Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the drive to impose an appearance of order on the world , nineteenth-century science created a vast body of numerical information all carefully arranged so that geographical variations could be ascertained at a glance . |
| 2 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 3 | Kessel ( 1965 ) has suggested a limit to the amount of tablets that could be dispensed at a given time , and in some areas chemist shop assistants are instructed to refer customers to senior staff when large amounts of tablets are being requested . |
| 4 | This version of a marketable discharge licence process employs a national airshed , but it could be applied at a state or local level and for other pollutants in the future . |
| 5 | There 's the kind of repair and maintenance bit , which really could be handled at a more divisional level . |
| 6 | Products were shown individually and in room settings with the complete new collection showcased on the right-hand pages so that all the designs and colours could be seen at a glance . |
| 7 | Cray Research Inc is expected to ship its first massively parallel processor , due in the second half of 1993 , in configurations with up to 1,024 Alpha processing nodes , hears Electronic News : indeed ‘ several thousand ’ processors could be supported at a customer 's request . |
| 8 | Regardless of the pit closure programme ta erm we 're in full flight erm at the end of the day we could be looking at a situation with four pits remaining in Nottinghamshire er and to that extent there 'll be up to four thousand miners still reliant on the services of , should er remain open . |
| 9 | He could be looking at a device which at any moment could be activated by a radio-operated switch . |
| 10 | You could be looking at a minimum of one , two , three years ' salary , because you might be thinking well at least that 'll give me a chance to get on , to get back on my feet . |
| 11 | Next Saturday the big race is the Guinness Champion Stakes at Leopardstown and with Market Booster in the field we could be looking at a future star . |
| 12 | If David Cork carries on playing like that , then he could be looking at a new contract instead of being on the transfer list . |
| 13 | Harrods Library , which had an extensive clientele , used to publish long lists of ex-library books which could be bought at a third of the price when new , or less if rebound for library use . |
| 14 | The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks . |
| 15 | We have already mentioned that woodland could be located at a distance from the settlement , as only infrequent visits needed to be made . |
| 16 | Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value . |
| 17 | Another complaint was the waste of police time in court , but by a relatively straightforward change in the law — to allow certain evidence to be produced by sworn statement without the witness having to appear personally — it could be eliminated at a stroke . |
| 18 | The computer could be used to rescale the image pixel values so that the lowest value in the image ( 25 ) was interpolated onto the lowest value that the display system could accommodate ( 0 ) while the highest value in the raw image ( 90 ) was mapped to the maximum value that could be held at a pixel point in the image memory bank ( 255 ) . |
| 19 | If therefore the waters of the sea showed no signs of depletion of fish , an increased supply could be produced at a lower price after a time sufficiently long to enable the normal action of economic causes to work itself out . [ … ] |
| 20 | One justification often advanced for local government is the opportunity thus presented for wider sections of the population to become involved in political responsibilities than could be accommodated at a national level . |
| 21 | They therefore recommended that AEA should be encouraged to push the government restrictions ( for example , AEA is not allowed to manufacture non-nuclear products ) to the limits and then , if successful , the restrictions could be removed at a later stage . |
| 22 | Perhaps one of the best examples of that , could be found at a recent tournament , where , after suffering considerable pain during a match , she declined the soothing comforts of an ice pack in the clubhouse . |
| 23 | The treaty could be signed at a UN conference on the environment and development in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , in 1992 . |
| 24 | The companies also profited from a bizarre system whereby shipbuilders who exported were given import quotas for raw sugar , which could be sold at a hefty profit . |
| 25 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 26 | 144 , it was ruled that the somewhat similar provision in the English Act of 1910 against adjourning for over a month struck only at the consideration of new business and that matters before the court at the general or adjourned meeting could be considered at a further adjournment out with the month . |
| 27 | 144 , it was ruled that the somewhat similar prohibition in the English Act of 1910 against adjourning for over a month struck only at consideration of new business , and that matters before the court at the general or adjourned meeting could be considered at a further adjournment outwith the month . |
| 28 | It would seem an appropriate forum in which the issue of mountain bikes could be considered at a strategic policy level . |
| 29 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
| 30 | It might be held so that this currency in turn could be used at a later date to make foreign purchases of goods or services , a method often used to hedge exchange risk . |