Example sentences of "[noun pl] could be made to " in BNC.

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1 As well as enjoying local amenities , excursions could be made to the more famous and extensive Bois with their artificially created lakes , waterfalls and grottoes .
2 Amongst other things , the examination had revealed possible areas where improvements could be made to the services that the CSSU provided , in particular those services concerned with supplying the information needed for staff to fulfil their functions .
3 Further improvements could be made to either a tree or a trie structure by using a method of tail end compression ( section 3.2.5 ) .
4 Areas to be examined include what barriers may prevent greater use of company voluntary arrangements , the potential to reduce the number of Companies House filing requirements , what simplifications could be made to the law affecting private companies , the law on groups of companies , disincorporation , and the restrictions on companies helping people to buy shares in them .
5 No loans could be made to countries at war , and American citizens were forbidden to travel on their ships .
6 Coupled with desperately needed new construction , such as the cross-rail proposals , these existing routes could be made to really work for us at a fraction of the cost of new road-building , and with minimal land encroachment , pollution or disturbance to the environment .
7 Additions could be made to existing New Towns around London , particularly Stevenage and Harlow , but also at Basildon , Crawley and Hemel Hempstead , and also to a dozen other towns in the South-east , all of which offered scope for an expansion of at least 30,000 population : Aylesbury , Banbury , Bedford , Chelmsford , Colchester , Hastings , Maidstone , Medway Towns , Norwich , Poole , Reading and Southend .
8 He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable .
9 Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed .
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