Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet by the summer of 1922 , when recovery was in sight , the slightest advantage of one peasant over another could be manipulated to gain quick and large profits . |
| 2 | a ) Entry to the Profession — a number of respondents , including some local law societies , wondered if admissions policy could be tightened to screen potential entrants to the profession more effectively . |
| 3 | Some can develop higher order thinking in a highly constructive way — for instance pupils could be asked to compare two features that are not adjacent to each other , but are found in different parts of the building . |
| 4 | If the person dies at home , the district nurse could be asked to complete last offices , or the family may wish to do so . |
| 5 | Shelf 4 of bay E could be designated to hold all the histories of England likely to be added to stock during the next hundred years or more . |
| 6 | Of paramount importance were Paracelsus 's conception of disease as a specific entity , taking up its residence in localised sites and possessing a distinct natural course , and the hypothesis that a specific remedy could be applied to counteract such an intrusion . |
| 7 | An attempt could be made to reverse this by increasing the dietary intake of vitamin C , but we have shown in a region of Venezuela with a high incidence of gastric cancer that oral vitamin C supplementation alone is insufficient to increase gastric juice ascorbate concentrations in the presence of H pylori infection . |
| 8 | There are two obvious moves which could be made to counter this argument . |
| 9 | The Mezey Report ( as the review became known after its principal author ) suggested that cautious progress toward rationalization of mental hospital beds could be made to allow two of the six hospitals to close . |
| 10 | At subsequent meetings efforts could be made to reduce this quota further . |
| 11 | Japanese policy everywhere was governed by one overriding consideration , namely the degree to which a country could be made to provide political and economic support for Japan 's war effort . |
| 12 | If Saddam Hussein or Colonel Qaddaffi were bidding for control of a firm that employs 130,000 people , makes explosives and could be made to make chemical weapons , that would be reason for concern . |
| 13 | If it was considered that a parent was fabricating symptoms and manipulating recorded data a decision could be made to discuss this with the parent and family doctor . |
| 14 | Writing from the heart is the recommendation of a muse who could be seeking to make such writing a legitimate part of poetry , an activity which takes place under the muse 's control . |
| 15 | For example , the estimator and standard price books use a common labour constant for brickwork ; in practice the labour constant could be adjusted to provide different targets for , say , work at ground level and work in the gables . |
| 16 | If the biscuits coming through were each rather heavy then the machine could be adjusted to wrap fewer biscuits per pack . |
| 17 | In the early part of the twentieth century very little was known about the chronology of tribal art ( most of it was considered to be much older than it is ) , and the stylistic differences between the work of various regions had not been examined ; Guillaume himself included Oceanic work under the term tribal art , and felt that it could be extended to include Alaskan art as well . |
| 18 | This test could be extended to include statistical analysis of manufacturing accuracy to associate a weighting against the envelope of certainty thus enabling confidence limits to be established , and the correct combination of tolerances specified . |
| 19 | It could be extended to include any other form of powerful therapy . |
| 20 | The system will initially log calls of 35,000 workers , but could be extended to cover all 500,000 civil servants . |
| 21 | This argument about the policy aspects of regionalism could be extended to cover different theoretical approaches to the basket of problems to which we have been referring . |
| 22 | Such a procedure could be extended to provide full spatial and functional modelling . |
| 23 | The list could be expanded to incorporate any treaty which provides for mutuality , reciprocity , or where the personal identity of the other party is important , for then , by definition the parties can not have intended to allow assignment . |
| 24 | France suggested Mr Yeltsin 's April summit with the US president , Bill Clinton , could be expanded to include other G7 leaders but other member states , particularly Germany and Japan were doubtful this would take place . |
| 25 | The words and such further ancillary rights that arise under the general law or by necessary implication should be included and could be expanded to include ancillary rights that arise by necessity |
| 26 | It could be expanded to cover other examples , both within and across jurisdictions . |
| 27 | For example , the crime of rape could be expanded to cover other acts of sexual penetration . |
| 28 | It could be expanded to cover certain forms of oral sex as well as vaginal and anal penetration by objects or parts of the body and could be rendered gender neutral . |
| 29 | The ‘ limited ’ intrusion of ‘ strict liability ’ into criminal law could be expanded to cover more and more corporate behaviour so that the issue of responsibility and intention becomes subsidiary to the more pressing need to compensate victims and make the offending corporation foot the bill . |
| 30 | Instead of developing careful analytical thinking , the staff could be instructed to introduce closed didactic procedures that are heavily information-driven . |