Example sentences of "could [be] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was aware that they could be setting out on a wild-goose chase , but he had to believe that they were n't . |
| 2 | On the other hand , parts of the budget could be set up as profit centres which charged other parts of the budget for using their services . |
| 3 | Terry Pearson , head of the bank 's global custody division , said the system could be set up for well under £50 million . |
| 4 | And he stressed it was unlikely an ‘ entire pattern of stability ’ could be set up for every operation . |
| 5 | The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them . |
| 6 | In theory , a limited partnership could be set up on the retirement of a working partner , where the continuing partners experience difficulty in acquiring the outgoing partner 's share by an immediate cash payment . |
| 7 | It was hoped that a small part of those works could stay in operation , renovating locomotives and rolling stock and that eventually a heritage museum could be set up on the site . |
| 8 | He suggested that ethical committees could be set up across the country to provide an independent source of advice for doctors and families , taking the matter out of the hands of the courts . |
| 9 | The interpretation depends on the fact that trusts could be set up without addressing the trustee directly . |
| 10 | The number of alumni living abroad is also staggering and it looks likely that more Napier groups could be set up around the globe . |
| 11 | The US government had hoped that some form of non-Communist coalition government could be set up in post-war China , and General Marshall had led a mission to achieve this end in 1946 . |
| 12 | could be set up in excess of fifty thousand |
| 13 | A RACE Equality Council branch could be set up in Darlington next month . |
| 14 | New political parties , and other types of public association such as trade unions , could be set up by as few as 10 people . |
| 15 | The system could be set up by the industry itself ‘ on as voluntary a basis as possible ’ , he told the national heritage select committee 's inquiry into privacy and media intrusion . |
| 16 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 17 | Statements of attainment could be set out in very general terms , permitting a great variety of learning routes and greater autonomy for teachers in the classroom , but they would run the risk of being uninterpretable by SAT developers and teachers , or , given the political imperative to produce national assessments , interpretable in an arbitrary fashion . |