Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 2 | Through astrology one could be forewarned of the exact time of his coming . |
| 3 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 4 | For example , a study could be made of the impact of some piece of legislation , such as the Abortion Act or the Divorce Law Reform Act of 1971 . |
| 5 | While the government does not foresee the need for pre-censorship of publications , films and video cassettes , it is the intention of the government to enact appropriate legislation to provide the framework within which an assessment could be made of the suitability of any publication , film or video cassette for public and private consumption with regard to obscenity and offending of religious convictions . |
| 6 | While the government does not foresee the need for pre-censorship of publications , films and video cassettes , it is the intention of the government to enact appropriate legislation to provide the framework within which an assessment could be made of the suitability of any publication , film or video cassette for public and private consumption with regard to obscenity and offending of religious convictions . |
| 7 | More effective use could be made of the pharmacy 's patient medication records — for example , to analyse a practice 's prescribing patterns and make recommendations for change . |
| 8 | The principles of electromagnetism had been established by the late eighteenth century , but it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that any sort of measurements could be made of the small currents produced by living tissue . |
| 9 | No positive identification could be made of the bodies , Mexican sources at the crash site informed ACN . |
| 10 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 11 | Although it emphasized that the sum required was not only insignificant compared with military spending world-wide , but only half as much as Germany was expected to spend on the process of unification , the report also acknowledged that more efficient use could be made of the money already being spent . |
| 12 | Marx blinked at what could be seen of the office ceiling through the hanging cloud of his cigar smoke . |
| 13 | Three screens showed views of the slim man 's shelter of rocks , but all that could be seen of the target were the streams of laser fire that issued from his blaster . |
| 14 | Jangling her keys more like a jailer than an attendant , she went to gaze out of a narrow window at what could be seen of the prosperous modern city , returning to peer over my shoulder and sniff . |
| 15 | Dark clouds now covered the sky and what could be seen of the harbour was a study in greys , slate blues and silver . |
| 16 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |
| 17 | The same could be said of the recent Starfield and Chandler ranges , both of which we have looked at lately , and if this steering away from routine duplication is indeed a new trend , then it 's one which I applaud wholeheartedly . |
| 18 | The same could be said of the Shakespearean or Homeric frame . |
| 19 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 20 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 21 | But of course the same could be said of the situation in Lace v. Chantler [ 1944 ] K.B . |
| 22 | The same could be said of the routes around the west of London . |
| 23 | The relationship with humans may be such that plants are no longer clearly ‘ wild ’ or ‘ cultivated ’ , the forests including several ‘ cultigens ’ like the betel nut or Uncaria gambir ( Rubiaceae ) , an important tan source in Asia ; similar could be said of the date in north Africa and Arabia . |
| 24 | Much more could be said of the implications of a natural-narrative analysis here . |
| 25 | These are just two of the many examples which could be quoted of the controlling and interacting forces at work in nature and of the subtle interlinking with occurs throughout the natural world and which maintains the state of order on this planet . |
| 26 | Many more stories could be told of the effects of the bomb — of terrible burns and of people dying slowly from radiation . |
| 27 | In these awards there are elements of Buggins 's Turn and resurrection , but what else could be expected of the merry band of superannuated politicians commanded to commend the necessary artists ? |
| 28 | Even Conservative Governments could be persuaded of the wisdom of this approach since , so long as no powerful state threatened the status quo , support for the League was the cheapest way of maintaining the Empire . |
| 29 | By concentrating on pebbles carried down from alpine sources in the beds of rivers and streams , full advantage could be taken of the erosive power of water in wearing away adhering rock and concentrating the sought after greenstone . |
| 30 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |