Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For not only was the papacy 's practical influence severely circumscribed by schism , and the development of its governmental powers halted , but no theory of papal power could be developed with two contenders for St Peter 's chair . |
| 2 | There are also hopes that a live trade in slaughter cattle could be developed with other EC countries over 1994 — just as has already taken place with slaughter lambs to France . |
| 3 | Thus these case roles could be filled with nonsensical objects such as ’ sincerity ’ or ’ steam ’ ; i.e. , one could say ’ steam collided with sincerity ’ . |
| 4 | So what would be the worst possible picture we could be faced with next year ? |
| 5 | The prey could be placed with regular spacing , or at random , or clumped in groups . |
| 6 | We have publicly stated that we believe the Government should address this issue sooner rather than later and have suggested that a flexible approach to State pension age could be achieved with little additional cost to the State . |
| 7 | The manufacturer estimates that break-even point could be achieved with 14 meals per day . |
| 8 | It includes assets which could be converted with relative ease and without capital loss into spending on goods and services . |
| 9 | To the mediaeval mind , ‘ game ’ stood in antithesis to ‘ earnestness ’ , and so what took place on the pageant cart could be equated with other street pastimes . |
| 10 | Initially , they were filled with slate dust , so they could be played with ordinary heavyweight pickups . |
| 11 | These examples of catalogues containing helpful art criticism could be contrasted with many others which are limited to lists of exhibitions , details of the artist 's career , and entries for the works displayed . |
| 12 | To supplement the natural barrier provided by the marshes themselves , ditches were constructed that could be flooded with giant pumps and even electrified , to create what was described by the Guardian 's correspondent as a ‘ giant moat ’ and by the Iraqi corps commander of the area as a ‘ fish trap ’ . |
| 13 | For instance , Swordfish Pilaki could easily be made with halibut or cod and the Tuna Tortiglioni could be made with any other fish or indeed some ham cut into pieces . |
| 14 | Mr Davies ' remarks can be interpreted in two ways : the public expression of a maverick opinion , in the manner of Bill Cash or Ivan Lawrence ; or he could be acting with covert government backing as a kind of stalking horse to gauge the reaction from MPs , and the public , to his suggestion . |
| 15 | In July 1922 , the Company enquired whether either of the other two companies had any covered top cars to spare , which they could borrow , to see if their own cars could be fitted with top covers . |
| 16 | Supporters could be rewarded with favourable tax assessments or the renewal of public-house licences . |
| 17 | Many similar examples could be constructed with other vowels ; some possibilities may be suggested by the list of words given in 9.2 to show the different spellings that can be pronounced with . |
| 18 | But it was his experience as a Sunday-school teacher which left him wondering how discipline could be maintained with older boys and how they could be kept in touch with the Church once they became wage-earners and left the Sunday school . |
| 19 | After the war , plastic-based iron-oxide tape could be cut with non-magnetic scissors ( or even a razor-blade ) , and either welded with cement or stuck with adhesive tape ( 23 ) . |
| 20 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 21 | The situation in Norway could be compared with that in Wester Ross , North Wales and , to a lesser extent , North Yorkshire . |
| 22 | In both those cases the express words used and the relevant clause could be compared with other express words used elsewhere . |
| 23 | This independence of knowledge sources during processing meant that the lexical access component could be directed to any part of the phoneme graph , and thus left to right strategies as used in HARPY could be compared with island-driving strategies which began anywhere along the time dimension of the search space . |
| 24 | You could then make up some sentences in which AH could be compared with another long vowel , say AW , like this : |
| 25 | Fiah was perhaps the only African in Tanganyika who could be compared with those behind West Africa 's press of the same period , men like Akikiwe , Danquah and Jackson . |
| 26 | In this way the restorative effects of sleep without Stage REM could be compared with those of sleep without Stage 4 . |
| 27 | This approach could be explored with other sorts of literature . |
| 28 | " The Origins of the English Civil War " , could be noted with political factors written or shaded in blue , religious factors in red , economic in green , and so forth . |
| 29 | A , the judge did not explain the use of seven as a multiplier but it not suggested that such a calculation could be done with complete accuracy and using a five percent table , the judge was faced with choosing between seven and eight . |
| 30 | It is much less usual to examine something to see what else could be done with that position , how else the resources could be used . |