Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This issue could be developed into a more general consideration of whether police officers should be subject to more stringent codes or rules of behaviour than other people in society , given their position of authority ) . |
| 2 | They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme . |
| 3 | A study of a small series of sixth-century , square-headed , brooches showed how the various brooches could be placed into a sequence because of the interchange of parts of the decoration on them . |
| 4 | ‘ Her eyesight 's not too good now , ’ she continued , as though that might somehow render her mother 's behaviour less odd , as though by mere words she could be converted into a harmless , ordinary , ageing old lady , just like other people 's mothers . |
| 5 | This could be converted into a worldwide trip , so Roland went on to the ‘ Hot Spot ’ to try and get around the world in 80 seconds answering as many questions as possible . |
| 6 | A vandalised chapel in Barnard Castle , the suspected haunt of devil worshippers , could be converted into a stonemason 's workshop and studio . |
| 7 | In his attempt to construct a model of the molecule , given the valencies of these two elements , there was no obvious way that the twelve atoms could be arranged into a conventional chain , and he had been wrestling with the problem for quite some time . |
| 8 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
| 9 | A timely point and one which could be made into a test of this kind of narrative by which an author may be seen to have succeeded or failed to create the necessary suspension of disbelief . |
| 10 | But it could be made into a poster . |
| 11 | If all this seems somewhat esoteric , the Jain parable of the Blind men and the elephant , which is given in Chapter 13 , could be made into a similar diagram , and other examples then worked through such as " getting to know about " a work of art , an event , a person , a culture . |
| 12 | fix a roof on it it could be made into a very attractive rural type property , it it 's typical of the kind of property which in a village we 're dying for |
| 13 | Forty-eight was the maximum number of matches that could be fitted into a day . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ There 's a suspicion that we could be getting into a mess . |
| 15 | The difference between the fragmentation described by Braverman and that analysed by Stone is that the former came about in order to de-skill and control through Tayloristic practices , while the latter came about partly in order to create a range of jobs which could be formed into a job ladder . |
| 16 | This of course is a situation in which the direct labour of family members was needed , and could be incorporated into a strategy for collective survival . |
| 17 | Whether such complex formal procedures could be incorporated into a graduated test scheme seems doubtful ; the few existing schemes in Britain make use of less formal teacher judgement , within guidelines from the central development team , or laid down criterion scores in tests . |
| 18 | And it is just possible that Western ideas in psychiatry could be incorporated into a relativity model . |
| 19 | This , in turn , allowed Adobe , a company founded by two ex-Xerox PARC researchers , to turn their PostScript page description language into a marketable product that could be built into a page printer . |
| 20 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 21 | It was a bit extreme , perhaps , but in his present predicament the fault could be turned into a virtue . |
| 22 | The investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales could be turned into a perfect television event , and they recommended in addition that he be made available for radio and television interviews . |
| 23 | In July Burmin went on the offensive by issuing a circular on myths and facts relating to the mining , which suggested that gold mining could be turned into a tourist attraction , said no cyanide spills would take place , the visual impact on Croagh Patrick would be minimal and the Church was not opposed to the mining . |
| 24 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 25 | A former fish restaurant in Darlington town centre could be turned into a pub and office complex after standing empty for three years . |
| 26 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 27 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 28 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 29 | The current range of design drafting and production engineering programs could be integrated into a scheme to provide a refinement-centred system . |
| 30 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |