Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) . |
| 2 | Chain , which was introduced in 1811 , could be stowed in a small damp locker and so it can almost be said that chain cleared the space needed below for engines and coal bunkers . |
| 3 | Similar programmes could be developed in a chemistry or physics context . |
| 4 | The government therefore took its stand on the position that the confidentiality rule operated between members of the Cabinet and in the general context of a minister 's official duties , and that it could be invoked in a court of law to restrain revelations of Cabinet and other official discussions . |
| 5 | The panel accepted the social work argument that if there was a high degree of Social Work input to the family home , and that if Jim could be placed in a new school for his remaining few months of statutory attendance , then this might be the most suitable response . |
| 6 | Generic substitution could be achieved in a number of ways . |
| 7 | This could be achieved in a number of ways , for example by establishing a business centre or by nominating one person as head of business services , at the discretion of individual establishments . |
| 8 | They are general in nature in that they indicate broad areas of content and could be achieved in a variety of ways . |
| 9 | There are always any number of questions which could be asked in a survey because they seem ‘ interesting ’ ; but interest is not enough . |
| 10 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 11 | What was more disturbing , and could never be truly exorcised , was the way a whole history of friendship , a lifetime of amity , could be nullified in a moment . |
| 12 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 13 | Their view of women as solutions to the Hobbesian problem of order repeated values dominant in America in the early years of this century , according to which oppression by sex , colour or class could be justified in a laissezfaire , utilitarian philosophy of human relationships . |
| 14 | It was recognized that groups of artefacts , such as pots , could be arranged in a sequence according to these changes . |
| 15 | A big pie was not something that could be made in a field and cooked on a bonfire , it would require skill and expertise in the use of large ovens and these were available as they were used by the local manufacturers of earthenware pipes : |
| 16 | A body section could be made in a standard four-ply small pattern stitch , possibly a tiny tuck pattern , cast off straight at the underarms , with a woven pattern used for the yoke and sleeves . |
| 17 | Editor , — Though we agree with Fritz H Schröder that some of the intriguing scientific questions about the natural course of prostatic cancer could be answered in a randomised controlled trial of screening , we are concerned that the possible adverse effects of screening may be arguments against such an exercise . |
| 18 | It could be cycled in a prolonged dry spell but most of the year it was waterlogged , its condition made worse by the horses from the riding school attached to the farm at the bottom end . |
| 19 | Knowledge about the harmful consequences of smoking could be maintained in a low key manner through the school curriculum . |
| 20 | The curds could be pulled away from the edge of the vat , in the same way as a cooked Victoria sandwich can be lightly pulled away from the edge of a cake tin , and the curd could be cut in a straight line with a finger . |
| 21 | At one level bank notes could be sent in a parcel to the American exporter . |
| 22 | The presumption was that there were certain universals of social organization , functions that could be recognized in a variety of cultural forms ; myths , kinship orders , etc . |
| 23 | Here , it is natural to think in terms of the institutionalization of a disposition which could be displayed in a simpler form pre-culturally . |
| 24 | The figures could be displayed in a specified graphical format OR a separate print-out made for each representative including only relevant cells . |
| 25 | Devlin 's argument is that ‘ exploitation ’ and ‘ corruption ’ are such nebulous terms that almost any field of morality could be defined in a way to allow at least the theoretical intervention of the law . |
| 26 | Welfare rights services , for example could be defined in a variety of ways which may not make them readily understandable . |
| 27 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
| 28 | But , like the National Health Service , education could be seen in a different light . |
| 29 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 30 | Psychoanalysis 's relationship to psychology could be seen in a similar way . |