Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack did not like strangers in the house , so there was no regular charwoman , only the obliging person who could be summoned at intervals when Jack was away . |
| 2 | It is important that this form is completed accurately ; if you fail to do so and , in particular , if you conceal any medical condition which could affect your work , your continued employment could be placed at risk . |
| 3 | Put simply , £100 received today could be invested at 10% per annum and so be worth £110 next year compared with the £100 received then . |
| 4 | Cake boards or cards could be made at home from thick card and foil . |
| 5 | A spokeswoman for New Careers said no comment could be made at present . |
| 6 | A spokeswoman for New Careers said no comment could be made at present . |
| 7 | The situation would of course be different if a method eventually became available whereby the sex of the offspring could be selected at conception . |
| 8 | The four-kilometre ( 2-mile ) wide corridor would be opened for five days from Tuesday , SRNA said , adding that the time limit could be extended at Unprofor 's request . |
| 9 | Much the same pressures could be seen at work , in a less decorous way , in North America . |
| 10 | The work of both painters could be seen at Kahnweiler 's gallery in the rue Vignon and at the small private gallery run by Uhde . |
| 11 | Although he could be seen at rehearsals of his shows in small English towns , Tiller was an international name now . |
| 12 | He visited Edinburgh , saw what they were doing there , liked it and decided to see whether it could be done at Sussex and approached the university through the Bi-Medical Engineering Group , of which I 'm a member , and I was interested . |
| 13 | Could be done at M S one |
| 14 | After this shattering denouement there seemed little more that could be done at Bonsmoulins . |
| 15 | A farrier could be heard at work in an empty box on the north side and the smell of singeing hoof wafted across the yard . |
| 16 | Everybody then had the right to make erm protests against this and could be heard at Cambridge , protesting about fare increases . |
| 17 | But a three-point plan for Mersey Ferries does create hopes that a new jetty could be built at New Brighton for cruise vessels to berth . |
| 18 | The future or rather fate of Gloucester rugby club could be decided at Bristol tomorrow … there are two league games to go and the cherry and whites need to win one of them to escape relegation |
| 19 | For example , fire risk clients could be sustained at home if they had 24-hour-a-day surveillance . |
| 20 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
| 21 | Even if the Hungarians or the Turks could be kept at bay , there was also the threat of piracy to be met . |
| 22 | One 's natural sense of inadequacy could be kept at bay only by pious acts of repeated successfulness . |
| 23 | Their disruptive behaviour was proving a headache to Mr Jones until he discovered the elephants could be kept at bay if he fed them with their favourite fruit pears . |
| 24 | A new canvass system was introduced in 1911 so that all county constituencies would operate the same system and so that duplicate records could be kept at area level . |
| 25 | By the early part of the 20th century it had been discovered that by using an iron catalyst , hydrogen and nitrogen could be reacted at 400°C and at more than 100 atmospheres of pressure to create ammonia . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the fact that these bound states arose from the well-defined N = 8 theory should enable us to make a number of predictions that could be tested at energies that are accessible now or will be in the near future . |
| 27 | The circular note could be cashed at hotels with which Cook had arrangements and a limited number of banks and bureaux de change . |
| 28 | JOBS for 100 engineers could be created at NEI Parsons , Newcastle after they won a £100m order . |
| 29 | Wherever possible , jobs could be created at localities of most need , but a greater worker mobility than has been displayed in the past should be expected , and where it is not obtained , financial restrictions should be exerted to encourage fit , able but reluctant people to move from the old , worked-out pockets of industry to new opportunities elsewhere . |
| 30 | An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes . |