Example sentences of "could be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( According to a circular of March 20th , 1931 , stone-breaking , stone-pounding and corn-grinding were no longer among the tasks prescribed for casuals ; none could be imposed without the approval of the Minister . |
| 2 | Conditions could be imposed on the planning permission which would overrule the general permission given for such a change in use by the Use Classes Order ( Class 11 is ‘ use as an office for any purpose ’ ) . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders . |
| 4 | Crops could have been grown in it free of the manorial and village restrictions which controlled the crops which could be grown in the village fields . |
| 5 | But it argues ministers should hesitate before going further with the publication of information that could be misused in the same way as it says occurred with published exam results . |
| 6 | The Committee also recommended that the law should be changed so that the husband could be registered as the father . |
| 7 | The first section also suggests that a cohesive consciousness could be registered in the construction and development of antislavery rituals and occasions and iconographic expressions or visual representations of a common antislavery identity . |
| 8 | However , only fishing vessels fulfilling the conditions laid down in section 14 of the Act of 1988 could be registered in the new register . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But a static gathering was likely to amount to an obstruction , which could be cleared by the police exercising common law powers . |
| 11 | In smaller seasonal or residential hotels all the office work could be centralised in the reception office , and during the quiet period on the front desk the receptionist would be expected to carry out the task of maintaining accounting and other records . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since the demand for labour is a decreasing function of the real wage rate and the supply of labour is ( perhaps ) an increasing function of the real wage rate , they argued that the origins of general unemployment could be traced to the maintenance of a real wage rate , w 1 , which exceeded the market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 16 | They were invisible in the tall rye , yet their purposeful advance could be traced by the disturbance of the crop through which they moved . |
| 17 | South Africa 's Administrator-General , Louis Pienaar , had proposed that all ballots be cast in numbered envelopes , which could be traced after the elections , and that the count should be conducted in the capital , Windhoek , over as long as five weeks . |
| 18 | ( 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 . ) |
| 19 | Research in health outcomes is in its infancy in primary care , but there is an emerging consensus that measures could be developed for the common chronic diseases of asthma , diabetes , and hypertension . |
| 20 | A framework for justifying such transformations in the power structure of the company could be developed from the available set of legal ideas . |
| 21 | Apart from a concerted effort by its backers , which could be shaped at the end of year meeting , Goldstein says only catalytic events will otherwise drive the Architecture-Neutral Format to market . |
| 22 | Apart from a concerted effort by its backers , which could be shaped at the end of year meet , Goldstein says only catalytic events will otherwise drive ANDF to market . |
| 23 | There was A1 , in at the birth pangs of the British weapon , where the plutonium was heated in the furnaces so that it could be shaped into the melon-sized spheres for the inner workings of the warheads , and it was no secret amongst the Establishment staff that a dozen years earlier cancers had been rampant amongst the technicians . |
| 24 | There were new arts by now , shared dreams that could be shaped by the skilled . |
| 25 | Here it could be wedged among the reeds , and would eventually be picked clean . |
| 26 | Adequate warning was required as to when courses were to take place so that farm work could be planned around the appointed date . |
| 27 | Through astrology one could be forewarned of the exact time of his coming . |
| 28 | Now that virtue could be acknowledged in the toddler as he freely followed his own natural pursuits and interests — not excluding the exploration of his own body-the ground was finally prepared for an acceptance of babies ' desires as needs in themselves : ‘ Babies want attention ; they probably need plenty of it ’ ( Children 's Bureau , 1945 ) . |
| 29 | From this nucleus , royal territory was in the future to expand to the point at which , in 1239 , the whole county could be annexed to the royal demesne . |
| 30 | If we do n't challenge this group then we could be faced with the most unpaletteable thought of having an AC Milan type situation in the UK . |