Example sentences of "could be [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cooling-off period of , say , six weeks could be imposed by application to the courts and this would allow negotiations and talks to continue . |
| 2 | God might have oversight over the destinies of nations , for example , in times of war ; but individuals would do better to rely on their own foresight , and on such pressure on the state as could be exerted by groups organised to sustain collective interests . |
| 3 | Using highly mobile soldiers to avoid battle , Bruce used the physical geography of Scotland to make conditions as difficult as he could for the English who , risking starvation and ambush , had to be very careful not to overstretch themselves and to keep open their lines of communication as best they could through the control of castles , in particular the vital one at Stirling , which dominated the lowest point at which the river Forth could be crossed by bridge . |
| 4 | This could be developed by reference to the following arguments : ( 1 ) History is a social necessity . |
| 5 | Management development , team building , and organisational development plans could be developed by practices in the light of local service priorities , and approved and funded by the family health services authorities . |
| 6 | An individual 's allegiance could be shaped by questions of party principle and party loyalty , but it could also be shaped by one 's relationship to the central government , or Court , and one 's attitude towards the power of the executive . |
| 7 | In all his writings from hiding he had increasingly found a brave and defiant secular voice : one that recognised a ‘ God-shaped hole ’ in life , but did not doubt that it could be filled by art , literature and imagination . |
| 8 | The British navy continued to depend on what men could be allured by bounties , snapped up by the press-gang , or recruited more or less forcibly from convicts and debtors . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Spitfires were arriving at Prestwick and a survey was conducted to determine if the aircraft could be transferred by road to Glasgow . |
| 10 | Furthermore , gradation could equally lead to heavier sentences than might otherwise have been given for conduct which comes within the higher categories , although this could be regulated by appeal courts and sentencing guidelines . |
| 11 | A candidate gene that could be regulated by N-Oct 3 is the human calcitonin/CGRP gene which contains a consensus octamer motif in the promoter . |
| 12 | Living in damp caves beneath the earth , Echidna shunned the light of day ; her presence could be tracked by rank , marshy patches , or cracks in the soil 's surface . |
| 13 | This could be precipitated by instillation of 210 ml of air into the stomach . |
| 14 | Each sacrifice , upheld by God 's promise and power had real effect and potency , but this was not a power that could be manipulated by man . |
| 15 | The supernatural beings of the Sinhalese could be manipulated by humans so as to influence events , but their ethical position was ambiguous . |
| 16 | Other government regulations could be manipulated by thieves for their own advantage . |
| 17 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 18 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 19 | They do this when they believe they can operate more profitably and with greater stability than could be achieved by reliance on the workings of imperfect international markets ( Buckley and Casson , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | The letters between Miller and Bartram show what could be achieved by patience and forbearance two hundred years ago . |
| 21 | He showed the savings of one-third of the man hours per house could be achieved by rationalisation in brick , block and timber design . |
| 22 | The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used . |
| 23 | Next , the implication that full employment could be achieved by budget deficits encouraged the separation of decisions to spend from decisions to tax , and there has been a tendency for the former to grow faster than the latter . |
| 24 | Something more of the requisite independence could be achieved by Berkeley 's doctrine that ideas which are not subject to our own will are produced in us by God : the independence of a real thing , its having some continuity despite interrupted perception of it , could be explained in terms of a continued readiness on God 's part to excite the requisite ideas in us at suitable moments . |
| 25 | In this respect Ferguson thought that the Warner Bros film was a good indication of what could be achieved by Hollywood when it tackled social problems honestly and he summed it up by returning to one of his favourite points about Hollywood that ‘ even half a loaf on the national stomach is at least nourishment taken in ’ . |
| 26 | These items could be represented by twin reservoirs for which only the net flow relative to the remainder of the system would be measured . |
| 27 | Sources and applications of funds could be represented by decreases and increases in reservoir volume , respectively . |
| 28 | ( On Fig. 2 , this could be represented by evolution up to the optimum life history by a series of horizontal or vertical steps . ) |
| 29 | This could be represented by Figure 1 . |
| 30 | A third model , that favoured in The Health of the Nation Key Area Handbook : Mental Illness ( DoH , 1993 ) could be represented by Figure 2 , where some people receive both care programmes and care management , but others receive only one type of service . |