to patients but achieve financial savings that could be ploughed back into the provision of other services ? |
| 3 | And filled in a registration form that could be checked on . |
| 4 | As the future was so uncertain , however , the family retained ownership of all fixtures , fittings and moveable contents — everything that could be stripped out if Thoresby were ever threatened with demolition . |
| 5 | With new forms of planning restriction limiting the amount of suburban extension that could be tacked on to existing built-up areas , housing developers increasingly looked to the surrounding rings of smaller settlements lying within commuting distance of city centres . |
| 6 | Administrative assistant — the accuracy of the checking procedure , ie the number of errors undetected at this stage that could be referred back by the personnel section or the finance department . |
| 7 | Though the current talk is about establishing multinational units and of creating a European rapid-deployment force that could be sent off at short notice to cope with unexpected contingencies , Europe 's armies have too many of the wrong sorts of forces , doing the wrong jobs . |
| 8 | A caring parent would pay a penny or tuppence for some old coat or skirt that could be cut up to meet the needs of some child . |
| 9 | For example , you could create the design for a simple piece of embroidery using small sprays of pressed flowers , or make an initial design from pressed flowers that could be transferred on to squared paper and used to embroider a handkerchief Both of these ideas would make marvellous presents , and you could perhaps place the finished embroidery in a tissue-lined box that has been decorated with pressed flowers or ribbons . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm surprised she did n't put in a gold locket or something , or a precious necklace that could be traced back to royalty , or the aristocracy , or the Sultan of Kashmir , or the Pope . ’ |
| 11 | From his vast knowledge of that swirling urban society in London and New York it was the type that could be swept up and then knocked back down that Chaplin chose to express the emotions of a whole era . |
| 12 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 13 | And would it look odd if you had a tent or wigwam type of frame that could be covered in with a protective polythene and well ven ventilated at the , at the base and as it 's only really to give protection , you know , January , late April sort of thing , round about that period , er to prevent the fungal peach leaf curl and fungal spores being splashed on the branches wherein . |
| 14 | He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune . |
| 15 | Chapman , as we have seen , first held these sessions during his days at Leeds City , but now , instead of the diagram he used then , he had a magnetic table marked out as a football field , with little toy players that could be moved around on it . |
| 16 | The changes came about because of the costs of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) , the need for pensions that could be moved along with a change in jobs , and the wish to provide the public with more freedom of choice in their pension plans . |
| 17 | This way they would find out if there were any quirks in the aircraft that could be ironed out before Dick strapped-in for the ride that would be his first solo . |
| 18 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 19 | It seems not unlikely that human beings — and other living organisms — are surrounded by electromagnetic fields that could be picked up by cameras , assuming the circumstances were favourable . |
| 20 | There were no windows , but two large openings that could be closed in by folding doors . |
| 21 | But as I say what do you feel as as students do you feel that you have the facilities here that could be improved on or or |
| 22 | If only someone would invent ski-tows that could be folded up and packed away after the season . |
| 23 | The entire estate was enclosed with glass walls that could be folded back , ‘ should the weather prove sufficiently clement ’ , and some of the bijou residences were also graced with towers and castle-like turrets . |
| 24 | However the computational demands of the ANLT system severely restricted the amount of testing that could be carried out . |
| 25 | ( i ) Describe briefly an experiment that could be carried out to obtain these results in the laboratory . |
| 26 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 27 | Blinds drawn down in the heat of the day had made an oasis of quiet shadow , a source of energy that could be drawn on now like a pool of pure water guarded from the dust of the track . |
| 28 | At the Christian Aid Executive meeting , was very willing to be involved , and no doubt there are others within Britain that could be drawn on . |
| 29 | I know of no set of criteria that could be drawn up to include such a tragic case . |
| 30 | So it was done away with and another material substituted that could be washed down every day . |