Example sentences of "could be [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 2 | But a static gathering was likely to amount to an obstruction , which could be cleared by the police exercising common law powers . |
| 3 | They also show that several very different types of scale could be borne by the same animal , including some complex scales immediately surrounding the gill openings . |
| 4 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 5 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 6 | It could be counter-argued by the employer that increased customer interest was less due to the inherent qualities of the patented invention itself than to the uncompetitive prices charged by other suppliers of similar products . |
| 7 | The dog had a metallic collar which could be traced by a hand-held detector , operated by the men on the surface . |
| 8 | They were invisible in the tall rye , yet their purposeful advance could be traced by the disturbance of the crop through which they moved . |
| 9 | ( The shape of the monkey could be discerned by the eye of prejudice even in the Chinese and Japanese , as witness many a modern cartoon . ) |
| 10 | There were new arts by now , shared dreams that could be shaped by the skilled . |
| 11 | It was Pappus , one of the great mathematicians of Alexandria in the fourth century AD , who recognised that space could be filled by a moving point . |
| 12 | He is even more adamant that he is not stealing a place that could be filled by an Englishman . |
| 13 | They were alarmed that the continuing growth in the number of foreign tourists could be jeopardised by an isolated serious incident . |
| 14 | Rather more serious , if you buy a new home before selling your existing one , you could be faced by a bridging loan problem , which with continuing high interest rates could soon eat into any profits you hope to realise on the exchange . |
| 15 | The worst moments of Clara 's domestic life were not in fact those moments at which domestic indifference fronted her most blankly and sheerly , for they could be faced by an equally stony frontage — they were those which bore witness to hidden chinks and faults , deep within the structure . |
| 16 | Once it was realized that dispositions could be salvaged by the mere addition of a trust clause , it is likely that the addition of one became a regular feature of testamentary practice . |
| 17 | When that will was vitiated either by the monarch 's evil counsellors or , as the later theoreticians of military indiscipline were to maintain , by the corrupt operation of Parliamentary institutions run by a clique of national ’ politicians , then it could be salvaged by the heroic gesture of a general or the conspiracy of an officers ' mess . |
| 18 | For example , if expenditure on site access and servicing totalling £500,000 , were to be met in the proportion 80:20 ( Private Sector : Local Authority ) , an EC grant of up to £250,000 could be received by the Local Authority . |
| 19 | Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation . |
| 20 | This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant . |
| 21 | In such a case the counter-restitution could be achieved by a financial adjustment based on the value of the shares . |
| 22 | The conventional explanation of the coalition 's commitment to provide ‘ a high and stable level of employment after the war ’ is that men in positions of power were convinced the aim could be achieved by a policy of managing effective demand , as advocated by Keynes and his supporters . |
| 23 | The court can not exercise its powers to make a specific issue or prohibited steps order with a view to achieving a result which could be achieved by a residence or contact order ( s9(5) ( a ) ) . |
| 24 | Positive stressing of the geometric square could be achieved by the application of negative forces . |
| 25 | However , it is difficult to imagine how the specific contacts in the major groove could be achieved by the recognition helix when the non-specific contacts of the anchoring helix are inexistent . |
| 26 | This , it was argued , could be achieved by the establishment of a parliamentary standing committee to supervise its conduct ; the Foreign Relations Committee of the American Senate was often quoted as a possible model . |
| 27 | This could be achieved by the reduction of consumption of fossil fuels , increased energy efficiency and the installation of more effective emission control equipment on motor vehicles and power plants . |
| 28 | The auditor must examine whether resources could be put to alternative uses , whether objectives could be achieved by an alternative strategy and ( if practicable ) compare the operations of one particular department with another . |
| 29 | The Senate amendment provided that the right of EC citizens resident in France to vote in European and local elections would be covered by a law " voted in the same terms by both assemblies " , whereas the National Assembly under Article 45 of the Constitution could be asked by the government to " rule definitively " on legislation if the two houses could not agree . |
| 30 | It was Galileo 's contemporary , Kepler , who contributed a major breakthrough in that direction when he discovered that each planetary orbit could be represented by a single ellipse , with the sun at one focus . |